On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara <[email protected]>wrote:
> "The project to found Israel as a settler state was and still is ?a > crime?, > said comrade Conrad. But that crime has resulted in the coming into > being > of > an Israeli Jewish, or Hebrew, nation and a working class solution must > recognise this reality. While comrade Conrad could envisage the > necessity > of > expelling recent Israeli settlers from the West Bank as part of an > agreed > democratic settlement, it was out of the question to talk about > uprooting > the Israeli Jewish people as a whole. The Israeli Jewish nation, > like any > other, has the right to self-determination, so long as it is not > exercised > at the expense of the oppression of other peoples. > > In my opinion, comrade Conrad spends a little too long worrying about the existence and future of the 'Jewish nation', 'Hebrew nation', etc and too little time worrying about the only nation in that region under existential threat and that is the Palestinian nation. Just a small point. MATT. --- 'In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.' Proclamation of Independence, 1916. 'The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.' Karl Marx, 1852. [email protected] ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
