Yigal Elam’s response to the ACPR position
paper detailing the dangers inherent in the Oslo process and its
derivatives is a rare mixture of defamatory dogma and ignominious
ignorance, heavily spiced with the impudent arrogance of the
self-proclaimed righteous. Elam begins his tirade by a priori
disqualifying the validity of his political opponents’ position
without providing any substantial rationale or factual evidence to back up
his position. He attempts to repudiate the positions set out by the
ACPR paper by pompously claiming a monopoly on political wisdom and
moral probity for his own curious blend of appeasement and
self-contradictory national effacement. Thus Elam heaps abuse on those
who would assertively defend Jewish nationalism, yet apparently views with
great favor concessions to foster Palestinian nationalism. He purports to
speak in the name of enlightened democratic values yet suggests that
promoting them requires acquiescing to the demands of the most tyrannical
elements on the face of the planet who represent the very antithesis of
the values he allegedly cherishes. Throughout his rambling diatribe, Elam
eschews, with admirable consistency, any semblance of an attempt to
present reasoned arguments or accurate data in order to refute the
reasoned arguments and factual data presented in the ACPR analysis.
Instead he tries to intimidate the reader and with a torrent of bullying,
unfounded and disingenuous invective in the hope that this will somehow
undermine his opponents’ positions. Is this the best that the Israeli
“left” can muster??
