The Facism of the Left

My mentor, Dr. Israel Eldad, once told me on one of those Fridays we spent together for an hour or two, "The left considers me a fascist for my staunch positions of the Land of Israel and the need to be strong in face of Arab hostility. I admit that my orientation outwards is harsh but towards all my fellow Jews I am soft. The Left, on the other hand, is the opposite. They are weak and soft towards the external enemy and harsh towards their fellow Jews."

I recalled those words when reading Bernard Avishai, here, who wrote:

But insisting on a total freeze today, when settlements have turned into substantial towns full of mobilized youth--towns whose residents should be understood as on a scale somewhere between Pat Robertson and David Koresh--seems false.

This is ridiculous, false, malicious and hatefully spiteful.

It is the type of metaphoric imagery one uses when one has no real argument.

What Avishai does desire is American interventionism (only in Israel, God forbid anywhere else in the world):

Obama should use the dispute over a settlements freeze as an occasion to rally the world community to drawing up a permanent border, something along the lines of the one offered in the Geneva Initiative...Obama should make clear that a border is not Israel's internal affair. That, for example, the world will never recognize the town of Ariel as part of a future Israel...A strong sense of where America wants the border would be an early win for the peace process, which could unlock many other possibilities.

And here's the fascism:

...to get these people [the revenants] out eventually, you have to 1) politically marginalize them, that is, create a conflict of interest between settlers who fall within an agreed border and those more fanatic types falling outside it; 2) induce them to return to agreed settlements or to within the Green Line with time-limited financial compensation; 3) threaten them with power and water cuts on this or that date; and, these measures failing, 4) remove them by siege and, if necessary, force.