Wow....
Looks like HuffPo spilled the beans on Goldberg...
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Jeff Goldberg of the Atlantic is a little young for the “oy, the goyim are coming to kill us” disease. Marty Peretz didn’t contract the disease until his early 50’s, while Ed Koch and Alan Dershowitz didn’t become afflicted until fairly recently.
None of those guys would have dreamed of enlisting in the IDF in their early twenties. Koch was in the American army and came home to reform the Manhattan Democratic party. Peretz was anti-Vietnam war organizer at Brandeis and then Harvard. Dershowitz was hard at work becoming an expert on the US Constitution. In other words, they were fairly typical Jewish liberals who became reactionary and parochial as they aged. Like 99.9% of American Jews, they did not consider joining the Israeli army (Why? Because they are Americans? In fact, until the late 1960’s, joining a foreign army resulted in loss of US citizenship).
But Goldberg is another breed of cat. Not comfortable in this country, Goldberg emigrated from the United States to Israel in his early 20’s, and joined the Israeli army. There he served as a prison guard, inflicting punishment on, in Goldberg’s words, “so-called [Palestinian] administrative detainees. They had been put in jail without charge and without trial, by military order, for a six month term, renewable at the discretion of a military judge, who did what the Shabak [Shin Bet security service] told him to do.”
Unlike other right-wing defenders of the occupation, Jeff Goldberg didn’t just talk the talk. Goldberg walked the walk.
He enforced the occupation which he now defends in his writings.
Looks like HuffPo spilled the beans on Goldberg...
The Evolution of Jeff Goldberg: From Prison Guard in the West Bank to Lobby Poster Boy
I am not going to deconstruct a Goldberg column. His biography tells you everything you need to know about him. The sad thing is that he is only 45. Imagine how ethnocentric and terrified he will be at 60.
Jeff Goldberg of the Atlantic is a little young for the “oy, the goyim are coming to kill us” disease. Marty Peretz didn’t contract the disease until his early 50’s, while Ed Koch and Alan Dershowitz didn’t become afflicted until fairly recently.
None of those guys would have dreamed of enlisting in the IDF in their early twenties. Koch was in the American army and came home to reform the Manhattan Democratic party. Peretz was anti-Vietnam war organizer at Brandeis and then Harvard. Dershowitz was hard at work becoming an expert on the US Constitution. In other words, they were fairly typical Jewish liberals who became reactionary and parochial as they aged. Like 99.9% of American Jews, they did not consider joining the Israeli army (Why? Because they are Americans? In fact, until the late 1960’s, joining a foreign army resulted in loss of US citizenship).
But Goldberg is another breed of cat. Not comfortable in this country, Goldberg emigrated from the United States to Israel in his early 20’s, and joined the Israeli army. There he served as a prison guard, inflicting punishment on, in Goldberg’s words, “so-called [Palestinian] administrative detainees. They had been put in jail without charge and without trial, by military order, for a six month term, renewable at the discretion of a military judge, who did what the Shabak [Shin Bet security service] told him to do.”
Unlike other right-wing defenders of the occupation, Jeff Goldberg didn’t just talk the talk. Goldberg walked the walk.
He enforced the occupation which he now defends in his writings.
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