[lbo-talk] a new CW?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 8 08:04:09 PST 2009


[from Mike Allen]

Time cover – 'Why Israel Can't Win: The siege of Gaza may punish Hamas, but it won't make Israel safe. Why it is in peril like never before,' by Tim McGirk/Jerusalem: 'A new Administration in Washington has a chance to be both supportive of Israel and honest with it. Over the past three years, many Israelis have told me that President George W. Bush was too good a friend of theirs. He gave Israelis all they wanted but didn't rein them in when they needed it. Israel eventually will have to pull back to the 1967 borders and dismantle many of the settlements on the Palestinian side, no matter how loudly its ultra- religious parties protest. Only then will the Palestinians and the other Arab states agree to a durable peace. It's as simple as that. But for 60 years, in the Holy Land, there has been a yawning gap between what was simple and what could be achieved.'



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