http://mondoweiss.net/2014/04/liberal-schizophrenia-promised.html

Liberal schizophrenia and moral myopia: On Ari Shavit’s ‘My Promised Land’

Alex Kane on April 3, 2014 

Ari Shavit has placed all his hope in Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

In January, the Haaretz columnist and toast of the U.S. media called the leaked details of Kerry’s “framework” agreement for peace a “Zionist victory” since it includes “recognition of a Jewish state in the 1967 borders with minor adjustments.” Earlier this month, he decried the “offensive” being waged against Israel’s demands that the Palestinian recognize the country as a “Jewish state.”

So Shavit has gone all in on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultimatum to the Palestinians.  And if you read his new book My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, you’ll understand why.  Shavit is devoted to liberal Zionism, an ideology that pushes a peace agreement to save Israel’s Jewish character in the face of “demographic threats”–non-Jewish bodies.  He’s so devoted to liberal Zionism that he excuses ethnic cleansing, a war crime, because it enabled the Jewish state.