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...referring to Tony Judt??s “Fictions on the Ground,” in which Judt, the director of NYU’s Remarque Institute for European Studies, condemns Israel’s continued construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories. He even urges President Barack H. Obama to “remind Israelis that all their settlements are hostage to American goodwill.” Some have labeled Judt??s piece, perhaps appropriately, as anti-Zionist: yet another media big-name railing against the State of Israel. But given the tone Obama...
...With Judt??s piece in mind—and in light of Obama’s recent call for all settlement activity to freeze—the Israeli government’s June 29 announcement to build yet another 50 homes in a West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem (which, according to Ha’aretz, could likely grow into as many as 1,450) only serves to highlight just how contentious “the settlement issue” has become between Israel and its closest ally-cum-benefactor...
...deny in word alone the carte blanche that Israel enjoyed during the Bush administration, and another to take some sort of action. With regard to the settlement “freeze,” Washington would be wise to demand a clear, concrete delineation, lest, in Judt??s words, it be “played yet again for a patsy...
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