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Newsweak publishes op-ed calling 'Palestinians' Zionists

Newsweak publishes an op-ed by one Daniel Gavron (forgive my ignorance, but I've never heard of him before) who credits the 'Palestinians' with being Zionists who are saving the Jewish state. This one is both wrong on many factual matters, and downright offensive.

Are the Palestinians the last Zionists? It would seem so. The situation of Israel has become surreal. Just as we Israelis are making a stupendous effort to ensure the dissolution of the Jewish state, envisioned by Theodor Herzl in 1896, by hanging onto the occupied territories, the Palestinians, led by President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, are working to ensure the survival of the Zionist enterprise by striving to establish a Palestinian ministate in the West Bank and Gaza.

Let us be very clear on just what is happening here: the Palestinians are doing their best to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza on a mere 22 percent of British Mandate for Palestine, which would afford us Zionist Jews a predominantly Jewish state on the remaining 78 percent. This is surely more than we could ever have envisaged when we set out to create a Jewish state and guarantees the survival of the state of Israel. Against this, we Israelis are fighting to keep the West Bank, which will soon result in an Arab majority and the end of a Jewish majority state.

Moreover, the Palestinians are supported by the Arab and Muslim nations, who are offering, via the Arab initiative, normal relations with the Jewish state. They are even prepared to accept our settlement folly by means of land swaps, which will leave a majority of the Israeli Jews who settled illegally in the West Bank during the past four decades inside the state of Israel.

The Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians are, of course, backed by virtually the entire population of the planet, led by the United States. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is devoting a significant portion of her time to finding a formula for peace, including an agreement with Syria in return for our withdrawal from the Golan Heights. This will result not only in our dreamed-for Jewish state, but also will go a long way toward neutralizing the threats to Israel posed by Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas.

It gets worse from there.

Martin Kramer has a bit more background on Gavron:

Israeli journalist Daniel Gavron has written a dishonest article for Newsweek, posing as an advocate of a two-state solution who faults Israel for failing to reach it. In fact, Gavron supports a one-state solution (http://bit.ly/hPMe9k). The same stunt is pulled by Ali Abunimah and his pals: infiltrate an Israel-bashing article in the mainstream, by posing as a well-meaning but frustrated two-stater. Poseurs.

Personally, I will be thrilled when the merger with the Daily Beast goes through and the magazine where Leftist opinion becomes 'fact' disappears.

Labels: anti-Zionism, demography, Newsweak

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:23 AM