Taking on Water
Posted by middleeast on November 6th, 2011
31 October, 2011 3 Heshvan, 5772
Taking on Water
Sir,–With Larry Derfner’s understandable departure from The Jerusalem Post, there is no longer a truly outspoken Left-Zionist to balance the regular and outspoken Right-Zionism of Caroline B. Glick, Michael Freund, Isi Leibler, Sarah Honig (in your weekend magazine) and others. Nobody at all is around to say, as would Derfner with conscience and courage, that the West Bank is the world’s last neo-colonialist misadventure, or to expose the transparent fallacies of so much of Israel’s hasbara that are perfectly obvious to most of the world — except to the “converted” who speak only to the converted.
And so, just as with Israel’s isolation in the world, so the Post has become more isolated and poorer, sometimes listing so far over to one side as almost to be taking on water.
JAMES ADLER