Thursday 12 September 2024

ISRAEL Commentators



Some of the commenters I read and watch, on issues Middle East, with focus on Israel, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran.  

I’m guess that if you look them up on Wikipedia, some of them may be labelled “conservative” or even “far-right”. I don’t mind. I follow them for good analysis. In any case certainly not all can fairly be called Rightist. For example, Norman FinkelsteinIlan Pappé, Sam Harris and Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Israel lives in a region where if you’re a feel-good Leftie you’re going to be gobbled up for lunch, dinner and tea. If it’s Ramadan, you’re going to be Iftar. 

You have to be Right, because you have to be tough to survive. That’s what a lot of the commenters, sitting in their cabins in the Catskills, or their mansions on Martha’s Vineyard, don’t understand. Even people like the sometimes revered Seymour Hersh. Who has a rotten take, IMO, in his latest post on the Kamala-Trump debate. 

It's also a fact that Israel has shifted steadily to the Right. As it has learned that "being nice" and offering "land for peace" has not worked out well.