Gideon Levy Responds to Herzog: Proud to Be Outside of Your Camp
Levy responds to Herzog: Proud to be outside of your camp - Opinion The nationalism and near-racism expressed by Issac Herzog, the loyal spokesman for the center-left, is obvious. www.haaretz.com I thank Isaac Herzog for his businesslike reply Tuesday (“Levy’s one state is no vision of hope”) and for the opportunity to respond to the heart of the matter. I may be outside the camp, but I’m certainly not with Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel. We have nothing in common except the vast void between us; but to be honest, I don’t have much in common with Herzog, either. Ariel may want a single state between the river and the sea, but that state will never be democratic and egalitarian. The right wants the entire land, and at best is willing to let a nation with inferior rights live in it. The world calls that apartheid. Here in Israel we must fight this. Herzog isn’t so far from there. If you scrape off the layers of makeup, you’ll find within