Two weeks back, my correspondent AC sent me the following note about nonviolent protest of the Gaza war in the West Bank.
FYI, although Israel is the chief culprit in quashing non-violent
protest, it has, with the assistance of Gen. Dayton and U.S. taxpayers
(see here & here), a willing abettor, the PA. Here's but one instance of the PA suppressing non-violent protest of the Gaza war: The point isn't that their suppressing protest -- everyone does that
--, it's that their doing in in collusion. Vichy regime comes to mind.
I was uncomfortable with the Vichy word and challenged AC. Yes, I mean Vichy, he said. I asked Adam Horowitz and he said, AC's view is widely shared among Palestinians. I never got around to running his statement. My bad. Today this Times of London several times quotes Palestinian speakers comparing the Fatah leadership to a Vichy government supporting the occupation.
Note that the Times piece does front-and-center what the New York Times has not been able to do: report that the 2-state solution is all but dead, on both sides.
The better analogy is Kwazulu or Transkei: a bantustan cooperating under duress with a colonial regime.
What's your problem Otto? You can't let the Palestrinians make their own analogies? Feel you're better educated? Our do you feel that your society is better than theirs?
The Palestinians made a choice, learn to live with it or get out of the way. If they feel that the majority of the west bank is a traitor to the Palestinian cause and they all deserve to die in a bloody civil war, it is their right to proclaim and make that war.
And you have absolutely no right to stop them from shredding each other into cloe slaw for their ideals.
Just shut up and get out of the way. You have no business sticking your big fat nose into the business of the true palestinian.
Please! Another pointless idiotic personal attack from Chris Berel. If anyone deserves to be banned, it is he.
Otto, good point. "Vichy" or "Quisling" metaphors are apt enough but Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party is the perfect analogy to Fatah's PA.
Tree, sorry to see your lack of an education forces you to attack greatness.
Otto: The better analogy is Kwazulu or Transkei: a bantustan cooperating under duress with a colonial regime.
Exactly.