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Democratic Israel lives: Responding to Omer Bartov yet again

JL;DR SUMMARY Menachem Z. Rosensaft critically responds to Professor Omer Bartov's New York Times interview where Bartov accused Israel of heading towards becoming an apartheid authoritarian state and committing genocide in Gaza. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasIsraeli DemocracyPalestinian Israeli ConflictHuman RightsNetanyahu GovernmentGaza ConflictApartheid AccusationsMiddle East PoliticsOmer Bartov

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"What of the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who demonstrate regularly against the Netanyahu government in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other Israeli cities and towns, calling for a ceasefire and the return of the hostages?"
Jerusalem, Israel
"What of the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who demonstrate regularly against the Netanyahu government in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other Israeli cities and towns, calling for a ceasefire and the return of the hostages?"
Stockholm, Sweden
"In December 1988, I was one of five American Jews who broke the taboo on interactions with the Palestine Liberation Organization by meeting with Yasir Arafat and other leaders of the PLO in Stockholm."
New York, United States
"In a wide-ranging interview in yesterdays New York Times, professor Omer Bartov doubled down on his charge that Israel is not only perpetrating a genocide in Gaza but is on its way to becoming, in his words, a full-blown apartheid authoritarian state."

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