He's a best-selling novelist; his first, titled "Allenby," was about the seedy underside of Tel Aviv life and was set in strip clubs. And in a country where opinion makers tend to pick a political camp and stick with it, Taub has consistently criticized the post-Zionists of the left as well as the ultranationalists on the right."If the road to partition is blocked, Israel will be forced to choose Heart tag charm Toggle bracelet two terrible options: Jewish-dominated apartheid or non-Jewish democracy. If Israel opts for apartheid, as the settlers wish, Israel will betray the beliefs it was founded on, become a pariah state and provoke the Arab population to an understandable rebellion. If a non-Jewish democracy is formally established, it is sure to be dysfunctional."
"These are the people of yesterday not because of their age - they are not old - but they are backward looking," he said of the Israeli government. "What Netanyahu is trying to do is cling to Pierced charm bracelet status quo, and there is no such thing as status quo in politics. They seem not to understand the most critical dangers Israel is facing. Settlement is going to sink us into a binational condition with an Arab majority and this will not be a Switzerland. This will be a Lebanon."TEL AVIV (JTA) - Gadi Taub rests one hand on an oversized brown envelope that Heart Band Bangle the galley proofs of yet another book - this time a two-part collection of essays. In the other hand he holds what came in the day's mail - the just-published English version of his newest book, "The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism."
Taub, 45, an author, historian and newspaper columnist, is not your typical Israeli social critic. He is a former host of children's TV programs. He quotes Alexis de Tocqueville and John Dewey. He sports a pair of silver hoop earrings. He's a best-selling novelist; his first, titled "Allenby," was about the seedy underside of Tel Aviv life and was set in strip clubs. And in a country Tiffany Notes I Love You bangle opinion makers tend to pick a political camp and stick with it, Taub has consistently criticized the post-Zionists of the left as well as the ultranationalists on the right.These days he's preaching a 21st century version of doom for Israel - lest, he says, its leaders and people wise up, not only to the dangers of a potentially nuclear Iran but, as he sees it, the self-destructive settlement policy in the West Bank.
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