LONDON GUARDIAN: END ISRAEL

Rose's leap of faith (HonestReporting)

The Guardian gave op-ed ink to writer John Rose, who argues that Mideast peace requires a “post-Zionist” Jewish assimilation into Arab culture:

Israeli intellectuals associated with the trend known as post-Zionism imagine with confidence a Jewish life in the area without a Zionist state. A tiny number of former Zionist leaders, such as Meron Benvenisti, one-time deputy mayor of Jerusalem, agree. He says the Zionist revolution is over. He suggests scrapping the law of return that allows Jews anywhere to become Israeli citizens.

He says he loves the land and it's an Arabic land. Perhaps the old Jewish Enlightenment thinkers who believed in assimilation were much more correct than even they realised. Imagine the great-great-grandchildren of European Jewish settlers in Palestine assimilating into Arabic culture, absorbing it and contributing to its development, some time this century.

A leap of faith? To be sure, but we Jews have always been rather good at that.

Mitch Bard offers a clearer picture of Rose's required leap of faith.