[lbo-talk] Juan Cole: Emmanuel Rahm deserves some slack on Israel

[SA]

Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, SA wrote:
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>> Here's something taken almost at random from Peace Now's "positions" 
>> page. Is this something you could picture Rahm saying?
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> Sure.  The essence is that the fence steals too much land and causes 
> more bad blood that is necessary. That's pure Peace Now for better or 
> worse and exactly Rahm's kind of thing.  There's a couple of words 
> there he wouldn't use.  But their just decoraation to make Peace Now 
> sound more radical than it is.  The position would be the same.

You think Rahm Emanuel would publicly declare that the route of Israel's 
fence is unacceptable because it leads to the annexation of Palestinian 
territory? Are we talking about the same guy?

SA