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As'ad AbuKhalil's response, while more critical, is also worth reading.
link to angryarab.blogspot.com
Without knowing for sure, I think it's just as likely that easily-accessible Internet media came into their own about the time he hit his 80s.
So now, on top of everything else, it's on the verge of being owned by an Israeli military contractor! I suggest comrades in Los Angeles put this useful information to work, if they haven't already.
Don't forget to sign the petition:
link to salsa.democracyinaction.org
"Hamas, which is one of the two major Palestinian political factions, is an Islamist terrorist group whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, refuses to recognize Israel's existence, and calls Osama Bin Laden a 'martyr.'"
I didn't even have to look at Hamas' 1988 charter (link to thejerusalemfund.org) to confirm that never mentions Bin Laden's 2011 death. (For the curious, it never mentions him at all, either.)
"The reason non-violent resistance works, when it does, is that it shows the enemy they have nothing to fear from you."
Horse$#!+.
I apologize to you and the editors for my barely-veiled crudity, but really, no other response can possibly suffice here.
There may have once been a nonviolent decolonization strategy that worked without a parallel armed strategy, but it does not spring to my mind. Those (in some cases partially) successful cases that do - Ireland, India, Algeria, Vietnam, South Africa (and the rest of the sub-Saharan continent), the civil rights/Black Power movement(s) in the United States, etc., etc. - all combined the two. This was not equivalent to "cheating on their girlfriend," because, as I say of the Palestinian national movement above, nobody in these struggles ever promised monogamy.
And when you "show ... the enemy they have nothing to fear from you," that's usually been their cue to give you jack squat for another century.
I'm really sitting here scratching my head over your comment. Is there some favorable example you can propose, or expanded argument we can consider, that might color it more favorably? Because right now, it simply looks like standard Zionist rhetoric (for external consumption only, of course!), devoid of any historical substance.
Although thoughtful and well-intentioned, this dichotomy between "violent" and "non-violent" resistance is wholly alien to the Palestinian discourse:
link to aljazeera.com
link to electronicintifada.net
And the BDS call, while advocating a specific set of "non-violent punitive measures," did not commit anyone to utilize them to the exclusion of others:
link to bdsmovement.net
Enjoy your lull! Can the A Team post other people's stuff, if any of us hit on something really good?
I think the title's the best part: "Israel Seeks Army Use of West Bank Area." There's something definitively Zionist in its omission of any - shall we say? - complicating factors. Hell, when they put that way, it hardly even seems like a story!
I take it LUN, for Lusaka, Zambia, didn't fit? #geek
There's an extent to which they're right. The use of occupation law by supporters of Palestinian freedom is not without its fallacies and drawbacks.
link to jadaliyya.com
link to jadaliyya.com
"Which one was I suppose to be looking at when I worshiped? Which one deserved our allegiance?"
I'm no Torah scholar, but if that quaint business about not making an idol for yourself, bowing down to it, or worshiping it means anything at all, I'm pretty sure the correct answer is "none of the above."
This modern crop of Jews (and Catholics, and Protestants) makes one nostalgic for the Hebrews of 66, who launched the Great Revolt after Caligula demanded they profane their Temple with an idol of the state.
Now their spiritual heirs don't even wait to be asked. Pretty lame if you ask me.
“And you know what, the reason why that campaign is so effective isn’t merely because of cash, although it helps. The reason is that there is simply a lot to attack. The Palestinian people may be suffering, but they are not by and large liberals.”
Cue Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth (1961):
“Western bourgeois racial prejudice as regards the nigger and the Arab is a racism of contempt; it is a racism which minimizes what it hates. Bourgeois ideology, however, which is the proclamation of an essential equality between men, manages to appear logical in its own eyes by inviting the sub-men to become human, and to take as their prototype Western humanity as incarnated in the Western bourgeoisie.”
Now my turn:
Your discourse displays the standard Western liberal fallacy of proclaiming deep concern for people as abstractions, while ignoring them as actual people. The great majority of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, who by all accounts voted disproportionately and overwhelmingly for Hamas, certainly must have thought it had something going for it.
And this rhetorical trick of yours, where you carry on as if the awfulness of Hamas were obvious to everyone, while never explaining what it is? Not too impressive!
But, you know what? If Western liberals find Palestinian society too illiberal for their tastes, their most obvious choice is to stay away from Palestine. How about that? As Lennon sang, “It isn’t hard to do.” And whatever else you think of Hamas, they’ve always made it perfectly clear that their mandate begins and ends entirely within Palestine’s historic borders.
There is nothing about "defend[ing] posters depicting an alleged victim of rape and pedophilia as a missile" at the link to that effect, although the author does claim toward the end that they were "posted throught (sic) Williamsburg." Nor does Gestetner "sneeringly dismiss" anything, although the same cannot be said of Failed Messiah.
I find myself sharing more ground with the former than the latter, who hyperventilates: "You and your community are under siege, Yossi, because you derserve to be." Gestetner sticks with a straightforward "innocent until proven guilty" line that I find both perfectly reasonable and far more palatable than FM's breathless panic.
"didn’t know how to download the tweets (still don’t actually)"
Oh, that part's easy. When you're looking at your timeline, the results of a search for tweets, etc., select the individual tweet you want to use by clicking on the timestamp to its right. Then when it opens, select "Embed this Tweet," and Twitter will give you the exact HTML code to copy and paste.
P.S. @ThisIsGaZa is another MW contributor, Refaat Alareer.
*Coughs* spelling of my name *coughs* not an egotist, really.
Unless you're referring to another set of acronyms, or there are recent developments of which I'm unaware, I think you're criticizing the wrong organizations.
link to google.com
link to google.com
A rather notable street, in fact:
http://openshuhadastreet.org
A friendly tip to the editors: When the first image in a post is unusually-shaped, like the one above, no thumbnail will appear alongside it when readers post it to Facebook. I'm told that this is known to drastically reduce the clicks it will receive.
Perhaps you could keep a folder of normally-shaped, often-useful images, like the ones I've linked below, on hand?
link to bdsmovement.net
link to imemc.org
I believe “sumud” would be a more descriptive term, incorporating as it does the virtues of both restraint and resistance.
link to thisweekinpalestine.com
Well, let's all be extra-careful not to call anyone following these marching orders an "Israel Firster." Remember, that would be "virulent hate speech" (link to articles.nydailynews.com).
Several commentators here are taking Phil's thoughts, which were good as far as they went, way too far. The displacement and subjugation of indigenous populations is a current and ongoing process today, in North America no less than Palestine. I posted these two links to an excellent information gateway below, but here they are again:
link to intercontinentalcry.org
link to intercontinentalcry.org
If Zionists remind us that ours is also a settler state, whose crimes are no less modern, perhaps they will, inadvertently, have done something good for once.
Well-said, Phil. I would add, however, that none of this excuses us settler colonialists from our responsibility to fully support ongoing indigenous struggles for self-determination and decolonization in our neck of the woods. Here are a couple of relevant pages from a site that seems to be as good of a jumping-off point as any other:
link to intercontinentalcry.org
link to intercontinentalcry.org
Pretty much every organization in the "North America" section of the second link badly needs your money. But if you absolutely aren't in a position to do anything else, why not drop a letter in the mail to Leonard Peltier occasionally?
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info
I'm being overly-cautious, but to avoid any possibility of confusion, let's remember that many products made in the '67 territories ARE Palestinian. Those manufactured by settlers are not.
"disarmament of non-state militias"
Ahem. Let's not forget that this would affect one party exclusively, removing every means of physical defense from the colonized, while leaving the colonizer unhindered.
As for "put[ting] the full weight of the United States behind the establishment of a Palestine and Israel Truth and Reconciliation Commission" and requiring "[a]ny stakeholder who enters into this process ... [to] pledge to work for a solution that respects the rights of all involved," I rather suspect that most Palestinians have had their fill of performing the proper genuflections to Uncle Sam. How about if he just takes his bombs, guns, planes, tanks, and endless supply of cash, and GTFOs?
It's all theoretical, of course, but as fantasyland politics goes, this is pretty lame. Give me a good old-fashioned Trot any day.
She was pretty great, wasn't she? I'd never heard of her until tonight, but she's on Twitter: link to twitter.com
1. Kudos to Johnny for his great report from the front!
2. To all commentators referencing an alleged "border": There's none there. There's an apartheid wall, manned by gunners and artillery units, preventing refugees and other Palestinians from accessing the great majority of their country. But the supposed "border" of the so-called "Gaza Strip" has no more legitimacy than the lines separating another apartheid unit, the "Republic of Bophuthatswana," from the rest of South Africa.
Sorry, I just noticed that you specified Google+. (In my defense, it's late here!) Same album, different Google platform:
link to plus.google.com
Thanks! It's up here.
link to picasaweb.google.com
I'm not sure I agree. It's barely a secret that Israel would like nothing more than to pawn the Gaza Strip onto Egypt, as it's been trying to do since Camp David. Ridding itself of 1.7 million militant Palestinians and separating them politically from the rest of their country would ease its burden tremendously and open a world of new possibilities, such as the annexation of the West Bank on Zionist terms (link to j.mp), for it. And transferring the Gaza Strip from Israel's power grid to Egypt's would be history's single biggest step in that direction to date.
Here's video of Ilan Pappé and audio of Ali Abunimah.
link to electronicintifada.net
I hope somebody brought a portable stereo to play Johnny Cash.
"San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell!
May your walls fall, and may I live to tell.
May all the world regret you ever stood,
And may all the world regret you did no good."
link to youtube.com