Israel's Problem

I put out this article on August 1, 2019 and it can still be found at https://theamericansun.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/bap-on-israels-problem/ ; it is topical now still because it seems this conflict never stops being “of interest.”

Jabotinsky relaxing on a beach while Israeli settler colonial scouts plant orange groves outside Ashkelon, 1955

Some on dissident right troll about Israel as ethnostate or unapologetic nationalist state. It’s stock argument on the non-neocon right. It’s very strong. There is yet no answer to this trolling at least from those who would support Israeli nationalism but use extreme and immoderate language—“Nazis,” “nativists”—to refer to the same in other parts of the world. Richard Spencer confounded an Israel apologist with this argument in public, and it was a great embarrassment for the upholders of this double standard. (Spencer, who is not my fan, nor I his, must be given this credit nevertheless, and it must also be said: he was physically attacked soon af…