A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Daniels, a country music mainstay who’s worked with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen throughout his 60-year career—you probably know him from The Charlie Daniels Band’s 1979 hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia“—published a post on his blog titled, “The Palestinian Conundrum.” In it, Daniels, who regularly states his opinions on political matters on his “Soapbox” blog, recounts U.N. Resolution 181, which, well, did not quite work out; that “the grace of God and 24/7/365 vigilance can prevent daily catastrophe” between Israel and its enemies; and that Palestinians are simply going about their causes all wrong, and that they’re “disenfranchised” as if by choice.
Charlie Daniels, defender of Israel.
Jonathan Zalman is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn.
