Walter Lippman was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a liberal public intellectual. Would Mr. Atkinson please explain why he regards him as one of those "evil fabulists" he's listed?
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Although Louis Nayman is trying to deal fairly with both sides in this article, I was somewhat unsettled by it. He understands that his Israeli cousins have real grievances, but these come off mostly as expressions of prejudice rather than disappointment at Israel's failed peace effort in the 1990s or the way in which withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza backfired against Israel. I also don't agree with his conclusions toward the end. I don't believe, for example, in "a collective [Israeli] responsibility for Palestinian displacement as a result of the 1948 war...." It was the Palestinian leadership's violent rejection of the …
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Dear Cabbie, In spirit, I think, there's much we can agree about. But I just noticed your last paragraph about the Talmud. How could the Talmud, compiled over 1500 years ago, have forbidden Zionism, a movement and ideology that rose about 1400 years later? I know that a majority among both Reform and Orthodox Jews opposed Zionism until the full reality of the Jewish condition in the wake of the Holocaust was understood. Up until that time--and probably until the late 1960s--Zionism was overwhelmingly secular, and also mostly left-wing in both its support and its domestic orientation.
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In the case of the League of Nations Mandate of Palestine, there was only the temporary sovereign authority of Britain, which surrendered it to the United Nations in 1947. The UN then voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab-majority states. The PLO didn't even exist until 1964, 16 years after most of the world recognized Israel's independence. The Talmudic tradition involves an ongoing debate over the generations, which allows contemporary religious authorities to comment upon and even interpret the law. Most Jewish religious authorities today accept the legitimacy of Jewish sovereignty in the modern State of Israel. In fact, the …
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Noam Chomsky forthrightly advocates a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. This does not excuse his totally one-sided view of the conflict. He indicates that the Israelis broke the ceasefire in November 2008 but does not mention why. They noticed a tunnel being built from Gaza to the Israeli side; this was the same tactic used when Hamas infiltrated Israel a couple of years before to kill two soldiers and capture a third on the Israeli side. In retaliation for destroying the tunnel, Hamas launched heavy rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns and cities. It was to silence this …
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