Good Morning to the Israeli Left

Haaretz ^ | Febryary 13, 2005 | Gideon Levy

[lsilver5]

Good morning to the Israeli left By Gideon Levy

Good morning to the Israeli left. After an eternally long hibernation, we are starting to hear the sounds of its awakening. Only when the wind is once again blowing in its direction - and not because of anything it did - does the extra-parliamentary left dare to come out of the closet where it locked itself up more than four years ago. Perhaps one should welcome these signs of awakening, but it is impossible not to hold it accountable for its lengthy, disgraceful and cowardly silence that abandoned the street to the right and the settlers. For more than four years Israel has been doing anything it wanted in the occupied areas, practically without any domestic criticism. It killed and demolished, uprooted and brutalized, and practically nobody protested. The world saw what was going on and shouted about it. But not us. When Israel desperately needed an alternative view, a clear sound of protest, practically nothing was heard, not a peep, except from a few small and brave organizations.

So it is difficult to forgive those who were silent, looked away and wrapped themselves in indifference, thus depicting Israel as monolithically supporting the government. The rustling noises that are beginning to be heard from the Zionist left are too late to clear it of its responsibility: With its silence until now it became a partner to all the government did during those damnable years. With the evaporation of the Labor Party and the fear and impotence that gripped the other bodies of the Zionist left, the only active element in society was the settlers. Thus the government managed to continue its brutal policies and the settlers nurtured their enterprise without disruption.

[lsilver5]

This guy is goony. Israel has stood alone, batteling for its survival against the entire world of Islam and now the West (Europe and the U.S. left). If the settlements are abandoned, the game is lost, and the tiny bastion of sanity in the Middle East will become a depository for camel dung. When will they ever learn to recognize the enemy? In this case, it is the self-hating leftist Jews, traitors to the richous cause of fighting the cancer endemic to Islam.

[American in Israel]

I saw the black hands out again demonstration to "end the occupation". I agree with them, Israel should send the Arabs back to Arabia.

Somehow in Israels blackest hour, these people show up to kick them when they are down.

[anotherview]

I think you may be "goony", whatever that is. Abandoning indefensible, isolated towns that are home to 8,500 Israelis in the midst of 2 million hostile Arabs and redeploying to a defensible line will save Jewish lives. Fence the Palestinians in, cut off all services we Israelis provide, and let them rot. The only thing we need to hold is the Philadelphia Road along the Egyptian border to prevent arms smuggling. The settlements in Gaza should never have been buit.

[sarah_f]

And this is only phase one of the saudi plan (roadmap).

Killing Jews works.

It gets you concessions, land, freed terrorist prisoners, hundreds of millions in cash, and your own country.