"Palestine is a little country. But what is being done in Palestine is symptomatic of the entire state of the world.
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"Palestine is a little country. But what is being done in Palestine is symptomatic of the entire state of the world. It is the methods of settlement being used in Palestine, rather than the particular settlement which may be reached, to which I wish to direct attention. These methods, I will try to show, are disastrous; and if we persist in using them elsewhere in the world — and there is every indication that we shall — the result can only be violence and war."
Before The Atlantic hired a former Israeli prison guard to edit its pages, it was capable of producing meaningful reporting and analysis on the Middle East.
In February 1947, W.T. Stace of Princeton's Department of Philosophy, made short shrift of the Zionist movement's claims to sovereignty in Palestine; argued that its policy of colonization and drive for statehood, violating the principle of self-determination of the existing population, constituted the primary aggression producing conflict; dismantled the justifications for British and US support for Zionism; and concluded with the following warning:
"This is the real lesson of Palestine. It is not an isolated issue. It touches the future of the whole world. Just as Guernica was a good testing ground for German and Italian methods of war, so Palestine is the testing ground of our peace policies. Our methods there, our whole emotional and irrational approach to the problem, expose the hollowness and futility of our protestations about peace."
Well worth a read, and certainly better than the slop produced by The Atlantic in recent years.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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