I have often talked about the connection between political justice and social justice. This article makes a similar point, in the context of the sudden rise of the social issue on the Israeli agenda. Social justice can’t come without political justice, and vice versa, if only for pragmatic reasons. Without economic recovery, the middle class in Israel will continue to shrink, and the lower classes will suffer more. There will be no recovery in the Israeli economy unless the conflict is resolved. And the conflict will not be resolved without justice for the Palestinians.
“It is easy, perhaps, but absurdly misguided, to accuse Netanyahu of being a cruel and heartless Thatcherite, yet say nothing of the fact that he is, above all, a sworn political hawk, a hardliner who is now preaching political radicalism of the kind that brought about the destruction of Jewish independence at the time of the Second Temple.”
