Daybreak: Bibi Proposes Housing Solution

Your ostensible mentor and Tablet blogger-to-be Jeff Goldberg doesn’t seem to be afraid confront some of the dubious aspects of the Norwegian Labor Party camp, at least for those of us (including Goldberg) who are not conditional Zionists, here: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/a-crazy-conclusion-out-of-norway/242478/. Allow me to quote:

From the JTA (see URL in original post). One hopes this isn’t true (h/t H.G)

“German journalist Ulrich Sahm reported on the pro-Israel Israelnetz.com website that many of the youths who survived the massacre said they thought the killer, dressed as a police officer, was simulating Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the occupied territories. They believed that “the cruelty of the Israeli occupation” was being demonstrated to them, Sahm wrote.”

UPDATE: Martin Kramer alerted me to these photos (Kramer Link 1), apparently from last year. Take a look. Here are some more (Kramer Link 2), of kids playing “flotilla.”

In order to avoid being tossed into the interminable “moderation” universe, I will provide the Kramer links in separate posts below.

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Jerusalem / Efrata

Kramer Link 1 – http://spengler.atimes.net/viewtopic.php?highlight=&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sid=5dc81da376cc189913bee85754fbe7bc&start=0&t=17351

Kramer Link 2 — http://www.flickr.com/photos/sosialistiskungdom/with/4859983826/

Do you think the “former top Israeli military and diplomatic officials” will be condemned for speaking about their country’s foreign policy and going against their own elected prime minister on foreign soil?

Do you think those who criticized the U.S. Congress for applauding Netanyahu (like the execrable Andrew Sullivan) will be equally condemnatory of these officials? More likely he’ll cite them.

“Do you think the “former top Israeli military and diplomatic officials” will be condemned for speaking about their country’s foreign policy and going against their own elected prime minister on foreign soil?”

Unfortunately, Israel does not have the equivalent of the US’ Logan Act which prohibits private individuals from carrying out unauthorized diplomacy. Will His O-ness and Foggy Bottom (a very appropriate nickname) be smart enough to smile politely at this delegation and ignore them? Somehow I doubt it.

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BTW MT, it would be quite easy to produce another group of “former top Israeli military and diplomatic officials” who would be equally insistent that the pre-’67 cease fire lines (you don’t seem to be aware that they were never “borders” in the legal sense of the term) are not defensible.

I might remind you that it was the late dovish foreign minister Abba Eban who coined the term “Auschwitz Borders” to describe the pre-’67 lines. Do you think he qualifies as a “former top diplomatic official”, albeit a deceased one?

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“I might remind you that it was the late dovish foreign minister Abba Eban who coined the term “Auschwitz Borders” to describe the pre-’67 lines. Do you think he qualifies as a “former top diplomatic official”, albeit a deceased one?”

Its hard to know what he would think of territorial swaps and limitations on PA armaments as a solution. Or of the relative importance of the land threat from the east, vs the threat of Iranian nukes. Since he’s dead, as you point out.