Great article

Great article

Originally shared by Jeff Zahari

“But of course, there is a sense in which Israel is not free. It is trapped in a colonial conflict that its founders chose, unsentimentally. That trap is essential to the very constitution of the Israeli state, inescapably rooted in the project from the very beginning. A growing minority of Israeli intellectuals and journalists have seen where this is going. The Israeli historian Ze’ev Sternhell, whose Polish family was wiped out by the Nazis, has been warning for years that choosing conflict in perpetuity would fertilise the ground for fascism. He once said that only someone willing to crush the West Bank settlements with tanks could stop the fascist flood.”