How far should we push our attack on
Netanyahu and the neocons? In an earlier column, I accused the Israeli
leader and his supporters of "dealing from the bottom of the deck,
consciously stirring up irrational fear of a second Holocaust at the
hands of Iran simply to bolster Israel's strategic role as a regional
super power." They are still doing exactly that, and I'm even more
convinced that "Jews and non-Jews alike should reject this as the
cynical ploy it is."
But this is just an analytical starting
point. We need to act in a way that makes the point to Congress, grabs
Netanyahu's attention, and perhaps saves "the nightmare man" from
himself. As the top-notch Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote last
month in Haaretz, the success of sanctions in persuading Iran to seek a
negotiated settlement suggests that similar sanctions "will get Israel
to end the occupation" of the West Bank. The first step, he argues, is
the movement now building in Europe and the United States to boycott the
settlements.
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