The Tragic Situation
The complex and tragic nature of Israel’s situation deserves a robust and realistic moral assessment.
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Daniel
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Dec 21, 2013 09:54AM
Can one isolate the "tragic situation" you describe on the West Bank as limited to that area alone, David? Clearly not. Part of the problem in isolating that tragedy lies in the extent to which hostility to Israel was nourished over a larger period of staking land-claims, few of which can be easily reconciled with what we'd associate with the survival of a "democracy" or to have been within a moral pale. Rather than see the West Bank colonization in isolation, it might help to acknowledge that many of the "tragic circumstances" were indeed staked out by the Israeli governments in the past, and are, in part, tragic because they did not unfold in legal terms. I've tried to offer a "cartographical archeology" of the situation at http://wp.me/p36T6t-1if, and meant to post it to your oped piece.
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