beginning with the khazars, you can't loose what you never had;

On December 22, only days before Christmas, Haaretz’s Editorial Board issued an editorial titled, “Israel Is Losing Its Humanity in Gaza”. The short article outlined a fear that has for years been pervasive amongst Liberal Zionists: that the crimes being perpetrated in Gaza are betraying the values of an otherwise upstanding and moral settler colony. The Zionist project, to them, is something of a legitimate state that is only now failing to live up to the standards of conduct it is expected to commit to. 

A piece intended to be both an admission of guilt and a call to do better was ultimately nothing more than a fictitious accounting of the colony’s history – one that called upon a better, more moral time. By detracting from the history of violence resulting from the colony and painting a revisionist picture of a morally upstanding (though sometimes problematic) and ultimately legitimate, maybe even reformable, project, they did what many Liberal Zionists have attempted to do for decades: avoid an uncomfortable and inescapable truth about the project they so desperately cling to and support..........more........