The right-wing responses to @PeterBeinart's article are very telling. They show a striking inability to engage with the arguments the article actually makes. They reflect the intellectual exhaustion of Anglo-American Zionism.

So instead we get:
"American Jews like Peter can't criticize Israel or write articles like this because they don't live in Israel" (that never stops Israeli para-state orgs or institutions [JNF etc] from demanding that diaspora Jews support them—we shouldn't)
"Democratizing the one-state, apartheid-style regime is wrong because the privileged group in this regime doesn't support it"
And a version of the futility thesis: "supporting an equality framework is too unrealistic, and therefore it isn't worth trying, and not only that, it would likely lead to disaster"
There's minimal engagement with important questions like: Is the status quo just? What are the dangers of maintaining the status quo? What's the best way to guarantee Palestinian equality? What has Zionism done to Jewish identity and Judaism?
And the reason for that is Anglo-American Zionists can't justify maintaining the status quo on the terms it exists—doing so would require them embracing an expressly illiberal regime, making explicit that they believe Jewish-Israeli dominance should supersede Palestinian rights
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