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A yid fun Loivitch's avatar

As someone who leans left, that rant was pretty convincing! Maybe the real problem with Hasbara is its done by naive people who actually believe their own propaganda.

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Paul Reichardt's avatar

Does the Israeli Right not understand how vital the Oslo Accords were for Israel to be as fully integrated into the world economy as it is today? Would they prefer the national GDP of the 1980’s?

The premise was as long as a just resolution with the Palestinians seemed to be an eventuality, western nations were willing to overlook the nature of the occupation and embrace Israel. Maybe that economic integration is irreversible at this point and Israel has become too indispensable for its security and other tech exports, but maybe not.

When one sees the Emmanuel Macrons and Joe Bidens of the world trying to prop up the corpse of the two-state solution with performative gestures, they are not doing that with the Israelis or Palestinians in mind, but rather for their own domestic political reasons. The dilemma is real and is not going away, if the political Id you describe is accurate. It’s a recipe for endless quagmire, conflict, and humanitarian disasters in the Middle East with Israel to be broadly viewed as the main antagonist. Who in their right mind wants to be tethered to that?

It seems the Israeli Right, as you describe it, and the Western Left are coming to a kind of agreement: Israel is willing to accept economic and diplomatic isolation in pursuit of its perceived security and territorial interests, and western liberals will be all to happy to let them have it good and hard.

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