In an incendiary polemic, Baruch Kimmerling attacks the violent policies of Ariel Sharon and argues that failure to see that Israeli and Palestinian fates are intertwined could reduce the Jewish state to a footnote in history. Chris Bunting reports
TO his enemies, Baruch Kimmerling is a traitor: a Jew who has betrayed his Jewishness. He has been accused of supporting the massacre of his fellow Israelis. Some rabid critics have even compared the writings of this survivor of the Holocaust to Hitler's Mein Kampf.
But if the Hebrew University sociologist's previous work has left a smouldering resentment among many of his countrymen, his latest book, Politicide - Ariel Sharon's War against the Palestinians, seems set to throw a stick of dynamite on the flames. Full article