The reason for the collapse of the Israeli left is that the multi-culturalist, third-worldist assumptions that sustained it have taken a 10 year beating from which they were never going to recover. Ever since Barak’s peace offers, brokered by Bill Clinton in 2000 and 2001, were flatly rejected by the ‘moderate’ Palestinian leadership in favour of violence and rejectionism the core argument of the Israeli left that the Palestinian cause was based on legitimate grievances that could be addressed via the ‘land for peace’ formula simply lacked credibility inside the Israeli electorate. And given that socialTuesday, 18th January 2011
The left's sleep of reason
10:26am
As ever, Robin Shepherd sees the wider picture. Writing of the attack by the ultra-leftist Ha’aretz journalist Gideon Levy upon the decision by the Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak to leave Labour and found a new party, Atzmaut (Independence), Shepherd writes:
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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