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Derfner slams Jason Alexander as yet another ‘evenhanded liberal failure’
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Derfner slams Jason Alexander as yet another ‘evenhanded liberal failure’
by Philip Weiss on November 19, 2011 32

jason alexanderJason Alexander, the actor famous for his Seinfeld part, recently went to Israel and Palestine with the group One Voice to jumpstart the peace process. Larry Derfner has a great column on the effort at +972. (hat tip Annie) Excerpts:

Alexander writes that he’s been talking peace with Israelis and Palestinians for 20 years, which means he probably has a good deal of knowledge about the conflict, and also some perspective. So I’m convinced that privately, he’s not even-handed; privately he knows that Netanyahu and the Israeli government are the rejectionists in this deal, while Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are the conciliatory ones.... He knows the settler movement at least used to have a fight on its hands, and that it doesn’t anymore. There’s no way an intelligent, knowledgeable, liberal person, which I assume Alexander to be, can really believe that Israel’s leadership and the West Bank’s leadership are equally to blame for this long coma in the peace process.

So why does Alexander write this “yes, you can” crap? Either he’s lying to himself, or he’s afraid – afraid to blame Israel and not the Palestinians, afraid to be called a self-hating Jew, an Arab-lover, afraid of being written off as biased against Israel.

...I imagine Abbas reading his op-ed and saying, “Thanks for nothing, shmuck,” and I imagine Netanyahu reading it and saying, “That’s my boy, George.” ...He comes here to try to effect change, to push forward the two-state solution, and only ends up digging the stake another little teeny, tiny bit deeper into the two-state solution’s heart. With all due respect to Alexander’s good intentions, this is Middle East peacemaking, George Costanza-style.

the problem is that this conflict is plagued by faint-hearted, even-handed, liberal failures just like him. From Obama to Ban Ki-Moon to Sarkozy to Ashton to Blair to Merkel to Cameron, from the New York Times to CNN to the BBC, everybody out there is afraid to say out loud what, from all impressions, they know to be true: that the Israeli government is the problem here and the Palestinian Authority is not..



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