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Sunday, October 11, 2009

There's some great video of The Hudson Institute's event: U.S.-Israeli Relations at a Crossroads? Challenges to the Special Relationship. Click in the upper right corner for audio & video clips and watch Michael Oren's address, then watch the video for the panel "The War of Narratives." The panel features Aaron David Miller, Douglas Feith, Daniel Levy, and Robert Lieber. Watch the whole thing, but if you want to skip straight to the fireworks, watch Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation and pusher of the Geneva Accord, then watch Robert Lieber step out of character (the type of detached sort of demeanor people usually maintain on these things) and rip Daniel Levy a new one.

Levy is out there not only pushing discredited ideas (did these Geneva Accord people learn nothing from Oslo) and attacking far smarter people who disagree with them, but he's actively undermining Israeli democracy. Notice when he starts talking about the dysfunctional political system there and goes on about the need for America to force solutions on Israel. This is a guy whose political allies couldn't manage to convince a significant number of the Israeli voters to put them back into positions of power (NOT just the right fringe, but the mainstream of Israeli voters) and he just can't get over it, so, democracy having failed him, he goes abroad to get a great power to force his fellow citizens to what he wants. Daniel Levy is not a democrat.

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