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‘NYT’ Publishes Op-Ed Saying There are ‘too many Palestinians and Arabs’ in Israel

August 15, 2012   ·   0 Comments

Source: Mondoweiss

By Philip Weiss:

“Preserving Israel’s Uncertain Status Quo,” by Aaron David Miller on the Times Op-Ed page, includes this disturbing argument:

Yes Israel has serious worries… The country’s demographics look bad — too many ultra-Orthodox Jews, Palestinians and Israeli Arabs and not enough secular Jews.

Search for these phrases in the New York Times: Too many blacks in Alabama. Too many Jews in New York City.

Note that Obama’s friend Eric Yoffie, a liberal Zionist, has used the same phrase,“too many Arabs.” I.e., you don’t pay a price for such rhetoric in the U.S. No; you get into the New York Times!

By the way, the thrust of the Aaron David Miller analysis is that things are not bad in Israel, especially in light of the uncertainties of the Arab Spring. Israel is the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, and the so-called economic peace in the West Bank has “generated more than a manageable status quo.”

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

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