In South Africa, Its Almost Supernatural blog challenges the logic that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza is meaningless as long as it continues to hold onto the West Bank.
It takes all the illogic that stems directly from blind hatred to think that Israel should relinquish all her assets before moving to the negotiating table. Israel cannot give up the West Bank without an end of conflict peace deal. When negotiations take place both sides will make compromises in order to extract concessions from the other side. To suggest that Israel should make all of their concessions without getting anything in return from the Palestinians is to confine yourself to the marginalised confines of political discourse.
The blog was responding to the following crude Jonathan Shapiro cartoon in the Mail & Guardian:
Unfortunately, the Mail & Guardian isn’t alone. Patrick Chappatte of Geneva’s Le Temps made a similar assertion.
