[lbo-talk] Opinion piece in Haaretz

[Joseph Catron]

This article is pretty good at being what it is - the brand of liberal
Zionism that is Haaretz' bread and butter  - but no more. Notice the bait
and switch: How many times does it mention the occupation of '67 Palestine
as if that comprised the whole of Arab grievances against Zionism, rather
than one small part of them? As if no Palestinian struggle already existed
in 1967, when the Palestine Liberation Army hadn't already gone to war? As
if '48 Palestine contained not a single Palestinian (which does seem to be
the Zionist claim - notice their fondness for the phrase "Arab Israeli" -
except during their periodic attempts to complete the ethnic cleansing of
1948)? Or as if there were no refugees, much less a quarter of the West
Bank, three quarters of the Gaza Strip, and nearly the whole of the
diaspora?

None of which is to say that the article was particularly horrible, or that
nothing can be learned from it. But here's one recent NYT offering that
springs to mind, which I would rank head and shoulders above it (and given
time, I could probably think of more):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29abunimah.html

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:21 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> You won't see anything like this in the NYT.
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> http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-egyptian-masses-won-t-play-ally-to-israel-1.340080
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> Joanna
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