This is not sent to Israel but to other members of the list ( so, Jared,
please discipline your scribomania, and do not answer this)- namely, I want
to ask you something: isn't all of this, this manichean picture, just too
black and white for your taste?
Regardless of my opinion on Albert- I do not know the man in person so I
don't like to give public comments- I would like to examine, for a moment,
this "ZNet problem". You have ZNet web site. Many people, I think thousands
of people, are going there for main references. It was, as a matter of fact,
the first progressive web site I have encountered on the net, some years
ago. So, this web site has a great potential. Many of people present on this
list, concerned with problems raging from capitalism to imperialism, could
get involved, with their writings ( and I am still subbed to this list
because of some extraordinary articles and writings), involved in ZNet, and
contribute to awareness-raising of young , progressive people visiting this
popular lefty web site as their "first step" . From your point of view.
Besides Patrick Bond I haven't seen any article of yours there. Why? I think
this is a mistake.
Secondly, the reputation which ZNet is enjoying is based on plurality of
thing presented there.
It is true, you have OTPOR, you have Free Serbia , two disgusting neoliberal
youth camps, related to DOS goons, linked to Z, but you also have some of my
articles there, and articles of the people who were very much against
bombing of my country: take Herman or Said for instance. I would mention
Chomsky too, but I know that there is ( as far as my opinion is worth ,
irrational) resistance towards his works. But Herman, and even Albert, were
very aggressive towards NATO- you can see this in their works in Kosovo
pages. And, again yes, on the same pages you can find voices of Kosovo
Albanians. But I do not think that this is a mistake. I think, on the
contrary , that this is an advantage. Plurality is always more convincing
than chiaroscuro of some deluded activist.....Man can assess different
arguments and make up his/her mind, according to their quality. I wish that
reality was that simple as some people are experiencing it. Listen to this
sentence, for example:
> Your leaders should be protected! Please, think in that direction! All
>your leaders'lives are in danger!
What sort of worshipping is this? Some sort of neo-paganism?
Again, coming to my point , expressed many times on this list: people who
wish to help Yugoslavs, and who have never been in Yugoslavia, like Israel
and his friends, must embrace a more complex picture and more complex critic
if they want to help people suffering there.
Every intelligent progressive person, after reading those lines quoted
above, would react very negatively with respect to NATO aggression. Things
are not this simple. And if you want to be involved in Yugoslavian, Cuban,
Latin American problems, you have to build your positions on arguments, not
on insults and simplifications. Unless it is just a case of self-promotion.
Please, try to understand this arguments and to think about them, before
deleting this letter.
Comradely,
Andrej
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