The New Yorker writer who learned about the Middle East from serving in the Israeli occupation army here complains that Sari Nusseibeh is not a Zionist: " This is not to say that Nusseibeh is a Zionist. For one thing, Zionists aren't in the habit of quoting — approvingly — Noam Chomsky, and Nusseibeh catalogs, sometimes at unwarranted length and in exaggerated form, the sins of Israel, particularly the sins of occupation and settlement."
(And Nusseibeh is "he is quite taken by Thomas Jefferson". That made me wonder. Is Nusseihbeh also taken by Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" (in which he says "the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind" and he compares African-Amerians to monkeys?) Just wondering.)