PrintJuly 17, 2011
My Response to Efraim Karsh
In "Israel's Human Chameleon Strikes Again" (American Thinker, 10 July 2011), Efraim Karsh compares me to Woody Allen's Zelig, a character who ignobly adapts to each and every political and ideological environment. And while I would certainly like to star in a Woody Allen movie, I'm afraid that Karsh -- as usual -- is selling his readers a bill of goods conjured up in a febrile and obsessive mind.
He charges me with "ideological acrobatics," that I am pro-Zionist one day and anti-Zionist another. This is balderdash. I have always been a Zionist, believing in the legitimacy and necessity of the establishment and perpetuation of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, the historic patrimony of the Jewish people. At the same time, I have not been uncritical of Zionist thinking and praxis at certain points in the movement's history.
I wrote, in Righteous Victims (1999), that Zionism was a "colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement ... intent on politically,...(Read Full Article)
