Tuesday, September 7, 2010  Some Insight's into Israel's Hard
Left  In my post yesterday about the Sabbar Kashur story I
remembered wondering, back in July, where all the Israeli
feminists were: The answer, it seemed obvious, being that
they're lefties first, and feminists second. Well, today's
Haaretz has a piece by Meirav Michaeli, one the most vocal and
visible of our public feminists. She seems to say exactly that:
her anger at imagined Israeli racism made her oblivious to what
was really going on.  Here's another example of the hard left's
willingness to play with facts in the service of ideology. The
Geneva Initiative group have been running spots implying that
Palestinians are eager to make peace with us, while it's the
Israelis who've been interfering. There's nothing remarkable
about this - it's the consensus in most Western media, with some
notable exceptions - but these are Israelis trying to convince
the majority of Israelis who know better because we've been
closely watching the conflict all our