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I watched the Jon Snow Channel 4 piece on Gaza last nite on Youtube and it was magnificent. It was simple decent outrage about what is happening. I also looked up Uri Avnery, of Gush Shalom, to see what he was saying. I was provoked into this by a Washington Post piece which claimed the Israeli peace camp activists were behind Netanyahu. I have been critical of Avery's dream of a respectable Zionism, but his article was very good in its description of the 'mediators' < http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/>. They are an execrable bunch, especially the loathsome Tony Blair. There was also a discussion on Al Jazeera English that I sat through. What stuck with me most was the metaphor of 'mowing the lawn' to describe what Israel was up to in Gaza. The metaphor describes perfectly the thinking within Israel. It totally dehumanizes the Palestinians and positions them as the Feared/Despised Other. More than anything else the metaphor speaks to the moral bankruptcy of the Zionists. It also masks only slightly a fear that the Palestinians cannot be beaten. The grass will grow again and again and again. The political futility of trying to destroy Palestine is obvious to all but the most depraved. We now have a 72 hour truce. I hope that Netanyahu will have trouble in getting the killing frenzy going again. When the blood lust has cooled, I believe that even within Israel the realization that they have anathematized themselves will begin to penetrate. If nothing else they will see it in the eyes of their biggest supporters. Obama and Kerry will continue in public to speak in glowing terms of Israel, but when they leave the obligatory meeting with Netanyahu et al, they will hasten to wash their hands. No one likes the butcher and the torturer - the performer of the dirty business upon which all structures of oppression and exploitation necessarily rest. That is what Israel has become, an ever so eager peddler of dirty deeds. Some light unto the nations! comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
