Honoring terrorists in the Lavon Affair goes to far.
[Editor's note: Antiwar.com's editor, Justin Raimondo, is a staunch libertarian who has repeatedly criticized Israeli domestic and foreign policy. On numerous occasions he has exposed the entanglement of Israel in U.S. government affairs, and reported extensively on the AIPAC spy scandal. Today, a week after White civil rights activist, David Duke, decried Israel's honoring of Jewish terrorists in the Lavon affair, Raimondo brings the story to an audience that is awakening to the problem of Israel. -DM]
by Justin Raimondo
Over the years, as the actions of the Israeli government have become more extreme – and less concerned with international public opinion – very little of what Israel’s leaders say or do seems all that surprising. Invading the West Bank and Gaza, demolishing peoples’ homes, defying the U.S. on the settlements issue as they angle for more “foreign aid” from the clueless Americans – even running over people with tanks! – it all makes a twisted kind of sense, given the fanatical nationalism that motivates Israel’s partisans both here and in Palestine. (A fanaticism, I might add, that flourishes on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.) Yet, even amid all this emotional and political hysteria, the Israelis have often exhibited an admirable pragmatism: they were willing to make concessions (or not) depending on Israel’s national security needs at the time. Sharon’s “strategic disengagement” plan – in spite of being compromised by all sorts of hemming, hawing, and hedging – is a good example of this commonsense approach.
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