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01-21-2018, 08:13 PM
No response from widely respected Trump mideast peace specialist and anti-money laundering, anti-nepotism champion Jared Kushner yet:
After disturbing tour of Hebron, Roger Cohen takes a step away from Zionism
US Politics (http://mondoweiss.net/us-politics/) Philip Weiss (http://mondoweiss.net/author/philweiss/) on January 21, 2018
Yesterday in the New York Times, Roger Cohen published a column from Hebron titled “Holy City of Sterile Streets (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/hebron-israel-west-bank.html)” that lots of people are talking about, and which I see as distancing the columnist from Zionism: 1, It states bluntly that the Israeli goal of sterilizing Hebron streets by emptying them of Palestinians is reminiscent of anti-semitic rhetoric and actions; 2, It says the occupation has never ended and it is being done in the name of the Jews and is getting worse every time he sees it; 3, It urges people to put the disputed claims of the past behind them and look to the future.
The last message is a memo to Cohen himself. He has repeatedly cited the Jewish history of persecution to justify the existence of a “Jewish state” he chooses not to live in but to defend. That justification gets a lot slimmer in this piece. The Jewish history of persecution turns out to produce Jewish monsters. And Cohen surely recognizes that it is cruel to revisit such a place and only see the conditions get worse, and mouth liberal Zionist pieties as an answer.
Some excerpts. First, the endless occupation and the anti-Semitism echo:
The occupation of the West Bank is a half-century old. That’s a long time. Jews did not go to the Holy Land to deploy for another people the biological metaphors of classic racism that accompanied their persecution over centuries. But the exercise of overwhelming power is corrupting, to the point that “sterile” streets, presumably freed of disease-ridden natives, enter the lexicon.
Next, in this passage Cohen identifies the occupation as inherently “Jewish” in Zionist eyes, and rejects that strategy as oppressive.
[Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the Silence] remembers a mission statement on a wall: “To protect and defend the inhabitants of the Jewish community of Hebron.” He was ordered to fire a grenade machine gun into a heavily populated Palestinian residential area. He saw a Palestinian medical clinic destroyed. Doubts grew.
“It’s not defense, or prevention. It’s offense against Palestinian independence. That is the mission,” Shaul says. “The view is that between the river and the sea there is room for one state only, so it better be us.” Inevitably, the settlers, however extreme, become a vehicle of this strategic aim.
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/disturbing-hebron-zionism/
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Trump: I’ll be ‘neutral’ on Israel and Palestine
By Mark Hensch - 02/17/16
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269806-trump-ill-be-neutral-on-israel-and-palestine
After disturbing tour of Hebron, Roger Cohen takes a step away from Zionism
US Politics (http://mondoweiss.net/us-politics/) Philip Weiss (http://mondoweiss.net/author/philweiss/) on January 21, 2018
Yesterday in the New York Times, Roger Cohen published a column from Hebron titled “Holy City of Sterile Streets (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/hebron-israel-west-bank.html)” that lots of people are talking about, and which I see as distancing the columnist from Zionism: 1, It states bluntly that the Israeli goal of sterilizing Hebron streets by emptying them of Palestinians is reminiscent of anti-semitic rhetoric and actions; 2, It says the occupation has never ended and it is being done in the name of the Jews and is getting worse every time he sees it; 3, It urges people to put the disputed claims of the past behind them and look to the future.
The last message is a memo to Cohen himself. He has repeatedly cited the Jewish history of persecution to justify the existence of a “Jewish state” he chooses not to live in but to defend. That justification gets a lot slimmer in this piece. The Jewish history of persecution turns out to produce Jewish monsters. And Cohen surely recognizes that it is cruel to revisit such a place and only see the conditions get worse, and mouth liberal Zionist pieties as an answer.
Some excerpts. First, the endless occupation and the anti-Semitism echo:
The occupation of the West Bank is a half-century old. That’s a long time. Jews did not go to the Holy Land to deploy for another people the biological metaphors of classic racism that accompanied their persecution over centuries. But the exercise of overwhelming power is corrupting, to the point that “sterile” streets, presumably freed of disease-ridden natives, enter the lexicon.
Next, in this passage Cohen identifies the occupation as inherently “Jewish” in Zionist eyes, and rejects that strategy as oppressive.
[Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the Silence] remembers a mission statement on a wall: “To protect and defend the inhabitants of the Jewish community of Hebron.” He was ordered to fire a grenade machine gun into a heavily populated Palestinian residential area. He saw a Palestinian medical clinic destroyed. Doubts grew.
“It’s not defense, or prevention. It’s offense against Palestinian independence. That is the mission,” Shaul says. “The view is that between the river and the sea there is room for one state only, so it better be us.” Inevitably, the settlers, however extreme, become a vehicle of this strategic aim.
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/disturbing-hebron-zionism/
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Trump: I’ll be ‘neutral’ on Israel and Palestine
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269806-trump-ill-be-neutral-on-israel-and-palestine