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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 5:12 PM
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The Knesset voted today to revoke the parliamentary privileges of MK Hanin Zoabi, an Arab deputy who participated in the ill-fated flotilla that attempted to break the Israeli siege of Gaza last May. The scene in the Knesset appears to have devolved into something of a circus: A deputy from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party handed MK Zoabi a mock Iranian passport, accusing her of joining the ranks of Israel's enemies.
As luck would have it, I had dinner last night with Israel's Minister of Minorities Avishay Braverman, a member of the Labor Party. Did rescinding MK Zoabi's privileges represent a breach of Israel's much-touted equality between its Jewish citizens and its Arab minority, which represent one-fifth of Israel's population? While he condemned her actions, Braverman also said, "I do not support this sort of populist action" against Zoabi.
This is just the latest dispute between Braverman and
Lieberman, who have come to represent opposite poles in the debate over Israel's
policy toward its Arab minority. And Braverman left little doubt about his
opinion toward his coalition partner: When asked about the possibility of
population swaps between Israel and a nascent Palestinian state in the event of
a peace agreement, an idea for which Lieberman voiced support, Braverman
said, "It will never happen. Never never...What Foreign Minister Lieberman is
doing is making statements to win a few seats."
And then there is Lierberman's call for instituting a loyalty oath that Arab Israelis would have to sign to sign or losing their citizenship, which some have credited with Lieberman's strong showing in Israel's most recent election. This idea, Braverman said, was shot down by the Labor Party ministers and even right-wing ministers, such as Benny Begin. But before it was rejected, Braverman said, "Lieberman got his headlines."
The defeat of these initiatives is certainly encouraging. Less encouraging, however, is the apparently enduring belief, held by a number of successful right-wing politicians, that flogging Israel's Arab minority is a useful way to win votes. Effective political grandstanding on this issue, after all, could easily transform itself into changes in government policy that could erode Israel's commitment to equality, and take Western support along with it.
The difference between Braverman and Lieberman is between good PR and bad PR. When Braverman's Labor was in power it was settling the West Bank just as Lieberman and Netanyahu are now. There's something uncomfortable about the FP's David Kenner and Braverman sitting round at dinner tut-tutting about Lieberman, given Braverman’s party’s role in creating facts on the ground – as they’re presumably still doing given Braverman’s role as a cabinet minister in Netanyahu’s government. Kenner's dinner does though provide a nice metaphor for the American liberal establishment's relationship with Israeli politics.
I feel the need to comment on this...
...if only to correct the mistaken, scurrilous assertion that I am in any way a liberal.
That said, I think that it's certainly valid to criticize Labor and Braverman for presiding over the expansion of West Bank settlements. I chose to cover a different issue in the post above -- the treatment of Israeli Arabs -- because it was what Braverman discussed, in the news with the Zoabi story, and a more pertinent issue than the Barak-era settlement expansion.
Whoops - I stand corrected!
On a different point David, as an editor at FP, you couldn't do something about all the spam on the site? Couldn't some of FP's interns just delete it?
Ugh, yes, we're very sorry for all the spam. I just deleted it manually from this post -- but frankly it's hard to catch all of it, not to mention time-consuming (it's almost 9pm and I'm still in the office, so it's not like we're loafing around over here). That said, I understand that it's frustrating and we should do a better job policing the comments section, and hopefully we can come up with some system in the future. I wish I could come up with a more concrete answer, but for the moment just please accept my apologies for it all.
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