Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Daniel Barenboim Has an Incisive Moment (or Two)

After 1967 Israel turned very much toward the US - not necessarily to its own advantage. The traditionalists said: "We will not give up the newly occupied territories." The religious Jews said: "These are not occupied but liberated, biblical territories." And with that the end of socialism in Israel was sealed


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Militant Zionism, on the other hand, did not develop any further in its thinking. Even today, it is still based on a lie: that the land that the Jews settled was empty.


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