It appears that the day before Peter Beinart launched his excellent new blog, someone published another blog under the domain zionsquare.com devoted to making hard-right arguments on Israel. Liel Leibovitz lambastes the site's anonymous proprietors:
It is tempting to ignore this pitiful little bleep on the Web. At the moment, zionsquare.com, unlike Beinart’s elegant site, contains little save blurry graphics and those Danny Ayalon videos you’ve watched a hundred times on YouTube. And I would ignore it, if it weren’t for its cowardly use of what is quickly becoming a bona fide tactic for right-wing hysterics. Like the Columbia student who claimed she was steered away from a pro-Palestinian class—her findings were investigated and promptly dismissed — the perpetrators behind zionsquare.com hope that tactical anonymity might only increase their appeal.
Which gives me a chance to link to another stirring piece on Peter's new group-blog: Aryeh Cohen on how his experiences in Israel made him a post-Zionist. Money quote:
I have been back in the US for almost 25 years now, and have returned to Israel infrequently. On one of my trips, as my cab driver was pulling out of the Jerusalem Plaza Hotel where I was staying, I noticed the banner on the World Zionist Organization building, which was across the street. It read: “Zionism will win.” This statement flummoxed me. To my understanding, the goal of the Zionist enterprise was to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. This goal was accomplished in 1948. What did it mean to win now? How much more “winning” was there?
There's a whole West Bank to annex permanently. With American aid, and help. Remember: this is no longer the Israel lobby. It's the Greater Israel lobby.
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