Amos Oz and the Literary Soviet demand Popular Front with the Communists!

The headline in Haaretz today (Nov 16) is that literary leftist Amos Oz is leading the signal for Israelis to join the new expanded Neo-Meretz party, to be renamed the Social Democratic Party, which will be composed (his words) of “ex-members of Meretz, humans deserting the Labor Party, Greens, and those who support Dov Chanin.” Dov Chanin is the Stalinist who just ran for Mayor of Tel Aviv and got about a third of the votes. So Amos Oz’ shout is essentially one to create a popular front with communists. Anyone who has read history knows who ends up grabbing control of such pluralistic democratic popular fronts that include communists as participants.

More generally, I really think the moment has enlarged come for renaming Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman, all of whom are among the central figures in that

new popular front, the “Literary Soviet.” In Hebrew it sounds even better: Ha-Soviet Ha-Sifruti. Amos Oz declares in the Haaretz headline that “the Israeli Labor Party has finished its historic mission.” I am a little confused by that. I thought the Labor Party’s historic mission, at least these past 2 decades, has been to annihilate Israel, yet Israel is still standing. Oz and his buddies do not think Labor is pro-Palestinian and appeasing ample!

In part, the Literary Soviet and their comrades are taking advantage of the fact that the lemmings in the Labor Party are fleeing THAT sinking ship by the cruiseship-full. Ami Ayalon is the latest to resign from Labor Party, and plans to set up his own mini-party. All Labor will soon be left with is Ehud Barak and Avishai Braverman, the “professor” who turned Ben Gurion University into the Bir Zeit of the Negev.

Original post by Steven Plaut