By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
"Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama have one thing very much in common: both of them have nearly the same vision for the future of “Palestine”. They may not recognize it yet, but sooner or later, whether Netanyahu remains in power or is replaced by someone who speaks Dove-Liberalese better, they will shake hands and agree that the only thing that really separated them in the early months of President Obama’s administration was semantics: the language each man used to describe what he saw for the future of Palestine, or “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” –a phrase that suggests there are two sides each with a grievance that equals or cancels out the other’s and that makes a just resolution so difficult to formulate.
How deeply have we been indoctrinated." (more)
Friday, June 5, 2009
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<span style="">"What is new and innovative in Obama’s vision is that the ‘two-state solution’ he is aiming for will now conform to the ‘no-Palestinian-state’ requirement of the revisionist Jewish State since Jabotinsky’s day; a solution that Netanyahu and his predecessors (in Israel and the US) have fostered for so long and with such care."</span>
ReplyDeleteThat about sums it up
<span style="">"Perhaps someone ought to point out to him the irony that his next stop after Cairo is not Gaza City or Beirut where he might help to heal the very recent and very real wartime wounds inflicted on these tortured societies, but Buchenwald, a death camp from the Nazi era, located in the now former East Germany? Certainly Obama ought to be the first to practice what he himself preaches by showing compassion to the recent and innocent victims of an entirely illegal and premeditated slaughter than by rushing off for photo ops at one of the mighty symbols of a depraved Holocaust industry? --one whose finely tuned ideology seeks justification for every act of inhumanity based on the grievance of past inhumanity?"</span>
ReplyDeleteRed light
ReplyDeleteStop
Green light
Go
Red light
Green light
Red light
Green light
Stop
Stop
Go
Go
Red light
Red light
Where's the green light
A pregnant woman in a car
Gives birth in a car
The boy grows up
Falls in love
And gets married in a car
Has children
And reads magazines and newspapers
In a car
They round him up
They draft him and he dies a martyr
Behind the windscreen of a car
They bury him under the wheels of a car
And the car is still in the street
Waiting for the green light
Red light
Stop
Green light
Go
Red light green light
(Palestinian Poet Muin Besseisso)