I have to admit: I didn’t want to read a second article on the insipid idiot Coates. But I so love your voice, so I launched into it. And this one gave me gooseflesh—and tears of the best kind. Thank you so much for bringing to light even a bit of the backlash from the rest of the world. It does my heart good today.
I so appreciate how you dealt with the Coates book by extensively quoting a range of critical reviews. I read the New Yorker review and got the impression that the writer has pro-Palestinian sympathies but still felt the book was so self-indulgent to the point of being naval gazing. If Coates had simply remarked on the separate roads and disparate treatment issues that many of us abhor, dayenu. But instead he used those observations to come to outlandish conclusions while ignoring the realities of terrorism and extremism. It would have been enough to say that the situation as it exists is untenable in the long run; that Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in all locations need to live together in peace; and Israel needs a government that is dedicated to that. Dayenu!
This had me in tears. It’s so frustrating; yet, I’m so happy we’re not alone.
Another d--mn good one, thanks to two nonwhite women standing up for truth (and to you, of course).
I’m relieved that there are more sane people around than I expected.
Thank you again
I have to admit: I didn’t want to read a second article on the insipid idiot Coates. But I so love your voice, so I launched into it. And this one gave me gooseflesh—and tears of the best kind. Thank you so much for bringing to light even a bit of the backlash from the rest of the world. It does my heart good today.
I so appreciate how you dealt with the Coates book by extensively quoting a range of critical reviews. I read the New Yorker review and got the impression that the writer has pro-Palestinian sympathies but still felt the book was so self-indulgent to the point of being naval gazing. If Coates had simply remarked on the separate roads and disparate treatment issues that many of us abhor, dayenu. But instead he used those observations to come to outlandish conclusions while ignoring the realities of terrorism and extremism. It would have been enough to say that the situation as it exists is untenable in the long run; that Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in all locations need to live together in peace; and Israel needs a government that is dedicated to that. Dayenu!