Monday, June 30, 2008
The Liberal Party Line
Regarding some questions asked of me by a friend regarding how I label myself on my facebook profile: how is having a pro-Palestinian (or at least a pro-return exactly to Israel's pre-1967 borders) stance necessary to be considered liberal? Don't the "if you're a liberal, you must be pro-Palestinian" people assume things about the Palestinian cause as well as about Zionism that just aren't true?
I can understand how "liberal implies you must have a certain empathy toward the Palestinians" (and it should imply having the same empathy toward Jewish concerns, including even the Zionist position, as well), but how does that translate to having a certain party line on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Similarly, when again did being Zionist become the sine qua non of Jewish identity?
I can understand how "liberal implies you must have a certain empathy toward the Palestinians" (and it should imply having the same empathy toward Jewish concerns, including even the Zionist position, as well), but how does that translate to having a certain party line on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Similarly, when again did being Zionist become the sine qua non of Jewish identity?
# posted by alberich @ 7:06 PM 
