So says the hysterical Richard Cohen in the Washington Post, in the first (current) case of a Jewish pundit desperately trying to feed Israeli Jews to the crocodile in the hope that he will be eaten last.
It’s hard to pick out just one passage to quote, because there are so many extreme statements. I’ll go with this:
There is no point in condemning Hezbollah. Zealots are not amenable to reason. And there’s not much point, either, in condemning Hamas. It is a fetid, anti-Semitic outfit whose organizing principle is hatred of Israel. There is, though, a point in cautioning Israel to exercise restraint — not for the sake of its enemies but for itself. Whatever happens, Israel must not use its military might to win back what it has already chosen to lose: the buffer zone in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip itself.
Cohen’s precious advice is for the Israelis to withdraw and hunker down.
The smart choice is to pull back to defensible — but hardly impervious — borders. That includes getting out of most of the West Bank — and waiting (and hoping) that history will get distracted and move on to something else. This will take some time, and in the meantime terrorism and rocket attacks will continue.
Let someone else fisk this. It’s way past my bedtime.
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Feeding the Crocodiles…
We don’t normally condone letting sleep get in the way of a good fisk, but given it is Mr Infotainment, we will let him off. Richard Cohen in yesterday’s Washington Post needs someone with a big red marker pen:The smart choice (for Israel) is to pull…
As I said in on my blog, Cohen was not saying Israel should curl up and die, but that it should not reoccupy territory. He seems to be supporting the two state solution in saying this, although unless two states means one nation and one captive colony, the election of Hamas means that the two state solution is dead, dead, dead. The only way out is peace and the only way to peace is to actually behave as the Torah demands and not abuse the resident alien. In many blogs Cohen is accused of being a self-loathing Jew. While this seems a small issue, it is the heart of the matter. What is it to be a Jew. Is it to be a member of the tribe (in which case, I count through a paternal great-great-great grand father named Casper Fuchs)and committed to a tribal nation or is it to be an adherant to Judaism? Can one be both with a straight face?
Unfortunately, Michael, you’re asking the wrong person. I’m an atheist, not an adherent.
Hamas, Hezbollah, two-state solution—these are meaningless terms now. The entire landscape has changed, as has the game. This is far from over.
The Palestinians are by far the biggest losers. It is tragic.
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