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"Peter Beinart…has not earned himself any trouble by coming out as an Israel-basher. He is someone who has rather belatedly fallen completely and predictably into line with the demands his ideological compatriots make for orthodoxy when it comes to their increasingly passionate interest in assaulting Israel and championing the Palestinian cause. In Beinart’s work, we are not witnessing an act of courage but rather a spectacle of conformity." - Noah Pollak responds to Beinart at CommentaryMagazine.com |
Read more responses to Beinart's essay. See a video debate between Beinart and Eli Lake of the Washington Times at Bloggingheads.tv. |
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"Every country manifests some kind of ideological divide. But in contemporary Israel, the gulf is among the widest on earth… In Israel itself, voices from the left, and even center, warn in increasingly urgent tones about threats to Israeli democracy… But in the United States, groups like AIPAC and the Presidents’ Conference patrol public discourse, scolding people who contradict their vision of Israel as a state in which all leaders cherish democracy and yearn for peace."