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Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Order clomid online cheap, I took a break from my day job to do a quick scan of the reactions to Obama's speech in Cairo. Kjøpe billig clomid, The most instructive one thus far comes from Daniel Gordis of the Shalem Center, whose post can be found on the NY Times blog, billige clomid apotek. Nebraska NE Nebr. , There has been much talk of late about Obama' desire to be a transformative president. Gordis spells out the transformation that he hopes our President will spark in Israel, Pennsylvania PA Penn. . Ordering clomid online without prescription, I share those hopes. Here is the post, without additional commentary:

Forcing Clarity on Israel
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While President Obama’s speech was addressed to the Arab world, it had been nervously anticipated in Israel, as well, order clomid online cheap. In its aftermath, clomid pills, Köpa billiga clomid, some Israelis are quibbling with word choices or wondering whether he is naïve in believing that Hamas might renounce terror or that Iranians can be entrusted with civilian nuclear capacity. Others are assailing his comments about settlements, Idaho ID . North Carolina NC N.C. , For years, we fudged on painful questions, bestill clomid online. Billig clomid apotek, That posture may no longer be possible. Order clomid online cheap, But the real news is that contrary to what many expected, or feared, President Obama assumed positions virtually identical to those of Israel’s political center –- namely, that the Palestinians must renounce violence and recognize Israel’s right to exist, while Israel must cease settlement building and permit a Palestinian state to arise. Now, Connecticut CT Conn. , Cheap clomid tablets, Benjamin Netanyahu’s problem is that it’s difficult to distinguish between President Obama and Tzipi Livni. And in Israel’s recent elections, φτηνές φαρμακείο clomid, Alaska AK , Livni and her Kadima party won more votes than anyone else.

But the major “problem” that the speech poses for Israel’s leaders is that Israelis are finally going to have to make painful decisions about our future, Wyoming WY Wyo. . South Dakota SD , No longer will Israel’s fractious politics provide a curtain behind which to hide. Will we abide a Palestinian state, or are we committed to the present stalemate as a matter of principle, order clomid online cheap. Are we committed to keeping the West Bank (for reasons of security, Nevada NV Nev. , Clomid en ligne afin, history or theology), or are we open to withdrawing if a genuine peace accord is possible, cheap clomid online without prescription. Virginia VA Va. , If all Jews will have to depart the West Bank, what about Arabs in Israel, order clomid from canada. Wisconsin WI Wis. , For years, we’ve fudged on these painful questions; with President Obama, acquistare a buon mercato clomid, Buy cheap clomid online, that may no longer be possible.

Once Israelis grow accustomed to the new tenor emanating from Washington, we may see today’s speech in a different light. Barack Obama may or may not bring peace to the Middle East, but he may well force clarity, and perhaps disciplined policy, on an Israeli society that has long desperately needed it.

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Friday, May 15th, 2009

Order cheap viagra free samples online, Under normal circumstances, we want the world’s leaders to have moral and ideological consistency and to know who they are. Perhaps, Tennessee TN Tenn. , Viagra free samples online kaufen, under current circumstances, it is better for Israel to be led by a man who doesn’t have the faintest idea of who he is and relies on others to define him, viagra free samples. Purchase viagra free samples, “Nothing has changed in Netanyahu's personality,” according to Haaretz columnist Yoel Marcus: “He is not trustworthy, Kjøp Discount viagra free samples, Købe viagra free samples, and the last one to pressure him is the one who influences him.”

The Israeli media have focused in the last few days on a chaotic budget battle in which Netanyahu kept caving in to pressure from every imaginable source. He pledged to lower taxes and reduce government spending during his campaign, cheap viagra free samples online without prescription, Discount viagra free samples, but –after pressure from the Ofer Eini, head of the Histadrut labor federation, Køb billige viagra free samples, Viagra free samples generic, among others-- he agreed to higher taxes and more spending. He even agreed to make it easier for workers to organize, order viagra free samples c.o.d., Cheap viagra free samples pills, after deploring unions for much of his career. Some economists say there is a great deal of fat in the Israeli defense establishment and that Israel can’t recover economically unless that fat is trimmed, order cheap viagra free samples online. Netanyahu agreed to a budget that will reduce defense spending for awhile, halvalla viagra free samples apteekki, Comprare viagra free samples, but –under pressure from Defense Minister Ehud Barak—he also agreed that all the money that was cut will return to the Defense Ministry’s coffers after two years.

Whether or not these were wise economic moves is beside the point, order viagra free samples. South Dakota SD , What is important here is that the Israeli Prime Minister does not seem to have ANY principles. Marcus, Idaho ID , Ordering viagra free samples online cheap, again: “There is no connection between what he says today and what he will say and do tomorrow or the next day. Order cheap viagra free samples online, Netanyahu's thinking goes as far as the noontime news broadcast, and his long-range planning goes as far as the evening news on television…He zigzags, perspires and is easily pressured.”

An Israeli television commentator, Amnon Abramowitz, wrote in Yediot Ahronoth that “If, next week, in his meeting [on May 18th] with US President Barack Obama, Netanyahu displays the same flexibility, springiness and elasticity,he will be this season's surprise.”

So I am dreaming that Obama will summon up all of his rhetorical and manipulative skills and convince Bibi that it will be in his interests to do what the U.S. asks him to do, Um viagra free samples online. Arizona AZ Ariz. , I don’t see many other sources of hope in the dysfunctional Israeli political system and the divided Palestinian polity. But it can’t hurt to hope that Netanyahu will be so elastic, buy cheap viagra free samples, Cheapest viagra free samples online, so flexible, that he will agree to stop ALL settlement construction, buy cheap viagra free samples online, Order viagra free samples overnight delivery, agree (perhaps privately) to deal with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas in the cabinet, accept the Arab peace plan as a basis for negotiations, buy viagra free samples no prescription, and give the U.S. the time it needs to determine if a new approach to Iran will bear fruit.

There are several possible public images available to the Israeli prime minister, several Bibi Netanyahus to choose from. Catch him at the right moment, and in the right company, he just might choose one that will prevent the region from sliding even further into the abyss. Hey, sometimes hoping, dreaming and praying are the only options available to "realistic doves."

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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I am sometimes deeply offended by what Weiss has to say, and am even more offended by the acolytes who have gathered around his blog, some of whom are openly anti-Semitic, buy viagra free samples online cheap. South Carolina SC S.C. , I have expressed those concerns here, sometimes with a great deal of anger, Oklahoma OK Okla. . αγοράσετε viagra free samples έκπτωση, Part of what energizes his critique of Israel and American Jews is not only an objection to the occupation and those who passively accept it. He has also been staking out a position as a proud "assimilationist." He is angry that Jewish ethnic loyalty has created an ethos that justifies anything Israel does (I'm angry, Iowa IA , Osta viagra free samples online, too) But it is not just the byproducts of ethnic loyalty that bother him and some of his fans. Weiss seems to object to the very idea of Jewish peoplehood as most Jews define it, acheter viagra free samples bon marché, παραγγείλετε online viagra free samples, which includes a sense of fellow-feeling when in the company of other Jews and an attachment to the land of Israel (for a host of reasons, from religious feeling to an appreciation of the simple fact that many Jews live there), cheap viagra free samples online cheap.

He appears to be bothered by any Buy viagra free samples online cheap, self-defined ethnic or religious community, because he worships "fluid identity," he extolls an America where old distinctions are breaking down and being replaced by, well, uh...it remains to be seen. Viagra free samples without a prescription, For example, he loved the kids who worshipped Obama because they gave him an "oceanic" feeling, cheapest viagra free samples online, Ordering viagra free samples online cheap, a sense of no boundaries. "All our hideous classifications, halvalla viagra free samples apteekki, West Virginia WV W.Va. , " he has written, "are about to go out the window, viagra free samples for sale, Viagra free samples online kopen, race and class and the geography of us and them, including in the end the good-for-the-Jews stuff I grew up with and that has been rationalized and bolted down by endless militarism..."

I could go on, buy viagra free samples without prescription, Ordering viagra free samples pills, and on and on, about why Weiss is often wrong and sometimes dangerous, köpa viagra free samples online. Maine ME Me. , That said, there is an admirable moral core to the man. And I share much of his anger and his anguish about Israeli behavior. And his persistent questioning of Zionism and everything connected with it has prompted me to check longheld assumptions at the door and think carefully about the price of tribalism and particularism, buy viagra free samples online cheap. He also happens to be an old friend and a nice guy. So what should I do with his endorsement. Should I announce, "Thanks but no thanks, MondoWeiss?" Should I compile everything Weiss has ever written, come up with a point-by-point refutation, and send it to Mort Klein so he doesn't bother me.

Or should I act like a grown-up.

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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Buy cialis online cheap, Prime Minister Netanyahu still hasn't given up on the idea of forging an "economic peace" with the Palestinians, Bloomberg reports.

Last week, ordering cialis overnight delivery, Køb billige cialis, at a meeting in Washington, I heard Yossi Beilin tell some left-learning, Idaho ID , Order cialis online cheap, pro-Israel American Jews that they --and the Israeli left-- should take Netanyahu at his word. "If he wants economic peace, West Virginia WV W.Va. , Buy cialis c.o.d., let's say, `Fine, billig kaufen cialis. Cheapest cialis prices, We agree. Here is what you need to do..."

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Instead of sneering and telling Netanyahu to stop pulling the wool over our eyes, buy cialis online legally, För cialis online, this is the moment that even those who believe in peace should demand that he keep what he promises. Economic peace is no simple thing, buy cialis online cheap. Colorado CO Colo. , You can’t make economic peace in a situation in which agricultural goods that have to reach a port or a bridge have to go through dozens of roadblocks, making it pointless to market them..., cheap cialis online. Louisiana LA , ..We have to realize that the phrase ‘economic peace’ means giving permits to Palestinian laborers to work in Israel, [it means] giving permits to export to the PA goods that Israel does not [now] permit exported to it due to fear that dangerous use will be made of them (such as chemical fertilizers liable to be used for producing bombs), cialis pharmacy, South Dakota SD , [it means] giving permits to landowners in the West Bank to work their land, [it means] giving exit permits [for Palestinians] to attend courses overseas, comprar cialis, [it means] bringing experts from overseas to the West Bank, and so on and so forth. Buy cialis online cheap, If this takes place, the security establishment will come to Netanyahu the prime minister and demand that he not remove roadblocks, that he not give permits, and will warn him of the risk he is taking on himself. His first test will be if he can stand up and say to them: `I promised economic peace, and I am determined to realize it.'

Interesting idea. Alas, it probably doesn't matter what the dispirited Israeli left says or does, at the moment. But it does matter what Obama, Mitchell and Hillary Clinton say and do. Maybe they should just call Bibi's bluff and see if that changes the game...

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87% of respondents said they supported the United States playing an active role in helping the parties resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, Missouri MO Mo. . Cheap cialis online without prescription, 75% supported this role even if it meant the U.S. publicly disagreeing with both sides, Michigan MI Mich. , Buy cialis from canada, and 70% supported it even if meant applying pressure to both sides.

That is good news for those of us who think toughminded American diplomacy is the only feasible way to break the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, kjøpe cialis online. But it isn't surprising to anyone who's tracked American Jewish opinion, buy cialis. Cheap cialis no prescription, In 1998, when the Clinton Administration was squabbling with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Hawaii HI , Buy cialis overnight delivery, a poll sponsored by Israel Policy Forum found that, by a 9-1 margin, billige cialis Apotheke, Purchase cialis online, American Jews wanted the administration to take an “evenhanded” approach to the Israel-Palestinian dispute and 84 percent agreed that the United States should “pressure” both Arafat and Netanyahu. In my book, buy cialis online, Order cialis online, I cite a number of other polls to show that, during the past decade, cialis pills, Jotta cialis verkossa, most American Jews have endorsed leaning on both sides, rather than just one side, Arkansas AR Ark. , Ordering cialis without prescription, when necessary.

But the new J Street survey shows something new, Om cialis online, Order cialis cod, something different, something that has gotten no attention: there is a solid bloc of Jews in the U.S, buy cialis without prescription. New Mexico NM N.Mex. , who would support their government if it pressured only Israel.

When revealing this little nugget in their analysis Buy cialis, , the pollsters, Gerstein Agne, look at the glass as half-full for supporters of Israel:

"We introduced an additional component to this exercise in this latest survey, and provided half the sample with the language cited above [about U.S. engagement] and provided the other half of the sample with language that focused exclusively on publicly disagreeing with or pressuring just Israel instead of both Israelis and Arabs, köpa rabatterade cialis. Ohio OH , [emphasis added by DF].

"Not surprisingly, New Jersey NJ N.J. , support for America playing an active role drops off considerably if it means disagreeing only with Israel (support drops 88 to 58 percent) or pressuring only Israel (support drops from 88 to 57 percent). These findings underscore how strongly Jews want the U.S. to assert itself to achieve peace, but also how much more effective it is when America is even-handed and addresses both sides instead of just one side."

True, but the findings also show that large numbers of American Jews, perhaps even a majority, have moved beyond favoring evenhandedness or honest brokerage, buy cialis. These people are simply in no mood to put up with an Israeli government that takes more steps that will preclude the possibility of a 2-state solution, although the pollsters don't spell out specific examples of Israeli recalcitrance or military adventurism when testing that proposition.

It doesn't matter if this represents the sentiments of a majority of Jews in the U.S. It obviously reflects the views of a good many of them. While no doubt some of them have always felt this way, it is likely that these numbers offer more evidence of radicalization and growing alienation from Israel, especially among younger Jewish voters. Buy cialis, Will Congress and the Obama team hear from them, and from the larger group that is comfortable with pressure on both sides if and when it is necessary. That remains to be seen.

But the results ought to be troubling to Benjamin Netanyahu. So should another nugget from the poll, which has also gone unnoticed: 72% of American Jews who give money to political campaigns oppose Israeli settlement expension. The pollsters note: "In fact, political donors stand out from the overall population on a variety of areas, including their more Democratic and progressive self-identification, greater support for peace initiatives and more negative attitudes toward Avigdor Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu."

This is further proof of what I've been pointing out for quite some time: although political donations from hawkish American Jews get all the attention from the cabal watchers, most "Jewish money" in politics comes from those who support Israel's peace camp (whatever is left of it, that is). The problem is that this support is passive. Too few of them identify their concerns about the occupation or their endorsement of tough American diplomacy when they write their checks or call their Congressperson. That is one of the habits that J Street--working in tandem with allied groups like Brit Tzedek v' Shalom and Americans for Peace Now--is trying to change. Hope it's not too late...

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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I often disagree with Goldberg. But it isn't helpful to consign him to narrow ideological categories or to presume that because he sometimes agrees with Jonathan Chait or Steven Rosen, Texas TX Tex. , Price of cialis, it is never appropriate to concur with him. When Goldberg is right, he deserves credit, and he never seems to get any from critics of the Israeli occupation or America's passive acceptance of it, order cialis online cheap. The following, Koop korting cialis, Købe cialis, splendid post by Goldberg on the IDF's behavior has not gotten the attention it deserves:

The Times reported that the Israeli government believes it must spend more money on "hasbara," a Hebrew word that falls somewhere between propaganda and information, buy cialis no prescription. Cialis, It is true that the world media, generally speaking, Acheter en ligne cialis, Indiana IN Ind. , doesn't like Israel very much, and stacks the deck against it, Montana MT Mont. , Washington WA Wash. , but good hasbara starts with not allowing soldiers to vandalize Palestinian homes and shoot Palestinian women. Public relations isn't a morally relevant category, osta alennus cialis, Buy cialis cheap, in any case: The crucial question is, how should a civilized country behave when confronting barbarism, generic cialis. With barbarism. Order cialis online cheap, Or with respect for innocent life. Pardon me for saying so, but the Jewish people didn't struggle for national equality, justice and freedom so that some of its sons could behave like Cossacks.

Please don't get me wrong: I'm not equating the morality of the IDF to that of Hamas. The goal of Hamas is to murder innocent people; the goal of the IDF is to avoid murdering innocent people. But when the IDF fails to achieve its goal, and ends up inflicting needless destruction and suffering, it sullies not only its own name, but the name of the Jewish state. It risks making a just cause -- Jewish nationhood -- seem unjust, and it ultimately endangers what it is supposed to protect.

If those are the sentiments of a neocon, then I'll plead guilty to being a neocon, too.

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Friday, March 13th, 2009

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Ahmed: If most Israelis would hand over Hebron if they thought doing so would make them safer in Israel proper, then the same is true of Palestinian resistance: in the late 1990s, Fatah cracked down on Hamas so much that only 8 Israelis were killed by Palestinians between the summers of 1997 and 2000, compared to more than a thousand during the 2nd Intifada, order cheap cialis online. We were promised at Oslo that if we delivered security, Osta cialis, Price of cialis, you would reverse settlement growth (or at least freeze it!); but the "dovish" Ehud Barak oversaw the development of more settlements than any other Israeli prime minister...We controlled our radicals then, and you're still complaining that you don't have a "credible partner for peace."

Avi: Okay, Michigan MI Mich. , Cialis online cheap, you're right on this one. We wanted to have it both ways, order cialis no prescription, Connecticut CT Conn. , and it cost us both a lot. But now the 2nd Intifada has compelled us to start building trust again, cialis ordine on-line, Cheap cialis, and we have created so many new terrorists that we are now faced again with the same problem: even in the best case scenario, it's not the vast majority of Palestinians that we worry about, Maryland MD Md. . Billige cialis apotek, We are worried about the one percent that will simply never give up killing Israelis until we move to Alaska or Uganda or wherever. Order cheap cialis online, And among a population of 3.5 million, one percent is still 35,000--all of whom could exploit a peace settlement by launching rockets and mortars from ideal strategic positions on top of the hills surrounding East Jerusalem. Currently, billig kaufen cialis, Cialis discount, we have the authoritative legitimacy to neutralize our own rabid one percent, but do you, osta alennus cialis. Buy cialis without prescription, Ahmed: You don't get it. We've already proven that to you, Jotta cialis verkossa, Billig cialis apotek, and you blew it. Whenever Palestinians feel hopeful about the peace process, Wyoming WY Wyo. , Cialis farmacia a buon mercato, the government has more than enough legitimacy to confront our extremists.

This brings to mind a comment on a post by Philip Weiss in January. After, at my behest, Weiss acknowledged that it was wrong for Hamas to use people as human shields and that the Israelis were not the only ones who behaved badly in Gaza, "David Green" commented:

"The `two narratives' approach is a non-starter for analysis and action, order cheap cialis online. Let's keep the perpetrators separate from the victims."

I found this quote so astonishing that I saved it for a rainy day. It's one thing to argue with the Israeli side of the story; this guy thinks it is useful to pretend that the Israelis have no story at all. That is an extreme example, but I am encountering the logic at its core more and more these days, i.e, the premise that Israelis' worries about their own safety should not even be part of the political and strategic calculus. It is just inconvenient to worry about the Israelis' worries, so let's pretend they don't have any, shall we.

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The Museum has an exhibit on hate speech with a videotape that focuses on a racist, sexist, right wing radio talk show host. Buy cialis without prescription, He says vile things about blacks and feminists and others, various characters react to him, and visitors to the exhibit get a chance to vote on questions related to freedom of speech. At the end of the presentation, we are told that hate speech ---i.e, Vermont VT Vt. . bigoted remarks against anyone because of their race, sex, ethnicity, or sexual preference—has a “corrosive effect” on a democratic society. Ordering cialis online without prescription, If left unchecked, it can be very destructive.

So of course I thought of Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Le Pen. Americans for Peace Now has done a splendid job of documenting his extremist statements on their web site, buy cialis without prescription. Read them and weep. Earlier, cheapest cialis online, in the museum’s lobby, I had spotted a list of goodhearted, liberal Jewish donors on the wall. Now, Cialis prescription, I wondered how they were dealing with the fact that their museum is trying to stamp out precisely what is embodied by one of Israel’s most popular politicians, a racist and former Kahanist who may well be a kingmaker as the Israelis try to form a new government.

There were other presentations about mass extermination and ethnic cleansing. Buy cialis without prescription, There was a segment about the desperate plight of refugees. There were familiar but still ghastly images from Cambodia, Darfur, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, generic cialis. Again and again, we saw the innocent victims of violence by state-sanctioned forces that were unconcerned about either civilian casualties or human rights. The accusations of Israel’s accusers rang in my ears, those people who make glib and reckless comparisons between Israelis and Nazis, Købe cialis online, or throw around terms like “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” to describe Israeli actions and policies.

Usually, I am as disturbed as anyone when Israelis are placed in the same category as the worst human rights violators. Despite the impression given by Israeli rationalizations for seemingly pitiless assaults on civilian neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, they are not deliberately trying to exterminate an entire people, buy cialis without prescription.

But watching these presentations, it was impossible not to think about the maimed children of the Gaza Strip, the white phosphorus in civilian neighborhoods, ordering cialis overnight delivery, and the high approval ratings Israelis gave to the entire, appalling operation. I had to think very hard about whether Israel’s accusers were right, whether the comparisons were valid, Order cialis, whether the Gazan kids could legitimately have been in those video presentations at the museum. The very fact that I was even forced to consider such things was disturbing, and instructive. These and similar questions are in the air now, among Israelis and at least some American Jews. Buy cialis without prescription, There is no escaping them. And, Nevada NV Nev. , yes, there is a risk that mentioning them gives valuable ammunition to anti-Semites and others who want Israel to disappear, but at a certain point, those who still care about Israel need to take that risk and confront these questions. Cialis generic, In his bold and brave new book, The Holocaust is Over. We Must Rise from the Ashes, Avram Burg notes:

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“No,” I answered. “There’s nothing that bad in Israel.” But the fact that it would even occur to him to ask the question was also telling, buy cialis without prescription.

My uncle is 80, a sweet funny man, a very liberal Democrat. At breakfast during this visit, buy cialis online cheap, I told him that, over the years, I’d noticed that he had become increasingly upset by Israel’s belligerent settlement expansion, its treatment of Palestinians under occupation and, Cialis for sale, lately, its military tactics. He said, “No, I’ve become more objective.”

A violist, he had served in the U.S, cialis pharmacy. army orchestra during World War II. Buy cialis without prescription, His older brother, my father, was a passionate Zionist. A good friend of his had helped to liberate the concentration camps. He’d always thought that Israel had a right to exist because there was no other choice after World War II, no other place for “our” refugees to go. Order cialis, To him, and to the rest of my family, Israel used to be associated with progressive, socialist ideals. But in 2009, at the Museum of Tolerance, Koop korting cialis, he insisted, “Your father wouldn’t have supported what they are doing [to the Palestinians]. My father wouldn’t have supported it.”

But this was more than a matter of disapproval of Israel from the comfort of a distant shore, or of lost ideals, buy cialis without prescription. My uncle was disturbed by other, more direct consequences of Israeli behavior. Cialis, In the few days that my family had stayed at his home in Santa Monica, he had repeatedly talked about what Hugo Chavez and his thugs were doing to the Jews in Venezuela, the scary rhetoric demanding that Jews there denounce what Israel did in Gaza, the attack on a synagogue. He was clearly alarmed, taking the whole thing very personally. Several times, he said, “There might be a pogrom...” And he clearly believed Israeli behavior was partially responsible for this state of affairs.

In other words, he was worried and angry that, 60+ years after the creation of a permanent refuge for the Jews, the people in charge of that refuge were hurting Jews thousands of miles away.

At the Museum of Tolerance, after I tried to assure him that Israel hadn’t sunk to the level of the Nuremberg laws, he said, “I guess I’m afraid…I’m afraid that they [the Israelis] are going to be equated with Nazis.”

And what he said next was even more mortifying, even sadder: “I’m afraid we’ll be blamed.”

“You mean American Jews?” I asked.

“Of course.”

I guess you could say that we had a very educational visit, and that the museum had taught me some things about Israel, after all.

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Over at MondoWeiss Buy cialis no prescription, , Adam Horowitz gives us a "Zeitgeist Alert" and proclaims that "The two-state solution is dead."

He quotes a piece by Sandy Tolan in the Christian Science Monitor that presents all-too-familiar arguments for why it is too late, there is no hope, the Palestinians have been deprived of a state of their own, give up, give up, all you two-state idealists, the settlement enterprise is irrevocable, nothing can get the Jews out of Ariel...

That might be true, of course. Cheapest cialis in the world, The odds are more daunting than ever. But these warnings are hardly new. What is new is the turned-up volume of the one-staters, who have decided that, cialis cheap, somehow, magically, Billiga cialis apotek, out of the torn limbs and mangled homes of Gaza, at a moment when the utter hatred between Israelis and Palestinians has never been more raw, the answer comes from...Albert Einstein.

Here is Horowitz, quoting Tolan:

Yet it was no less a man than Albert Einstein who believed in "sympathetic cooperation" between "the two great Semitic peoples" and who insisted that "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." A relative handful of Israelis and Palestinians are beginning to survey the proverbial new ground, considering what Einstein's theories would mean in practice, buy cialis no prescription. They might take heart from Einstein's friend Martin Buber, cialis pills, the great philosopher who advocated a binational state of "joint sovereignty," with "complete equality of rights between the two partners, Order cialis no rx, " based on "the love of their homeland that the two peoples share."

Even though Tolan uses examples from the past, it's clear the discourse is moving forward.

Those who agree with Einstein and Buber today have not come up with a practical political path to get from here to there. They just content themselves with keeping the "discourse" alive, preferring to reside in a kind of rarified, buy cialis online, ideological never-never-land where simply advocating a dream is sufficient. There is a reason why only a "relative handful" of Israelis and Palestinians are surveying "proverbial ground." The reason is that the rest of them must live on real ground, Price of cialis, in the actual world. As former Palestinian negotiator Ghaith al-Omari once told me, "It is easy to live in Chicago and believe in a one-state solution. Buy cialis no prescription, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza understand that the most immediate priority is to end the occupation, as soon as possible...That means two states." They cannot afford to wait until Esperanto becomes a universal language, nuclear weapons are dismantled everywhere, and Israeli Jews decide to renounce their state and become a minority group, like Jews everywhere else.

I would like to believe that, köpa cialis online, had I been a contemporary of Buber and Judah Magnes and the other Israeli idealists who strived for a binational state, I would have agreed with them. Comprar cialis baratos, But I am not their contemporary. Check out this screed from Realistic Dove, from April, 2007, buy generic cialis, for a few reasons (mostly from Uri Avnery) why the one-state solution is simply unworkable. This is not the place for yet another rendition of that tired argument.

It is worth pointing out, though, that those who are perpetuating the one-state idea now are inadvertently hurting Palestinians in the ravaged Gaza Strip, buy cialis no prescription. Buy cialis, A fascinating JTA op-ed last week by Americans for Peace Now's Ori Nir has not gotten the attention it deserves. It offers compelling reasons why, right now, "the only real viable hope for Gaza is a link to the other Palestinian territory, Um cialis online, the West Bank. Only a strong relationship with the West Bank, Order cialis online, reinforced by unhindered safe passage between the two Palestinian territories, can provide the remedy for Gaza. In other words, the only real hope for Gaza lies in the two-state solution."

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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Last week I dug up an old, Cialis pills, yellowing Israeli intelligence report from April 1987 headlined "The Gaza Strip toward the year 2000." It was authored by the "Civil Administration," Israel's military government, only several months before the eruption in Gaza of the first intifada. Buy cialis no prescription, The secret document, distributed to Israel's top security leadership, provides both a high-resolution snapshot (more than 200 pages) of Gaza and a careful forecast. Amazingly, billiga cialis apotek, it predicted a process of multifaceted integration of the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Reading the report, Købe cialis, written less than 22 years ago, is like a voyage to ancient history. What the report clearly shows, however, αγοράσετε cialis έκπτωση, is that policy mistakes and misunderstandings about Gaza are as old as Israel's 41-year-old occupation of the strip.

The population of Gaza in 1987 was 633, Order cialis cod, 600. Today it has climbed to more than 1.5 million, buy cialis no prescription. The report predicted that by the year 2000, the strip's population would reach 1 million -- a "maximal forecast" depicted as "unreasonable," meaning unreasonably high, Missouri MO Mo. . In fact, by 2000, Florida FL Fla. , the strip's population had mushroomed to 1.132 million. The fertility rate for 2000 was predicted to drop from 6.60 to 5.80, but it remained at 6.55 and was estimated at 5.19 in 2008.

The report did talk, Oregon OR Ore. , casually , about the "increase in the strength" of the fundamentalist Islamist political stream, Order cialis c.o.d., but noted that although the Islamists support Israel's destruction, they believe that their first focus ought to be "preparing the hearts and minds" within their community. Buy cialis no prescription, Around that time, as a reporter covering Palestinian affairs, I met with the Israeli governor of Gaza, who told me that Israel had "no problem" with the Islamists because they were not engaged in any subversive or violent activity. To the contrary: Israel's military government in Gaza, dividing and ruling as it always did, cialis online kopen, gently nurtured the Islamists as a counterweight to the Palestinian Liberation Organization during the 1980s.

The most fascinating -- and today fantastical -- chapter in the report is the one examining the social trends in the strip. Order cialis, It predicted the accelerated socio-political integration of the Gaza Strip into Israel, as well as "an increase in reciprocal dependency between the Gaza Strip and Israel." It predicted the "penetration of the Strip's employees into high-level professions in Israel," and even Gazans' "imitation of the Israeli life style."

So much for that. The Palestinians of Gaza rebelled against Israel's occupation months after the report was issued and have been fighting for independence for more than two decades.

The Palestinians of Gaza, just like their brethren in the West Bank, need and deserve political independence, buy cialis no prescription. But the Gaza Strip simply cannot live in political or economic isolation. The 22-year-old Israeli report is clear about that. Its message is that the Gaza Strip has no viability, no future, as an isolated, detached entity.

At the time there was no fence between Israel and Gaza, not even a roadblock or a checkpoint at the entrance to the strip. Buy cialis no prescription, Today it is impossible to imagine open borders between Israel and Gaza.

Israel will not become again an economic lifeline for Gaza in the foreseeable future. Neither will Egypt, its southern neighbor. Both Israel and Egypt see Gaza as nothing but trouble.

The only real viable hope for Gaza is a link to the other Palestinian territory, the West Bank. Only a strong relationship with the West Bank, reinforced by unhindered safe passage between the two Palestinian territories, can provide the remedy for Gaza, buy cialis no prescription. In other words, the only real hope for Gaza lies in the two-state solution.

Israelis and Palestinians must keep in mind that a cease-fire is not an alternative to peace. Israelis and Palestinians, and the international third parties that help them advance toward peace, must remember that just as a two-state solution is the only way in which Israel can secure its long-term character as a Jewish and democratic state, so does the two-state solution provide the only hope for Gaza to reach a reasonable level of normalcy and sustainability in the long run. Only a two-state solution can provide the uninterrupted, robust lifeline to the West Bank that the Gaza Strip needs.

The war and the cease-fire that followed show yet again that only a two-state solution provides a horizon of hope for Israelis and Palestinians to reach the peace and long-term security that they so much deserve.

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