Reacting to this Noam Sheizaf post about the coverage of the tent protests, Matt Eckel examines the question:
I think the “obsession” with the Israeli left in the U.S., particularly as expressed in outlets like the New York Times which are exemplars of this broadly American liberal Zionist orientation,* has a lot to do with the cognitive dissonance between the image ‘Rabin’s Israel’ and the actual evolution of Israeli behavior and political trends. Psychologically, it’s much easier to look for reasons that reality might still fit within one’s predetermined conceptual framework than it is to change the framework itself.
Joel Beinin finds linkages between the tent protests and the Arab Spring. Shlomo Ben-Ami looks at how the spread of democracy is remaking the Middle East's geopolitical map.
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