Events in Egypt have reinforced my sense of living in a universe different than the one inhabited by Israel’s most vicious critics (let’s call them IMVCs) in the blogosphere. Oh, we have a few things in common. Like them, I am inspired by the Egyptian crowds demanding the overthrow of a tyrant. Like them, I am appalled by the continuing Israeli occupation and settlement expansion and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.
But they still appear to reside in a kind of alternate reality, harboring assumptions that do not apply to the universe I know. Here are two of those assumptions:
1. The Israel lobby in the U.S. is the only reason America propped up Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and his corrupt regime for so long.
2. There was and is something inherently wrong with the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
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