By Stephen Prager* – Pearls and Irritations “There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one,” wrote Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz this past weekend. The Israeli Knesset hosted a conference on Tuesday in which far-right politicians and settlers openly discussed a “proposed plan” to cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians and annex it for Israel. At the conference, titled “The Gaza Riviera–from vision to reality,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel...
