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"The most pressing problem with the settlements is not that they are obstacles to a final peace accord, which is how settlement critics have often framed the issue. The danger is that they will doom Zionism itself," Taub wrote in an Op-Ed in The New York Times at the end of August."If the road to partition is blocked, Israel will be forced to choose between two terrible options: Tiffany Signature bangle -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."Sitting on the back patio of a favorite Tel Aviv bistro called Orna and Ella, the end of Israel seems far off amid the clattering of dishes and cream-colored linen tablecloths.

It was here and at another trendy Tel Aviv restaurant that Taub wrote "The Settlers" in both Hebrew and English.The book reads like something of a call to action, a plea for Israelis to wake up and Tiffany Signature bangle what he says is the disaster of the settlement enterprise. To achieve that aim, he weaves history with journalistic-style anecdotes, always hitting on the same theme: that settlement stands in direct opposition to Zionism's goal of creating a viable, independent Jewish state.Taub says he hopes his fellow countrymen "get it" even if Israel's current leaders do not."These are Tiffany & Co. bangle 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 the 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."The Jewish people's right to self determination can only be secured in an area where there is a Jewish majority, he says.Taub's own Zionism runs deep in a family where his Tiffany 1837 interlocking circles bangle grandparents were chalutzim, pioneers of Israel. They came from Poland to what was then British Mandate Palestine in 1920 to help be among the founders of a Jewish homeland. Taub's grandmother split stones to pave roads in the Galilee, and his grandfather worked draining the swamps of Palestine.