…perfect justice, Kirsch argues, would mean restoring the Land of Israel to the Jews who were driven out of it by the Romans and also to the Palestinian Arabs who have been denied sovereignty by the Jews. “But any attempt to secure the country for just one of these peoples would inflict suffering on millions…”
With the permission of the Jewish Review of Books, TTN is posting in two parts, “Unsettling Ideology,” Michael Walzer’s review of Adam Kirsch’s book, “On Settler Colonialism,” published in its Fall 2024 issue, beginning here.
2024 represents yet more descent down the slippery slope toward a conflicted, non-democratic, immoral, isolated, messianic and binational entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Yet … Israel’s security community registered dramatic victories over Iran, Hezbollah and almost the entire Axis of Resistance or Shiite Crescent.
… the Biden administration has wanted both to support Israel at a genuine hour of need and to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Gaza. This proved insufficient given the nature of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s extremist coalition government and the fanatical nature of Hamas, which is singularly indifferent to the suffering of its people.
Bringing Arabs & Jews together is a rebuke to rejectionists on university campuses & social media. BDS added Standing Together to its boycott list, damning it for “normalizing” interactions with Israeli Jews—a threat to sclerotic orthodoxies of left & right, alike.
Despite my disagreement with some of Prof. Khalidi’s views, I appreciate his anguish over the ongoing suffering of his people, and hope against hope that they and the people of Israel will emerge from their mutual horrors with a two-state peace.
A veteran Palestinian activist embraces the Olmert/al-Kidwa plan for a two state solution. He outlines a key need for both Israelis and Palestinians to “gain control over their violent tendencies.”
An unofficial agreement between Israel’s one-time prime minister and an ex-foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority broadly outlines what a two-state peace agreement could look like.
Transcript and video recording of the DNC speech of the parents of an American hostage in Gaza. The video includes the supportive emotional reaction of the Convention audience.
While the world has been focusing on the Gaza war, Israel’s right-wing government has taken alarming new steps to expand West Bank settlements and their infrastructure.
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