The defeatism of the left ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Akiva Eldar - (Opinion) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am The settlers are right. Had today’s Zionist left been leading the Jewish community here in the 1940s there is a good chance we never would have had a state. Had those who lay proud claim to being “the peace camp,” who explain how “it’s impossible to evict 300,000 settlers,” been running the show in the early ‘50s, the Yishuv − with its population of 600,000 − would never have taken in one million Jews. The word “irreversible” does not exist in the vocabulary of the settlers. » Read more

Separated by shared history: The story of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Akiva Eldar - (Opinion) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am This column is dedicated in particular to the radical right-wingers who speak of transferring Israeli-Palestinian villages to the Palestinian side of the Green Line ("willing transfers") and to the despairing left-wingers who recommend the unification of the Israeli residents of Baka al-Garbiyeh with their neighbors in Baka al-Sharkiyeh (the binational state). » Read more