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"As to Hamas and its actions in the Occupied Territories, I know that the organization is one of the only ones expressing resistance.... Yet for any secular intellectual to make a devil's pact with a religious movement is, I think, to substitute convenience for principle. It is simply the other side of the pact we made during the past several decades with dictatorship and nationalism, for example, supporting Saddam Hussein when he went to war with"the Persians." " He [Arafat] never really reined in Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which suited Israel perfectly so that it would have a ready-made excuse to use the so-called martyrs' (mindless) suicide bombings to further diminish and punish the whole people. If there is one thing that has done us more harm as a cause than Arafat's ruinous regime, it is this calamitous policy of killing Israeli civilians, which further proves to the world that we are indeed terrorists and an immoral movement. For what gain, no one has been able to say. (From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, p. 185.)" " They don’t have a message about the future" My humble thoughts about Hamas, which I have been following since its foundation. Hamas has been a disaster for Palestinians and their struggle for their liberation from occupation. No wonder he was supported by Israel from the very beginning. All those Islamist movements whose primary goal is the creation of an Islamic state do not need any support from the left. Islam has no solution for contemporary problems and causes great damage in societies where it has become the leading political option. "They don’t have a message about the future" Leftists, especially those who consider themselves Marxists, should remember what happened to the Marxists in Iran, where they initially supported the Iranian Islamic revolution. The Iranian Revolution and the Crisis in the Left: A Pathway to a New Understanding of Dialectics in Marxism - IMHO Journal ( https://imhojournal.org/articles/iranian-revolution-crisis-left-pathway-new-understanding-dialectics-marxism/ ) "If you consider the pro-Islamic fundamentalist anti-imperialism from a reactionary pre-capitalist standpoint (which was a historical element of the Asiatic mode of production), the lack of understanding of the dialectical relationship of appearance to essence, for example in respect to human liberation and freedom which should have been the ultimate goal of the revolutionary movement was set aside for the mere appearance of anti-imperialist action on the part of the pro-Islamic movement." I apologise for my editing after posting my comment. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30717): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30717 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106591523/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
