The lowest form of solidarity, I remember reading somewhere, is generational. What do you have to do, after all, to qualify as a “baby boomer”? Membership in that vast sodality means that you were in your late teens or early twenties during the sixties: an underwhelming achievement that required no more than being able to say “present.” As someone born in 1949, I prefer to consider myself not a mere sixties person but a soixante-huitard. If there didn’t happen to be French argot for this, I would still want to answer to the name “sixty-eighter.”

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Gershon Baskin, writing in the Jerusalem Post, is “proud and pleased” to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. He adds,

I WILL be very happy to see the day when the Palestinians have their own Independence Day to celebrate. That day too will be a celebration for Israel and for Zionism. Today being pro-Israel by definition must mean that one is also pro-Palestinian. The fate and future of these two people are linked to their ability to find a way to live side-by-side in peace - in two separate states.

Baskin is the Co-CEO of the Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information (IPCRI).

A new column by a certain Christopher Hitchens available here.