Thanks Phan, another excellent analysis.
Adal (or 3adel) means justice. Law is ‘qanun’ – we get the English word ‘canon’ from it.
Phil, it’s from Macbeth and is Macbeth’s own line in Act 3 Scene 4:
Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air:
But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe?
and is said just before the entry of Banquo’s ghost.
Yes, I would like to see Netanyahu ‘cabin’d’ and see the ghosts of all those he has had killed.
Palestine won’t be freed with the pen. International law is useless without enforcement and the British govt chose complicity with Israel when it changed its own laws to allow Livni and others to travel freely without fear of arrest for their crimes. To me, that undermines your point, and that of the Russell Tribunal, that courts are the way forward. Actions in courts will be subsequent to the liberation of Palestine, not precede it.
JeffB, like every zionist you mine history to create a narrative that is partial and therefore gives the wrong impression of what was going on. The thing is that you see Palestinians as so sub-human that you want to buy them off with economic toys when we all know that freedom is priceless and can never be bought. Until you realize that Palestinians are just as deserving of all the rights that Jews and Israelis enjoy, you will never understand why Palestinians continue to resist. But keep not understanding. It’s the fastest way to strengthen the resistance and get Palestine back.
Poor JeffB – doesn’t see that the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance have Israel caught between a rock and a hard place.
Stop spanking that poor monkey yonah. No one ever pretended that you had a good handle on motivation for human behaviour, so your inability to make sense of Palestinian behavior is perfectly explicable. But thanks ever so for continuing to display your ignorance and allowing us to enlighten you. I’m sure that nothing will penetrate the fog with which you envelope yourself but one should always be hopeful that people with your views may redeem themselves.
No yonah, it just shows your lack of understanding. If you can’t understand why people would be happy to have fought their oppressors to end part of how they are oppressed, then I suggest you get back into the line where God gives out brains. And then join the one where hearts are given out, ‘cos your compassion is infamously absent.
It’s really nice that the Israelis or the PA buffoons think they are in charge. Not even the Hamas politicians are in charge. Who is calling the shots is the Qassam Brigades. Those guys have learnt well from Hezbollah and they cannot go back to their community without having the siege lifted. Qassam Brigades don’t care about Oslo, final status talks, the standing of the PA collaborators or hasbara talking points. Qassam is only answerable to their stakeholders and they don’t live in Ramallah, Cairo, Saudi or Qatar. They live in Gaza and have been brutalized for so long they feel they have nothing left to lose. They can’t go back to the siege. Netanyahu was incredibly stupid to have started this war since things will not end up the way he wants them to. When you’ve driven a people’s collective back to the wall, they will fight like they have nothing left to lose.
Citizen, count me as another female not voting for Hillary.
Obviously the Benjamins have clouded Cuomo’s cognitive abilities and his mastery of geography and history is thus hindered. However, I want to thank you Phil for referring to the ‘foundational’ problem facing Israel in this piece: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/foundation-terroristic-expulsion.html. Comments are closed but since I’ve criticised you several times for buying into the hasbara of a non-violent Israeli past, I should give you kudos when you overcome that thinking! Cuomo and his ilk will be the last to get a clue, but they’ve already sold their souls.