[lbo-talk] Israel is heading for disaster

[uvj at vsnl.com]

LRB

Vol. 26 No. 9

dated 6 May 2004

As long as the plan contains the magic term 'withdrawal', it is seen as a
good thing

Ilan Pappe warns that Israel is heading for disaster

The day after the assassination in Gaza of the Hamas leader, Abdel Aziz
al-Rantissi, Yuval Steinitz was interviewed on Israeli radio. Steinitz is
the Likud chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in the
Knesset. Before that he taught Western philosophy at the University of
Haifa, where his epistemological world-view was shaped by romantic
nationalists such as Gobineau and Fichte, who stressed purity of race as a
precondition for national excellence. The translation of these European
notions of racial superiority to Israel became evident as soon as the
interviewer asked him about the government's plans for the remaining
Palestinian leaders. Interviewer and interviewee giggled and agreed that the
policy will be, as it should be, the assassination or expulsion of the
entire current leadership: namely, all the members of the Palestinian
Authority - about forty thousand people. 'I am so happy,' Steinitz said,
'that the Americans have finally come to their senses and are fully
supporting our policies.'
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