Two comments on http://www.thenation.com/blog/177690/nation-and-palestinians#:

1. Typical Zionist nonsense.

Israel is an Apartheid state created through ethnic cleansing and which commits ethnic cleansing today not just against people in occupied territories, but against its own Arab citizens from Negev to Haifa.

There never has been a slave who would have loved his master, yet you Zionists demand that Palestinians should have only warm thoughts of every Zionist who oppresses them with American financial and political support.

Real people don't love those that oppress them, nor those who enable the oppression.

2. The simple fact is that even "progressive" US publications like The Nation tend to act like they are walking on a minefield when it comes to criticism of the Israeli regime and that shows.

The Nation also tends to have the typical American liberal habit of viewing the conflict in Palestine from the Jewish viewpoint, even when criticizing Israel, thus making Palestinians subordinate to Jewish history and Jewish concerns and when the conflict is thus not seen in a neutral but Jewish context, even the most well-meaning writer can't avoid some pro-Israel bias.

Palestinians and other Middle Eastern people like Lebanese who have suffered at the hands of Israel have their own independent history, their own independent existence and their experiences deserve to be viewed on their own terms also, not just as part of Jewish history which always tends to end up involving the Holocaust and then the inclination of viewing Israeli actions with less criticism than if it's ruling ethnic-religious group would not have that experience.