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It’s tough to be a liberal Zionist these days. Believing in a Jewish and democratic state, while despairing over the ongoing occupation is a recipe for criticism from both the right and the left. Wednesday night’s much-hyped debate between Peter Beinart and Daniel Gordis at Columbia University was the latest example of how a liberal Zionist can get called out publicly as to whether he is “loyal” enough to Israel and the Jewish people. And in the wake of the death of Benzion Netanyahu, Yossi Klein Halevi sums up the legacy of Revisionist Zionism: “Don’t be a fool.”