Exhausted Palestinians
Palestinian morale is at its lowest ebb and the impotent Palestinian Authority is debating whether to dissolve itself, according to Harvey Morris in todays Financial Times all in keeping with the Sharon governments game plan. Palestinian academics and politicians told Morris that, 10 years after its founding, the PA had reached a dead end unable to garner effective international support for a viable independent state, or, alternatively, to lead a popular resistance movement to the Israeli occupation, the latter task having fallen to the Islamist parties. As Morris notes, the beleaguered Palestinians are at a crossroads: either capitulate to the surrender terms on offer from the Sharon government, or abandon the two-state solution in favour of an anti-apartheid struggle for democratic and human rights in a single binational state of Hebrew- and Arabic-speakers. In an accompanying sidebar, however, Morris reports how Israel intends to keep the Palestinians outside as a cheap labour pool while annexing part of occupied territory containing the settlements through a series of bypass tunnels and bridges augmenting the border wall. Financial Times (sub only) article reproduced on www.supportingfacts.com. Sorry for any cross posting.
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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
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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
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Why so angry? Well perhaps I should watch my language. But I don't think it is a question of exhaustion. J.
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cool it, with rhetoric such as garbage poetry. On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:15:52PM +0100, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: 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 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
