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.
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.
