The Logic of A Haaretz Columnist

This passes for logic and discourse in Haaretz:-

The settlers have chalked up a major achievement in that the government and Education Ministry allow such tours of occupied territory - has anyone heard of American young people touring Iraq or Afghanistan?

So, we are expected to presume that whereas in the past, academics and ideologists compared Ireland and Algeria with Judea and Samaria, for example my good acquaintance, Ian Lustick (in his book: Unsettled States, Disputed Lands
Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza), and the additional "colonial state" model, Judea and Samaria are now countries similar to independent states that were a threat to mankind and were conquered by America and its allies and for sure did not in anyway 'belong' to those temporary occupiers.

Clever those Haaretz columnists, aren't they?

Here is his paradigm which is just left-wing progressively amazing:

The settlers' takeover of the "molding of national memory," or simply put, the curriculum on key issues like the Land of Israel's history and geography, gives them the status of a state within an Israeli-settler federation. Each province of this federal state, Israel and Outpostia, has laws and leaders of its own. One has laws enacted by the Knesset and the other has ad-hoc laws, sometimes determined by rabbis and sometimes by the hilltop youth and other criminals.

But within this federated framework is a mighty struggle for control. Outpostia no longer makes do with partial independence that gives it the power to manage its affairs as it sees fit, to live according to its own interpretation of federal laws, to rob land at will and to establish settlements that become a burden and political threat to the entire federation. It no longer wants to rely on the mother state's education and legal system, which has embraced Outpostia. The goal is to turn Israel into a minority satellite state and force the settlements' laws and rules on the federation.

That another section of Israel's society had ruled over the country's "collective memory" is to be ignored and not analyzed, or whether it was justified then and justified now, or not justified now - and why. Does the term democracy possess any relevance?

Ha-Ha-Haaretz.

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