it's interesting that someone in the GUARDIAN liked the current situation in Israel/Palestine to that of France/Algeria in 1954. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
________________________________ From: PEN-L list on behalf of Shane Mage Sent: Sun 10/31/2004 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L] 50th Anniversary of a calamitous adventure Exactly 50 years ago, a dissident, secret, armed faction of the Algerian mass party MTLD (Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Freedoms) launched a series of armed attacks against French government facilities in Algeria. There followed a long "liberation" war marked by a mounting series of atrocities on both sides. The result was separation of Algeria from the French Republic, forcible expulsion of the whole "European" (largely working class) population of Algeria, destruction of France's Fourth Republic and installation of the semi-dictatorial deGaulle regime, establishment in Algeria of a semi-fascist military dictatorship (Boumedienne), and an endless series of calamities for the Algerian workers and peasants. Who in Algeria (except a handful of Officers, Bureaucrats, and Capitalists) is not today much worse off from every point of view than if Jacques Soustelle's offer of full integration had been (per impossibile) accepted? Shane Mage "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals, living their deaths, dying their lives" Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
