Israel’s phony peace camp

On 17 August, the Guardian published a small article by Colin Shindler, a self-styled Israeli peace activist in which he berated Hamas for not talking to the Israeli “peace camp.”

Shindler argued that Hamas ought to engage peace-minded Israelis very much like the PLO, which he said assiduously cultivated Zionist and non-Zionist adherents.

Well, to begin with, the so-called Israeli left has always adopted mercurial, vague and hypocritical stands regarding the Palestinians and their enduring plight. The hypocrisy was a necessary tactic to blur the inherent contradiction between the ugly reality on the ground and the pretended leftist ideals.

Indeed, as Palestinians are being tormented, killed, decimated in ways reminiscent of Nazi oppression of Jews during WWII, the so-called Israeli left, including the bulk of the so-called peace camp!!, played deaf, dumb, and looked the other way as if the pornographic oppression was happening on another planet, not next door. More...