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Ha'aretz: West Bank settlement isn't irreversible

Israeli settlement of the West Bank is untenable, and framing it as inevitable just makes matters worse.

By Elia Leibowitz

In honor of the Ninth of Av, my friend Yossi Sarid wrote a lamentation for the State of Israel. He included excerpts of the writings of another intellectual, Meron Benvenisti, who preceded Sarid in making gloomy predictions about Israel's future. Indeed, Israel of 2012 should be the subject of regret, as in "Weep sore for him who goes away" (Jeremiah 22:10). In this case, the ones going away are the passengers aboard the modern-day Titanic, better known as Israel, whose captains do not see the iceberg ahead if they stay on course. While the gloomy mood and sorrow in Sarid's essay are fully justified, his lamentation is based on two mistaken theories.

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