Reply #23: Many of us do embrace Israel's liberals!

[LeftishBrit]

I certainly do.

I think we should empathize with both Israeli and Palestinian citizens (though not with their bad current governments).

I do think that, while there are certainly people who will treat Israel as a monolithic bogeynation whatever anyone says, some strongly pro-Israel people make the problem worse by being prepared to quote right-wingers as valid sources for the pro-Israel point of view. This just enhances the tendency by some on the left to see all of Israel as just a bunch of right-wingers.

Exactly the same occurs with regard to some strongly pro-Palestinian people, who sometimes quote xenophobic isolationists, other right-wingers, and at the extreme far-RW CT sites in support of their views.