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Ted

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  • Two critiques of Norman Finkelstein
    • Ted December 27, 2011 at 12:50 pm

      The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine included the Balfour Declaration.
      Israel is a colonial-settler state base on a religious and ethnic orthodoxy founded with a jewish majority through the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian people.
      In the same way that the USA, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa, Canada and others were founded by clearing the indigenous people.
      Since at least 1967 (see USS Liberty) the USA has unconditionally supported the zionist project for its own geopolitical and geostrategic reasons.
      A significant Israel Lobby has now formed which ensures that there will be no small deviation from this support and that in line with the policy of all Israeli governments there will be no viable independent Palestinian state with E. Jerusalem as its capital as the zionist project continues to "redeem the land".

    • Ted December 27, 2011 at 8:46 am with 1 replies

      Timeline:
      1.March 1988 defeat of SADF in southern Angola
      2. May 1988 negotiations begin for Namibian independence
      3. November 1989 breach of the Berlin Wall
      4. February 11, 1990 release of Mandela
      5. March 21, 1990 Namibian independence
      6. April 27, 1994 universal adult suffrage elections in S. Africa.

      Yes I have left out many other important dates but this gives a general outline.
      Yes the ANC has not challenged the nature of the capitalist economy (land ownership, banks, mines, etc.) but that is not a new situation for any "ex-colony".
      It is "neo-colonialism" or "re-colonization".

      Remember, S. Africa had a nuclear capability due to Israeli co-operation but that capability was negotiated away by the ANC.
      USA can't have a black African government with nuclear weapons.

    • Ted December 26, 2011 at 12:09 pm with 3 replies

      S. African apartheid was defeated primarily by the defeat of the SADF's attempt of regional hegemony by Cuban, Angolan (FAPLA) and SWAPO forces in March 1988 in southern Angola at Cuito Cuanavale.
      Subsequent events like the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union led directly to the release of Mandela, the independence of Namibia and the elections in S. Africa of 1994.
      BDS campaigns don't defeat racist regimes or imperialism or zionism.

  • Libyan triumph exposes the west's double standard for Palestine
    • Ted August 23, 2011 at 4:30 pm with 1 replies

      The USA/NATO attack on Libya is NOT something to be celebrated.
      This is part of the ongoing US aggression for control of resources started in 1898.
      It's part of US Imperialism (hegemony).
      And you should see that but obviously don't.
      It calls into doubt your whole political philosophy.

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