The original Haaretz interview is no longer available on their website, but Counterpunch reproduced it:
http://www.counterpunch.org/shavit01162004.html
If the Levitt review upsets you, this interview will make you positively ill. Particularly if you're a fan of such books as Righteous Victims.
I've read the Levitt book - we got a copy at Tikkun for review. Its actually quite interesting, but nothing worth pimping like Morris' review does. Just another neocon publication on the Mid-East whose data is curious to check out, but whose moral trajectory is utterly deplorable.
So sad to read this review though. I was just working on putting together an anthology of Tikkun's coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict over the past twenty years. Morris used to write for us with some frequency when he was still a leftist.
The articles we published of his during the late eighties - until 1998 - were truly stunning pieces of progressive historiography. The irony is not lost on me that since his conversion, so to speak, he's become one of the New Republic's chief Israeli reps.
Joel
On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Willy Greenfields wrote:
>
> Wow. I know Morris had been moving rightward for some
> time. When did it accelerate? He was still very
> readable as recently as Righteous Victims.
>
> What is less duplicitous and open to negotiation:
> Hamas' platform or Bush's "emancipating" attack on
> Iraq (with the forseeable deaths of 10s/100s of
> thousands) carried out on the instruction of a
> Christian God?
>
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