> The US Democrats and the Israeli centre-left want an end to the
> destabilizing occupation of the West Bank and favour the establishment of a
> weak, shrunken, and demilitarized Palestinian state which is economically
> and in all other ways dependent on Israel.
Or so they say. But as best I recall, the settlements have grown steadily ever since '67, no matter who was in power in Israel or Washington.Neither the Democrats nor the Israeli "center-left" -- if such a thing still exists -- have ever made any real attempt to put on the brakes.
It looks to me like the difference between the mad-dogs and the liberals is simply that the liberals are more hypocritical. They *talk* about a two-state solution but don't have any real interest in making it happen. In practice they leave the mad-dogs a loose rein and probably hope -- without quite admitting it, even to themselves -- that the mad-dogs make the problem go away.
That's a win-win. The liberals can tell themselves that their moral skirts are clean, since the Fascists will have done the actual dirty work. But the dirty work will nonetheless have been done.
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