What Israel's Left really wants
What does Israel's Left really want? I think Caroline Glick has nailed it. What do they really want?Read the whole thing.
The answer to this last question is as simple as it is insidious. What the Left truly seeks is not peace or even security. In pushing their land surrender policy in the face of a mountain of evidence that it imperils the country, leftist ideologues and political leaders are seeking to destroy their ideological rivals on the Right. That is, they wish to destroy religious Zionism.
It is religious Zionism, which looks to Jerusalem rather than to Tel Aviv, that drives the Left to distraction. It is the hope of destroying religious Zionism by destroying the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem - the Jewish nerve center of the country - that keeps the Left on its path. This truth was exposed in a Haaretz editorial published in July 2005, a month before 10,000 predominantly religious Israelis were expelled from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.
As the Left's mouthpiece explained, "The disengagement of Israeli policy from its religious fuel is the real disengagement currently on the agenda. On the day after the disengagement, religious Zionism's status will be different."
The editorial concluded, "The real question is not how many mortar shells will fall, or who will guard the Philadelphi route, or whether the Palestinians will dance on the roofs of Ganei Tal. The real question is who sets the national agenda."
Three and a half years ago, I made a very similar argument here.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:27 AM
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That same view that drives the Israeli Left's demand to keep the revanants frozen. The thinking goes if they can't build, they'll give up and leave.
That's what they would like to see happen. If they can destroy their religious Zionist rivals, their hegemony over the country will be complete.
And a Palestinian state for them is simply a means towards that objective.
'A wise man's mind [tends] to his right, while a fool's mind [tends] to his left"
Kohelet 10:2
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