Poor Israeli Doves, Forced to Live in Embarrassing Times

by Charles Lenchner · 2009-03-20 13:42:00 UTC
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Steven Salaita cracked me up with his sincere apology to Israeli liberals:

I woke up this morning with an abject pain in my soul. This pain has been nagging me lately, sometimes even preoccupying my moral sensibilities, especially since Israel tightened its economic stranglehold on the Gaza Strip and commenced a bombing campaign that killed over 1000 Palestinian civilians. I am an educated man; I read the appropriate progressive magazines, so I know just how hard this genocide has been on Israeli liberals.

That's Steven. You know, it really is hard. After all, those liberals thought that THEY were ultimately in charge of Israel's destiny. As though the thin layer of academics and cultural creatives had enough votes to matter.

I know it must be terribly difficult supporting an ethnonationalist state that wantonly slaughters little brown civilians. I know that it is excruciating to have democratic ideals disrupted by ungrateful natives. And I know how tough it must be to witness the death of other people’s children.

Thank heavens the television didn't display so many of those images.

Read more here: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/the-agonies-of-a-tortured-palestinian-soul/

On a slightly more serious note, I'm not in full agreement with his critique. Self centered and arrogant thought they often are, Israeli liberals are still better than the alternative.

Charles Lenchner
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