Thursday, June 30, 2011  A Response to a Comment  This post is a
response to a comment that was left on my previous post. For
ease, I am reproducing it here and will respond to it below. I
wanted to say thank you to the commenter, and I appreciate
having a discussion about the issues raised in the comment,
because they are very important and at the heart of the conflict
between Israel and Palestine. The comment is: But why grant the
authority to a non-Israeli citizen to define the character of
the Israeli state? The citizens of Israel define who they are,
no one else. Why give other people the opportunity to
delegitimize Israel? Does Israel have a law against citizens
forming parties outside of Zionism? I'm quite sure the answer is
no considering they ARE a democracy. I'm also quite sure because
there are a lot of post-Zionists not locked up in prison. So,
how can Israel require a non-Israeli citizen to, essentially,
join their political party/ideology to be worthy of
negotiations? I dont think its necessary