Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Ruling party to assign greater number of Arab MKs to major Knesset committees, in bid to ensure approval of future plan to withdraw from West Bank.

Who is unrealistic, those who want to ‘converge’ or those who oppose it?

If you will it, it is no fanciful dream -Theodore Herzl

In the prevailing political reality in Israel today, it has become more and more common to dismiss political programs that oppose Israeli withdrawal from territories beyond the 1967 Green Line as “unrealistic” or “impractical.”

However, in light of the dismal failure of the alternative approach – that endorses such withdrawal – one cannot avoid broaching the question of whether any particular political philosophy should be labeled – or rather libeled – as “unrealistic”. read more