The wars will end when Palestinians can return
JVL Introduction
Peter Beinart’s views of the Israel-Palestine conflict have evolved remarkably over the last decade.
He has now started his own regular blog, The Beinart Notebook, which you can subscribe to at a number of levels – from receiving free newsletters to a fuller participation.
In this latest post, Beinart links the Palestinian right of return and Biden’s foreign policy.
In “avoiding the issue of Israel-Palestine in roughly the same way Donald Trump avoided the issue of climate change”, he writes, Biden is “ignoring the problem and fuelling it at the same time.”
Biden’s failure to act to stop the evictors in East Jerusalem reminds us all that Israel was founded in an act of mass expulsion.
Beinart faces the implications of this squarely: “How can Jews, who did not give up on returning to our homeland for two thousand years, tell Palestinians to do so after 75? Do we think we’re the only ones who know how not to forget?”
Read on…
This article was originally published by The Beinary Notebook on Wed 12 May 2021. Read the original here.
The wars will end when Palestinians can return
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