Writing about Israel that eschews the usual pro-Likud cheer-leading is mighty hard to find in North American media.
It usually takes one of two forms here. On the one hand, you've got the professorial types. Chomsky, Finkelstein, Michael Neumann, just to name a few. They are easily dismissed as pointy-headed elitists by our main-stream media.
On the other hand, there are the drooling anti-semites, just a degree or two removed from the Protocols, and they are easily and deservedly dismissed as what they are; anti-semetic.
What we never see is a rational discussion of the pros and cons of the Likud platform. That's something that is routinely called into question in Israel.
Take for example the response to a recent Haaretz article by Gili Cohen entitled Israel's air superiority in question.
The article is a lengthy paraphrase of a speech by Maj. General Ido Nehushtan, chief of the Israeli air force, in which he laments Israel's declining air superiority vis-a-vis her neighbors.
What's insightful is not so much the article, as the comments on the article. By a wide margin readers see the article as a transparent ploy to frighten the Israeli electorate and to squeeze more free stuff out of the American taxpayer.
If you expressed such a thought in America you would be dismissed as an
ant-semite.
Here is the link:http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iaf-commander-israel-s-aerial-superiority-is-in-danger-1.409889
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