[lbo-talk] Opinion piece in Haaretz

joel schalit jschalit at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 23:21:57 PST 2011


Pardon me, Joseph, but this is silly. Your opinions are a lot closer to Levy than you realize. If you know his work better (you're really off) you'd back up a bit. I'm saying this not being a big fan of Levy's work, either.

Joel

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-egyptian-masses-won-t-play-ally-to-israel-1.340080
>>
>> Joanna
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