So you end up simply repeating yourself again and again until I have succeeded in boring myself, let alone everybody else with my thoughts. We can say how it epxoses the hyocrisy of Israel/US/western pious lies about humanitarain interst, but that applies to Zimbabwe and sudan and a lot of other places that don't get the media traction. But that's cos Israel are white, they're supposed to be civilised (not like the african/s American/asian), they're supposed to be the good guys. We're not so much annoyed at what they're doing as we are at making us look as bad as everybody else. we imagine that is pto everyone else, but of course they already knew. No, it exposes the lie of our imagined exceptional human compassion to ourselves.
We've bent over backwards for years to excuse the Israelis (ie ourselves), but this time too far. keep to the Fen Causeway
It also began the chain that I hope will turn into an online school at: http://www.beyondwarispeace.com/training/. It will take more work than I have time for, but I have made it a priority now.
In addition to what you said about the 'white' aspect, there is also the aspect that we most likely know, or have known, many Jews in our life, sometimes intimately. But rarely have I had a relationship with someone who was identified as a Palestinian or a Darfurian...or who held the history of the Philippines as part of their constantly at the surface narrative.
Hamas launched rockets (never mentioning the blockade, the wall, the checkpoints, the harassment, and so on)
It would seem you are right. This time the clever excuses and sanctimonity have crossed the line. Perhaps the powers that be there feel that they are in the same position as the corporate socialists and criminals of the last 8 years - they have one last chance to suck everything dry.
Boring as it is, if it isn't constantly pointed out, and the narrative refined by the interchange of ideas, then we make it easier for them to make us into a well adjusted apathetic 'other'. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
