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Yes, I'm aware of his lack of principle on the subjects you've mentioned alongside Egypt. I mentioned him in regret that it's hard to find an anti-Zionist, anti-Assad analysis. Thanks for the blog! > On Jul 24, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Andrew Pollack <acpolla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just remember, if you share Pham's post, what a dangerously unprincipled > opportunist he is. For instance, his latest post is about the FSA disowning > JAN (al-Nusra, the Al Qaeda group) for its atrocities -- yet Pham himself not > that long ago was denouncing leftists who criticized JAN! > > Not to mention his "hurrah" for the Zionist attack on Syria etc. etc. etc. > > If you want a genuine anti-Zionist, anti-Assad effort, check out > http://menasolnetus.wordpress.com/ and on Facebook the Syrian Revolution > Support Bases group. > > >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Anas via Marxism >> <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: >> ====================================================================== >> Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >> ====================================================================== >> >> >> I have read Binh's recent article >> (http://notgeorgesabra.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/selective-internationalism-an-activist-disorder/) >> on the relation between Palestine and Syria and saw a statistic from FP >> that more than 700 people have been killed in Syria between Thursday and >> Friday >> (http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/21/overlooked_syrian_conflict_hits_new_death_toll_record?utm_content=buffer89172&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer) >> >> Even facts like how Assad has substantially displaced more Palestinians than >> Israel has this year tend to be interpreted as apologetic for Israel. >> >> Fortunately, I had found this amazing line that seemed to really convey why >> the Palestinian struggle is famous in a recent article by Adam shatz.. This >> explanation can't be easily characterized as whitewashing Israel: >> >> "Do you know why we are so famous?" Mahmoud Darwish asks the Israeli writer >> Helit Yeshurun inPalestine as Metaphor. "It's because you are our enemy. The >> interest in the Palestinian question flows from the interest in the Jewish >> question…. It's you they're interested in, not me!… So we have the >> misfortune of having an enemy, Israel, with so many sympathizers in the >> world, and we have the good fortune that our enemy is Israel, since Jews are >> the center of the world. You have given us our defeat, our weakness, our >> renown." As Darwish suggests, this concern for the Palestinians is not a >> matter of anti-Semitism, as Israel supporters claim, so much as it is a >> reflection of self-absorption: the Palestinians are important to the West >> because, through their oppression by Israeli Jews, they have become >> characters in a Western narrative." >> >> (I encourage you to read the full article. We should have more writers on >> the region like Adam Shatz, and less of Chris Hedges and Robert Fisk (and >> plenty others in zmag, counterpunch) who view the Middle East as a >> geopolitical entity that revolves around America.) >> >> I'm afraid by the time the Syrian question becomes popular, all Syrians >> would be dead already. And it will stay unpopular for as long as the players >> involved aren't Israeli Jews or Westerners* as Mahmoud Darwich, in the usual >> Palestinian acerbic wit, demonstrates. >> >> http://m.thenation.com/article/180663-writers-or-missionaries >> >> *As western jihadists going to fight in Syria garner more discussion in >> western papers of record and media than the victims of the war >> ________________________________________________ >> Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu >> Set your options at: >> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
