Goldblog sees the protests at the Syria-Israeli border as a little too convenient, and regards even Ethan Bronner as a sap for Hamas. Freddie deBoer, meanwhile, thinks Goldblog is changing the subject himself:
What’s interesting is that Goldberg is doing what he accuses the repressive Syrian regime of doing: he is using another set of protests as a distraction from the moral valence of the protests that are inconvenient to him.
But is it not possible that the Syrian demonstrations were obviously manipulated by Assad and that the Arab Spring is redefining the Arab-Israeli conflict, to Israel’s disadvantage? Note what Peter Beinart and others have indeed noted: the protests in the West Bank were kept from the borders. Netanyahu has an opportunity here, to get ahead of, or not so behind, the march of history. Will he fail again?
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