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[yvonne simmons]

from muzzlewatch
Amy Goodman asked Israeli newspaper Haaretz’s top
political columnist Akiva Eldar how “the so-called
“Israel lobby” in the United States is perceived in
Israel.” In an interview aired yesterday:

They are a very important instrument in order to
pursue Israel’s policy, but I’m afraid that they’re a
little bit behind the Israeli government and the
Israeli people. We are in a different mode, which I
think takes time for the American Jewish organizations
to digest, the fact that we don’t want to keep those
territories. And probably the Israeli propaganda was
so efficient that it’s very hard now to change the
mode and to convince them that it’s a different era
now. It’s a different government. We have seventy out
of 120 members of the Knesset who support a two-state
solution based on the ’67 lines. And, you know, if for
forty years, you tell the Jewish community that Israel
cannot afford to give up the territories, they are
important for Israel’s security, just overnight to
tell, “Sorry, we were wrong. Now, we don’t need those
territories,” it’s probably –

And while the Zionism litmus test gets employed in
increasingly crude ways here in the US, Gershon Baskin
of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and
Information writes in Foreign Policy in Focus :

The majority of Israelis, like me, can no longer use
the term “Zionist” to define what we believe in.
“Zionism” has been hijacked by the movement of
settlers who have built hundreds of settlements in the
West Bank and are the primary obstacle to making peace
with our Palestinian neighbors on the basis of the
two-states-for-two-people solution. As I’ve argued in
The Jerusalem Post, we need a new definition. We need
a neo-Zionism.



       
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