"Fictions on the Ground": Tony Judt on Settlements

I have recently taken great pleasure in reading Tony Judt's book Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century. Perceptive, witty, clear-eyed, and careful, his essays are doorways into intellectual and social worlds that he rightly argues have been too quickly forgotten in our mini-epoch bracketed by the Berlin Wall and Boyle's Law. 

Judt published an article in the New York Times this week on the thuggish criminality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and America's irreducible role in supporting them. It is a short piece, and better not excerpted. Read it here.