Monday, February 23, 2004

Israel and US fate linked - rhetorical and dangerous Posted here Monday, February 23, 2004 at 11:18:11 PM     Interesting that the column does not carry through on what the blurb says. But the blurb gets at the potential logic of treating the US and Israel as having a common purpose, a common right and a common identity. OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Life Among the Bombs By MICHAEL B. OREN For Israelis and Americans, both facing the daily threat of terror, reconciling fortitude with sensitivity is the challenge of our time. Note that the writer is "Michael B. Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, is the author of "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East."  I not concerned with the opinion, but the use, by the US of Israel, to legitimate its own identity as an anti-terrorist country, and the use of the US by Israel to legitimate its impossible policies of slowly assimilating he palestinaian territories. ********