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Andrew wrote: Notice the emphasis on reviving private business to challenge Hamas. A similar emphasis is in this WSJ article two days earlier: My Comment: Thanks for the link Andrew. Indeed it is interesting to see the line emerging that a neo-liberal impulse among the Palestinians will somehow save the Zionist project. The problem is that Zionism cannot live alongside the full integration of the Arabs into the economy and public life. I have lived through a similar dilemma in Northern Ireland. There the 'Protestant parliament for a Protestant people' eventually crashed on the demographic reef of a Catholic population that was too big to marginalise politically and indeed dominate militarily. Currently it seems that public opinion polls show that up to a third of Palestinians want to abandon the Oslo accords and become fully integrated into Israel. And much is being made of that. There was also a considerable percentage of Northern Irish Catholics who wanted closer contact with the Protestant majority. But of course that was never on offer. Nor is anything like equality on offer to Arabs within the entity of Israel. A final thought: there is possibly another parallel here. At a certain level Apartheid in South Africa did not make sense for capitalism. Similarly apartheid Zionism is also making less and less sense from a capitalist perspective and that I think is an element, though probably only at a sub-conscious level in Bronner's thinking. comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
