Why so angry? I might not phrase it in quite the way you do and I don't agree all Palestinian politicians are Islamists, but do you think there's anything you say about the political strategy which should have been followed that I would disagree with? And it has everything to do with political exhaustion, like it or not. Anyone who has ever been on the losing side in a labour or other social struggle, where the relationship of forces is overwhemingly adverse, knows justice or militancy doesn't always or mostly triumph over raw power. We're not talking "poetry" here.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Exhausted Palestinians > This is just garbage poetry. It has nothing to do with exhaustion. It has to > do with whether you can win something, and how you can win it, i.e. > political strategy. Palestinian politicians thought they could substitute > Islam for politics, whereas they ought to have been splitting Jewish opinion > in an effective way, uniting with the Israeli Left and progressive liberal > opinion, against Judeo-Hitlerite fascism funded by American christianists. > The Western Left just adapts to bourgeois discussions about anti-semitism, > but it has nothing to do with the real politics of it. > > Jurriaan
