To get an impartial picture of events in Georgia, especially in the first week after August 8, one had to rely on the foreign press - for example the excellent summary article by Thomas de Waal in the Guardian for August 10. James Traub, who wrote the New York Times lead in the Week in Review for August 10, conceded that "Georgians are a melodramatic people, and few more so than their hyperactive president," but Traub himself chose to summon the melodramatic year 1938; and only in paragraph 20 did he come to recount Saakashvili's ill-advised act of "retaking" Abkhazia. The main Times reporter in Georgia, CJ. Olivers, made efforts at objectivity that grew sharper as the fight went on, but the straight stories by Olivers were often accompanied by "color" reporting from Andrew Kramer, who ...
... had to look outside the American press, to Gideon Levy in Haaretz, who wrote on August 17 in a piece...
[Gideon Levy] is like a political paleontologist who picks apart the bones of Israeli history. Returning recently, via the archives of Haaretz, to 1967, he referred to the time of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors as "the time of big lies: lies about the great danger that lay at our doorstep- a danger that was bogus or inflated - and lies about the territories that were temporarily 'liberated,' " to be used as bargaining chips for an ill-defined peace that "we may not have really been aiming for even then. It was a gradual process. There was no single incident involved. I didn't suddenly see the light. When I first started covering the West Bank for Haaretz, I was young and brainwashed. My "journalism school" was the Israeli Army Radio Station, which was not the kin...
The crowd was addressed by parliamentarians and leaders of different political parties. Liberal Member of Parliament Denis Coderre called for a more measured, peacemaking stance than that shown by the present government. More outspoken in criticism of the Israeli actions were André Boisclair, leader of the provincial separatist Parti Québecois, and Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Québecois, the separatist party that functions federally. Representatives of two minor parties, the Greens and Québec Solidaire, a more leftwing separatist party, also addressed the demonstrators. These two parties have no elected members either provincially or federally. One MP going on the trip with Mazen Shouaib, the Executive Director of the Council, is Wajid Khan, a Muslim from Pakistan. In a surprise m...
... for the tree of the field is man's life." Gideon Levy, the Ha'aretz journalist who covers Palestini...
You have turned your back on the courageous and prominent Israeli peace movement which normally reflects the positions of half of the Israeli population. You've never met with any of its leaders - even those in the Knesset or former officials in the military, intelligence and Justice Ministries. Hundreds of reserve combat officers and soldiers of the IDF have refused, in their words, "to fight beyond the 1967 borders to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire population." They pledged only to fight for Israel's legitimate defense. (www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp) Once in a while, ask your aides for a sample of Israeli opinion that rejects the notion that there can be a military solution to this conflict, despite the military imbalance. For example, reports and editorials in ...
... "Ha'aretz" commentary dated July 16th, Gideon Levy writes, "In Gaza, a soldier is abducted from ...
As Gideon Levy, a leading columnist from "Haaretz," put it, "1948 was Israel's finest hour, the culmination of a mad dream: the formation of an independent Jewish state." At the same time he declared, "it was our darkest hour, in which we committed war crimes on a large scale. And did so in all good conscience. According to Sylvain Cypel, a leading correspondent for "Le Monde," the full version of that U.N. resolution was never published in its entirety in Hebrew. The reason for that may be simple. From the beginning Israel's future leaders were determined that the Jewish state, carved out of the British mandate, would be just a first step toward the eventual takeover of all the land of Palestine. As David Ben Gurion, who would become Israel's first prime minister, confided to Labor Pa...
During the 2008-9 invasion of Gaza, [Avigdor Lieberman] wanted the military operation to continue until Hamas "loses the will to fight." In a speech at Bar-Dan University, he said Israel's government had "to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting." Lieberman concluded in the January 13 Jerusalem Post. "We must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War ?. Then, too, the occupation of the country was unnecessary." In 1945, U.S. Air Force planes dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan surrendered unconditionally. Yes, a small minority vigorously criticize Israeli government policy - there, not here in the United States, where a Member of Congress characterized an attack by the Israeli lobby as the ...
... invasion as botii a failure and immoral (Gideon Levy, February 19, 2009). Similar criticism in a U...
[Nolan Finley] shows a blindness to this when he claims Israel's massacre of over 120 Palestinians a third of them children - was "motivated only by self-defense." An occupying army killing occupied peoples cannot claim self-defense as a moral justification for the use of force. They are in an offensive position, they are the invaders. Finley also wrote without a sense of irony, "The Palestinians have used violence to further their political goals without consequence." And Israel uses nonviolent tactics, right? It was by putting their bodies in front of tanks that Israel was able to divide Palestine into Occupied Territories? Finley should read Gideon Levy's article, "Heads to the right," in last week's 'Haaretz. (The article is reprinted on page 4. Levy talks about the seminary where t...
While the work he is doing has not made him popular, he is commited to continuing. His words that evening echoed the accusation that had often been flung in the faces of Germans after their defeat. He said that Israelis did not want to know what was happening in the Territories. As [Gideon Levy], the child of Holocaust survivors, put it, "Some time in the future Israelis will be asked, 'What did you do while these things were happening to Palestinians? Did you just keep silent when these things were done on your behalf?' At least Ha'aretz readers can't say they didn't know. He charged that Israel has done everything they could to undermine the Palestinian Authority. Israel complained that Arafat did not rope in the militants. When Levy asked an Israeli general why, if Israel wanted Ara...
I've heard that Palestinians invited these brutal measures when they elected Hamas during internationally-observed elections, because Hamas refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Setting aside that the elections were about corruption, Palestinians said nothing when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert invited Avigdor Leiberman to his cabinet. Leiberman, once praised by Jewish extremists for supporting the deportation of Palestinians inside Israel, is known as an avid racist. On February 22, 2006, Israel's Gideon Levy of Haaretz reported on a disturbing story. "Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weissglas, as usual, provided the punch line: 'It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but...
In Robert Hirschfields interview with Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy ("Israel's Gadfly," Sept. 2009), Levy referred to the Six-Day War as "the time of big lies: lies about the great danger that lay at our doorstep-a danger that was bogus or inflated-and lies about the territories that were temporarily 'liberated,' to be used as bargaining chips for an ill-defined peace that "we may not have really been aiming for even then. Finally, Slavoj Zizek has no special knowledge to write about the settlements ("Making the Illegal Legal," Oct. 2009). He is correct that the occupation has a "Kafkaesque" quality to it, with a bureaucracy that works to the detriment of Palestinians, but his attack on "Israeli liberals" is gratuitous and his attack on Israel's Supreme Court is at least partially unfa...
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