tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953485279984346002024-03-18T20:11:57.126-07:00At a slight angle to the universeJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-36234452365947470842021-06-14T07:54:00.000-07:002021-06-14T07:54:43.777-07:00<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ME AND MONDOWEISS</span></span></p><p>
</p><p><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;">Preparing for a conversation with MondoWeiss founder Phil Weiss this week (see just below) I had a look at what I had published there over the years. Some of my articles have already been posted in this occasional blog, but I thought it might be useful to collect all of them in one place. So here, below the webinar announcement, are all of them.</span></span></span><br /></span><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt;"><span></span></span></strong></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/30648548/290198387/-2099106627?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRUFDVC9QRUFDVC8xLzcyNTAxIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjRlZmM1MzUyLWYxY2EtZWIxMS1hN2FkLTUwMWFjNTdiOGZhNyIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiamprMTIzQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0Ig0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=K-zzN8BLnsTcvj2h6KfyqD7d6X2Zk7de2mkYqEz0_go=&emci=59fced64-e2ca-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=4efc5352-f1ca-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=255154"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">The Israel
Lobby and the Growing Movement for a New US Policy Toward the Palestinians,
with Phil Weiss</span></strong></a></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2021/03/ruger-profits-by-selling-murder-weapons-in-israel-and-the-u-s/">Ruger profits by selling murder weapons in Israel, and the U.S.</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2021/03/ruger-profits-by-selling-murder-weapons-in-israel-and-the-u-s/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2021-03-29T12:40:33-04:00">March 29, 2021</time></a>
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<p>Ruger is getting unwelcome publicity because its gun was used in
Colorado massacre last week. A new campaign calls on the company to stop
selling weapons to Israel, which has used them to kill or injure
hundreds in Palestine, including the killing of Ali Abu Alia, 15, in
December, when he was protesting settlers taking his village lands in
the occupied West Bank. </p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2019/05/plenty-benjamins-boston/">Plenty of Benjamins here in Boston!</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2019/05/plenty-benjamins-boston/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2019-05-08T11:05:34-04:00">May 8, 2019</time></a>
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<p>AIPAC’s promotion of a recent New England leadership dinner in
Boston at $300 a head shows that the leading Israel lobby group raised
nearly $5 million from just one region of the country. So when
pro-Israel voices say that Ilhan Omar is wrong, AIPAC doesn’t work by
raising money, they’re trying to deceive you. </p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2018/12/remembering-african-yahabibi/">Remembering a South African freedom fighter called ‘Yahabibi’</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2018/12/remembering-african-yahabibi/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2018-12-26T09:54:23-05:00">December 26, 2018</time></a>
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<p>Jeff Klein remembers South African fighter Jabulani Jali, a former
member of the ANC’s armed wing the uMkhonto we Sizwe, after his passing
earlier this year. </p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/israelis-massachusetts-israel/">Israelis need Massachusetts a lot more than Massachusetts needs Israel</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/israelis-massachusetts-israel/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2017-07-21T11:24:02-04:00">July 21, 2017</time></a>
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<p>Proponents of law targeting BDS in Massachusetts argue that
Israeli companies would leave the state if the legislature fails to pass
anti-BDS act. That’s frankly absurd. Israel needs Massachusetts much
more than Massachusetts needs Israel.</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2017/04/settlement-massachusetts-democratic/">Settlement opponents appeal to Massachusetts Democratic Party to pass resolution tomorrow</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/ron-fox/" rel="author" title="Posts by Ron Fox">Ron Fox</a> and <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2017/04/settlement-massachusetts-democratic/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2017-04-28T11:47:39-04:00">April 28, 2017</time></a>
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<p>Ron Fox, a 77-year-old Jewish Democrat in Mass., urges the party’s
state committee to condemn Israeli settlements: “For 45 years, not a
day has gone by that I have not thought about human rights violations
caused by settlements.”</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/say-hello-to-zenobia-a-report-from-palmyra-rising-from-the-ashes/">‘Say Hello to Zenobia’: A report from Palmyra rising from the ashes</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/say-hello-to-zenobia-a-report-from-palmyra-rising-from-the-ashes/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2016-04-20T11:17:31-04:00">April 20, 2016</time></a>
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<p>Jeff Klein reports on the horrific devastation left in the wake of
the ISIS occupation of the world-famous ancient city of Palmyra and the
neighboring Syrian town of Tadmor. He traveled there with a delegation
that was the very first group of international civilians to view the
site in the aftermath of the battle that took place there.</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/without-seatbelts-in-the-west-bank/">Without seatbelts in the West Bank</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/without-seatbelts-in-the-west-bank/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2016-04-06T07:55:44-04:00">April 6, 2016</time></a>
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<p>Regulations on seat belts and smoking for Palestinians in the West
Bank may be good for their health, but they were imposed by a
government they didn’t get to vote for. Another reminder of oppression
of occupation.</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/morbid-symptoms-in-palestine/">‘Morbid symptoms’ in Palestine</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/morbid-symptoms-in-palestine/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2016-04-03T11:07:03-04:00">April 3, 2016</time></a>
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<p>In Palestine, as in the rest of the Arab world, many are turning
to religion in response to the failure of the various liberation and
nationalist or socialist projects. Some practice a religious-inspired
political quietism or wait for an apocalyptic solution for the existing
impasse.</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/conference-political-palestine/">Boston-area conference aims to change the US political equation on Israel and Palestine</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/conference-political-palestine/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2015-10-26T12:08:21-04:00">October 26, 2015</time></a>
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<p>In mid-November, people will gather in Cambridge, Mass, to examine
the lessons of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa in an effort
to build more effective political campaign to influence Congress today.
A conference organized by Peace Action will examine the current state
of US politics and policy regarding Israel-Palestine, assess the growing
partisan divide on the issue and take concrete steps to organize
on-going efforts based in each Massachusetts Congressional district. </p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/progressive-accountability-positioning/">Senator Warren’s progressive supporters demand accountability for her rightwing pro-Israel positioning</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/progressive-accountability-positioning/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2014-09-18T09:50:01-04:00">September 18, 2014</time></a>
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<p>When Senator Elizabeth Warren began spouting Likud talking points–
that Hamas welcomed civilian deaths and the US should not sanction
Israeli settlement construction — her progressive base was shocked.
That’s why they confronted her at a talk at Tufts earlier this week. </p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/palestine-african-american/">Palestine is a topic too far for Boston African-American paper</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/palestine-african-american/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-12-31T11:19:06-05:00">December 31, 2013</time></a>
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<p>Over the years I have been an occasional op-ed contributor to a Boston African-American owned…</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/palestinian-activist-abandons/">‘We failed’ (In which a Palestinian activist abandons the peace process)</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/palestinian-activist-abandons/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-07-07T13:46:08-04:00">July 7, 2013</time></a>
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<p>One of the advantages of return visits to Palestine over a period of years is…</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/meet-mr-palestine/">Meet Mr. Palestine</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/meet-mr-palestine/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-06-30T10:16:53-04:00">June 30, 2013</time></a>
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<p>I met Mr. Palestine today in Nablus. Really. ‘Imad AbdulAziz won the title Mr. Palestine…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/murderer-baruch-goldstein/">A visit to the grave of mass-murderer Baruch Goldstein</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/murderer-baruch-goldstein/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-07-04T14:02:45-04:00">July 4, 2013</time></a>
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<p>Commenters on the conflict often speak of the grave of Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish extremist…</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/consider-senator-elizabeth/">Pavlov had nothing on the Israel lobby — consider Senator Elizabeth Warren</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/consider-senator-elizabeth/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-06-01T13:44:17-04:00">June 1, 2013</time></a>
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<p>Last week the Senate passed Resolution 65, mandating a new round of sanctions against Iran…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/invisible-man/">Invisible Man</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/invisible-man/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-06-24T10:13:34-04:00">June 24, 2013</time></a>
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<p>Hanna Swaid (right) with constituents I had a late dinner in Jerusalem last week with…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/faultlines-lebanon-palestine/">Syria’s faultlines extend into Lebanon and Palestine</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/faultlines-lebanon-palestine/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2013-06-25T12:13:59-04:00">June 25, 2013</time></a>
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<p>Hezbollah fighters celebrating their return from al-Qusayr (photo, Nehme Hamie) The civil war in Syria…</p><div class="content">
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/another-made-in-usa-less-lethal-weapon-kills-in-palestine/">Another Made in USA “less-lethal” weapon kills in Palestine</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/another-made-in-usa-less-lethal-weapon-kills-in-palestine/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2011-01-14T10:07:29-05:00">January 14, 2011</time></a>
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<p>Live fire “crowd control” rounds attributed to .22 caliber sniper
rifles, made by Sturm, Ruger Co. in Newport, NH, have been responsible
for at least six – and possibly more — deaths and scores of injuries
during the past couple of years.</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/death-in-a-palestinian-town/">Death in a Palestinian town</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/death-in-a-palestinian-town/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2011-04-17T10:46:34-04:00">April 17, 2011</time></a>
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<p>In Palestine, not all the killing takes place in the West Bank and Gaza –…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/remember-lebanon/">Remember Lebanon?</a>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/remember-lebanon/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2011-04-20T11:16:44-04:00">April 20, 2011</time></a>
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<p>You know, Lebanon – that small Middle East country wracked by a generation of bloody…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/bad-timing-for-wsj-author-who-says-arab-spring-wont-leap-the-sinai/">Bad timing for ‘WSJ’ author who says Arab spring won’t leap the Sinai</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/bad-timing-for-wsj-author-who-says-arab-spring-wont-leap-the-sinai/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2011-04-30T16:43:46-04:00">April 30, 2011</time></a>
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<p>The theme of posts here the other day was attitudes of “denial” regarding the Palestine…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/what-folks-are-saying-in-palestine/">What folks are saying in Palestine</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/what-folks-are-saying-in-palestine/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2011-05-05T17:38:14-04:00">May 5, 2011</time></a>
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<p>Last month, in the Old City Jerusalem, I visited a Palestinian friend who belonged to…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/as-long-as-the-zaatar-remains-3/">“As long as the Za’atar remains. . .”</a>
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<span class="post-author"><span class="by">By</span> <a class="author url fn" href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-klein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeff Klein">Jeff Klein</a></span>
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<a class="date-link" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/as-long-as-the-zaatar-remains-3/"><time class="post-date" datetime="2011-06-22T12:41:48-04:00">June 22, 2011</time></a>
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<p>Sometimes a food is more than just something you eat. The herbal condiment za’atar, a…</p>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/romney-netanyahu-and-that-other-campaign-for-war-with-iran/">Romney, Netanyahu and that other campaign — for war with Iran</a>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #002060; font-size: 12pt;">Many
thanks to all who have made donations for food relief in Syria. People
are grateful!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #002060; font-size: 12pt;">Here are
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #002060; font-size: 13pt;">I want to thank those who have responded to the appeal I sent out earlier to raise
funds for Syrian food relief. Responses are still coming in, but I would like
to share some information regarding this effort.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #002060; font-size: 13pt;">The fundraising in the US is organized
by local Syrians and Syrian-Americans and distributed through a volunteer
program in Syria called “Together Strong” of a group called The
Initiative for Good. They have a Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Alkhair.initiative.sy/">https://www.facebook.com/Alkhair.initiative.sy/</a>
(The “English” on the page is machine translated from Arabic, so a bit
awkward.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #002060; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5K4l9l5NjSlK_nV33mjXb-THUyyw93R4snM9Jo1dwWXXLhTUH3Zq-BpgYZad4akSauQsliWm1G_jjTd_mmBAC5dSn_qFnUgzZleMh8R0QsRniAQ_jCqqKkpl5OEA8c9CjOV-eXJ0I5Lc/s778/Food+Packages.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5K4l9l5NjSlK_nV33mjXb-THUyyw93R4snM9Jo1dwWXXLhTUH3Zq-BpgYZad4akSauQsliWm1G_jjTd_mmBAC5dSn_qFnUgzZleMh8R0QsRniAQ_jCqqKkpl5OEA8c9CjOV-eXJ0I5Lc/s320/Food+Packages.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #002060; font-size: 13pt;">The first food
baskets have already been distributed with our funds and more will be enabled
in coming weeks with the money we have raised. My Syrian friends assure
me that 100% of the donations go to feed the hungry.</span></p>
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first payment of 800,000 Syrian pounds that has already been sent. The amount
seems huge, but that is because the war has led to the drastic devaluation of
Syrian currency from 50 Syrian pounds to the dollar when I first visited the
country in 2009 to between 2000 and 3000 to the dollar today. A reminder that
$10 can feed a Syrian family with basic supplies for two weeks. Donations are
*not* “tax deductible” in the US!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #002060; font-size: 13pt;">Thanks to all
who have contributed. I will share updates and information as I receive
them. Anyone wishing to make a donation should send it to me and I will see
that the funds are transferred through the local Syrian community to this food program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">There are so many worthy
causes and charities rightly demanding our attention these days, so I will
understand if responding to this appeal is beyond your ability right now. But I
want to ask that you contribute whatever you can to relieve some of the
suffering in Syria caused by the policies of our own government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Millions of Syrians are
facing extreme privation in their war-torn country, exacerbated by brutal US
sanctions that claim to target the Syrian government but which have their most
devastating effect on ordinary people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">If you need any convincing,
please watch this 20-minute video (and have some kleenex handy):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywN_8IWat8g </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywN_8IWat8g&feature=emb_logo"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ywN_8IWat8g" width="320" youtube-src-id="ywN_8IWat8g"></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Shortages of food and fuel –
together with the collapsing Syrian pound – are the direct result of years of
war promoted and financed by the US and its allies. Today the US is
occupying the oil-producing lands in eastern Syria, while they are also
blocking wheat from this region – Syria’s breadbasket – to deny food to
millions of Syrians. Of course, as Americans, it is our duty to do whatever we
can to change the inhumane US policy of enforcing hunger in Syria (and
Venezuela, Iran, Yemen). <span style="color: #002060;"></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">But we can also help
directly.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> Many Syrians suffering as
refuge<span style="color: #002060;">e</span>s or in the remaining territory
controlled by “rebel” extremists, are able to receive some relief supplies from
international agencies<span style="color: #002060;">. </span> <span style="color: #002060;">But</span> the majority of Syrians, in government
controlled areas, are barred from receiving any significant support because of
US sanctions. Many of them are going hungry or dying from lack of
medicines.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Local Syrians and
Syrian-Americans are working to arrange for humanitarian food deliveries to
needy Syrian families. <u>These are people I trust absolutely to delivery
100% of funds raised <span style="color: #002060;">for</span> Syrian relief.</u>
This charitable activity is not forbidden by US sanctions. If you are
able to contribute anything, please contact me and I will deliver any donations
to those who can arrange to get food to hungry Syrian families. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">$10 will deliver a basket of
basic food supplies that can feed a Syrian family of four for 15 days:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1q9OAIWibQV6B1RmnT6dLdeeedgqMktpqb7J4K3mWAe1NQYz-V-Aj5VqGosAOaP_xDP_NYwpQ6NxBqeBp3wYcMfRdv5CJrBdoQAAYXz4AhUJcfCfftwrj2jVbbbYqL5Sc3CEoDS1uwnq/s1080/83309a88-7eba-42da-8aa8-9264fed89a0c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1q9OAIWibQV6B1RmnT6dLdeeedgqMktpqb7J4K3mWAe1NQYz-V-Aj5VqGosAOaP_xDP_NYwpQ6NxBqeBp3wYcMfRdv5CJrBdoQAAYXz4AhUJcfCfftwrj2jVbbbYqL5Sc3CEoDS1uwnq/s320/83309a88-7eba-42da-8aa8-9264fed89a0c.jpg" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">2 bottles of oil, 2 kilo
sugar,4 kilo bulgur, 2 kilo tomato paste, 1/2 kilo zaatar, 1/2 kilo tea, 1 bag
spaghetti, 1 box chicken stock cubes, 1 can of mortadella </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">PLEASE CONTACT ME TO
HELP IF YOU CAN! </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">And
please share this message with sympathetic contacts.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jeff</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p>
<p> </p>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-76940622439591707002014-09-20T07:52:00.000-07:002014-09-20T08:20:16.606-07:00SENATOR WARREN: "It's Not Progressive to Justify Israeli War Crimes!"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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progressive supporters demand accountability for her rightwing pro-Israel
positioning</span></b></div>
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Klein</a> on September 18, 2014<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/progressive-accountability-positioning#comments"></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When Elizabeth
Warren came to Tufts University in Medford on Monday she was met by anti-war
and Palestinian rights activists who asked why the popular senator and national
Democratic Party celebrity seemed to echo Israeli talking points about the recent
Israel attack on Gaza.</span></div>
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appeared as the keynote speaker at the Netroots Nation in July. She proudly
identified herself a progressive and stirred the crowd with these <a href="http://www.alternet.org/activism/progressive-values-are-americas-values-sen-elizabeth-warren-tells-netroots-nation-keynote" target="_blank">words</a>:</span></div>
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people succeed. We know that our lives improve when we care for our neighbors
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kids. That’s what we believe in. These are progressive ideas. These are
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The protest and the Gaza-related questions to Warren after her talk at
Tufts received some attention locally and nationally – but the media coverage
largely centered on the “<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/elizabeth-warren-holocaust-gaza" target="_blank">controversy</a>” after a <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/liz-warren-says-its-fair-compare-israel-s-actions-gaza-holocaust_804951.html" target="_blank">blogger</a> at the rightist Weekly Standard claimed that
Warren was “comparing Israel’s Actions in Gaza to the Holocaust.”
Some <a href="http://www.necn.com/video/#%21/on-air/as-seen-on/Warrens-Tufts-Lecture-Turns-to-Israel--Hamas/275197821" target="_blank">local media</a> was more serious, noting that the
activists had spotlighted the Israel-Palestine issue and compelled Warren to
respond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Warren has
focused her legislative work and public speaking almost exclusively on consumer
protection, finance and other economic issues that have struck a populist chord
with Democrats and independents, many of whom are enthusiastic fans of the
freshman senator from Massachusetts. By political calculation she has
been almost silent on international issues and has rarely spoken out on
questions of war and peace that are also important to her progressive base. As <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/elizabeth-question-israel">MW has reported</a>,
she literally ran away from commenting on the Israeli attack on Gaza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However, Senator
Warren was put on the spot with questions about Gaza when she appeared at a
constituent meeting last month on Cape Cod and her response was reported by the
local media and then spread widely on the Web. When questioned by a local
resident about her support for additional military aid to Israel in the middle
of the Gaza attack, Warren responded with these <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140821/NEWS/408210325/-1/news11" target="_blank">remarks</a>:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I think the
vote was right, and I’ll tell you why I think the vote was right,” she said.
“America has a very special relationship with Israel. Israel lives in a very
dangerous part of the world, and a part of the world where there aren’t many
liberal democracies and democracies that are controlled by the rule of law. And
we very much need an ally in that part of the world.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Warren said
Hamas has attacked Israel “indiscriminately,” but with the Iron Dome defense
system, the missiles have “not had the terrorist effect Hamas hoped for.” </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
pressed by another member of the crowd about civilian casualties from Israel’s
attacks, Warren said she believes those casualties are the “last thing Israel
wants.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“But when Hamas
puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they’re using
their civilian population to protect their military assets. And I believe
Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself,” Warren said, drawing
applause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Noreen Thompsen,
of Eastham, proposed that Israel should be prevented from building any more
settlements as a condition of future U.S. funding, but Warren said, “I think
there’s a question of whether we should go that far.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Many of Warren’s
progressive supporters, who had been urging the senator to speak out on war and
peace issues, were shocked. Remaining silent was one thing, but repeating
Likud talking points was worse. Many of us wrote to Warren or called her
office to express disagreement and ask for meetings to discuss her statements
and legislative record on Israel-Palestine issues. What they received in
return were boilerplate responses asserting her advocacy of a peaceful solution
and special support for Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aside from
concurring in Congressional cheerleading for the attack on Gaza and
appropriating more funds for Israel in the midst of the slaughter, Warren also
recently signed on (tardily, to be sure) as a co-sponsor of the <a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2673" target="_blank">US-ISRAEL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ACT</a> (S.2673) and
justified her stance in letters to constituents. Earlier, in June, she
joined 87 other Senators in signing on to an AIPAC-written <a href="http://www.cardin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/cardin-collins-lead-bipartisan-group-of-88-senators-with-concerns-about-palestinian-unity-government" target="_blank">letter</a> to President Obama expressing “concerns” over
the new Palestinian unity pact and threatening a possible cutoff of US funding
to the Palestine Authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The week before
Warren’s Tufts appearance, members of Massachusetts Peace Action <a href="http://masspeaceaction.org/5725" target="_blank">wrote</a> to
Warren, expressing frustration with her stance and requesting (for the
umpteenth time) a meeting with the Senator:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Senator
Warren,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is safe to
say that nearly all our members voted for you in the last election – and more
than a few worked actively on your campaign. We very much appreciate your
outspokenness as a progressive voice in the Senate on behalf of ordinary
citizens over banking interests and we welcomed your support for the Budget for
All campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However, we were
very disturbed to read about your recent statements regarding Israel and its
attack on Gaza. We strongly urge you to rethink the positions you
expressed, which are at variance with the facts and do not advance the goals of
a just peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To interpret
Israeli actions as merely “the right to defend itself” ignores the long history
of occupation and siege imposed on the people of Gaza. It belittles the
killing of more than 2100 Palestinians — the majority of them civilians,
as the UN and respected human rights organizations have documented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Moreover, a
careful review of the chronology of this latest conflict reveals that it was
instigated by Israeli actions, not “indiscriminate” attacks by Hamas. And
the charge that the Palestinians use “human shields” has been debunked by
serious investigators. In fact, the Israeli use of this practice has been amply
documented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In our view, it
is not “progressive” to justify the slaughter of civilians in Gaza. It is
not “progressive” to remain silent when Israel seizes more and more Palestinian
land for settlements that are universally regarded as illegal under
international law. It is not “progressive” to enable on-going human
rights violations and war crimes through the continued uncritical
appropriations of more military aid to Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The time is long
overdue to re-examine our policy of supplying billions of dollars of arms to
Israel every year. We believe that your co-sponsorship of the US-ISRAEL
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ACT (S.2673) sends exactly the wrong message to Israel in
the light of its recent attack on Gaza and the on-going siege it maintains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We ask that you
speak up for Israeli accountability, adherence to international law and
compliance with existing statutes regarding the permissible uses of exported US
weapons. We also ask that you vocally support Secretary of State Kerry’s
objections to the latest Israeli land grab in the West Bank.</span> </blockquote>
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request a meeting at the earliest possible date to elaborate on these concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At Tufts on
Monday, the standout was organized principally by Mass Peace Action, with
support from Boston Jewish Voice for Peace, along with some Tufts students and
faculty. Warren was appearing as part of a “Distinguished Speaker Series”
organized at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.
She was introduced by Tisch College Dean Alan Solomont, formerly a
Clinton-appointed ambassador and a serious Democratic Party rainmaker as
National Finance Chairman of the DNC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In response to
Solomont’s softball questions, Warren stuck to her folksy populist message: she
retold stories of her family struggles, stressed themes of opportunity, civic
engagement and reform of the student loan program. Those topics were
further elaborated in response to the first questions from the audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then three
questioners in a row asked about Gaza and Palestine. First was a
Palestinian-American whose family had been exiled from Haifa in 1948 asking why
Warren could not be more even-handed in advocating for Palestinians as well as
Israel. She was followed by Mass Peace Action board member <a href="http://masspeaceaction.org/mapaef-board">Eva S. Moseley, </a>who said she
was “concerned that Jews don’t do to another people what was done to them” and
asked whether Palestinians as well as Jews had “a right to self-defense?” (Eva
identified herself carefully as a Jewish Holocaust refugee, since her
family fled Vienna after the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1938, but this did
not hinder the vile <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/fake-holocaust-survivor-eva-steiner-moseley-gets-elizabeth-warren-to-endorse-hamas/" target="_blank">FrontPage Magazine</a> web site from a calling her a “Fake
Holocaust Survivor” who “support[s] terrorists.”) The third question was
from a Tufts student charging that Warren was an apologist “for Israeli attacks
on schools and hospitals” and had an “AIPAC alignment.” The questioners
mentioned that they had supported Warren’s bid for election to the Senate.</span></div>
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to each question almost identically: She was against violence; both the
Israeli and Palestinian families should be able to live free from fear and
secure in their own states. “I don’t want to see anyone kill more people.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After these
exchanges Dean Solomont said he wanted to “lower the temperature a bit” and
closed by asking Warren about her grandchildren, and “the big question of
the day”. . . Not the expected “Are you running for President” but What was her
favorite movie? (If you’re wondering: Casablanca)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outside, near
the back entrance to the auditorium, the protesters gathered to be visible to
Warren as she departed from the campus. One of her staffers was furious,
oddly chastising the activists for not telling the Warren staff ahead of time
what they were planning. We said we had been trying to see Warren for
years. The staffer claimed, rather implausibly, that Warren had never met with
AIPAC or any Israel lobby organization. He claimed that the senator was taken
by surprise at the Cape Cod meeting and that she spoke “off message” as a
result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Warren, who is a
possible presidential contender and the dream candidate for the progressive
blogosphere, was very much “on message” on Monday. She was carefully
even-handed, pro-peace and for two states in Israel-Palestine. In a brief
interview after talk (with Alan Solomont at her side) she repeated the mantra
that “the parties themselves are the ones who will have to negotiate” and “it
is not up to the United States to impose it.” And: “At the end of the day it’s
got to be what the Israelis and Palestinians negotiate, what they can live
with.” No mention of one-sided US military and diplomatic support for Israel,
or the asymmetrical power of the occupied and the occupier, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As she exited
the auditorium, Warren — an irrepressible campaigner — approached the
activists, shook their hands and warmly thanked each of them for being there.
We handed her a flyer as she entered her car to leave. The aide promised
a meeting soon. We’ll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Meanwhile,
speculations about a possible Warren presidential bid continue. Warren
has announced that after November she will make her first trip abroad since
entering the Senate – <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/08/13/elizabeth-warren-has-skimpy-resume-foreign-policy-but-plans-israel-trip-after-mid-terms/6gkD7HBwuQlHuUrgeMDB0I/story.html" target="_blank">to Israel</a>.</span></div>
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See more at: <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/progressive-accountability-positioning#sthash.lugDJWkg.dpuf">http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/progressive-accountability-positioning#sthash.lugDJWkg.dpuf</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Israel –
with US financing and US weapons -- has created a massive humanitarian disaster
in Gaza. More than 1100 Palestinians have been killed and thousands more
injured. According to the UN, three-quarters of the dead are civilians,
including hundreds of children and women. Tens of thousands have been
made homeless. The strip’s only power plant is now in flames from Israeli
bombardment.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Yet our
Congress has unanimously passed legislation blaming only the victims and is
considering further resolutions that aim to legitimize and prolong the
slaughter.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What is
needed are measures to end the bombing and offer the people of Gaza, as well as
Israel, freedom from violence and the possibility to live normal lives without
being under siege in their tiny patch of land. In the longer run, only a
just end to the blockade of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank can
offer the prospect of a lasting peace.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As I
understand it, Secretary of State John Kerry has been working to achieve a
cease-fire and negotiations to achieve those outcomes. For his efforts,
he has been openly vilified in the Israeli press. Kerry and his
diplomatic process deserve our support, instead of joining the campaign to
malign him as Israel and its US supporters are doing.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It is,
frankly, shameful that our Congress – especially its Democratic Party members
-- would even consider a resolution written by the agents of a foreign country,
whose spokespeople have insulted our secretary of state and whose chief of
state virtually endorsed the Republican candidate in the last US presidential
election.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Sincerely,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Jeff
Klein</span></b></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-40514073552721616392014-07-20T05:40:00.001-07:002014-07-20T05:40:48.564-07:00"Cutting the Grass" Again in Gaza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</xml><![endif]--><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 6.0pt;"></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSahE3Fo6gadt478KAP4RN2ulmgmRh0xBqe408xSzTJM9liHzCl7QW9tbnTBUWRz4aVOaa8e7-Cn-BVRfXTMdLwuPguKhuRYHPzLDwwMMJaiPCvFpl2C6vdY0kfgsYI9Qg90Sybnio3aO/s1600/07GAZA-1-master675-580x386.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSahE3Fo6gadt478KAP4RN2ulmgmRh0xBqe408xSzTJM9liHzCl7QW9tbnTBUWRz4aVOaa8e7-Cn-BVRfXTMdLwuPguKhuRYHPzLDwwMMJaiPCvFpl2C6vdY0kfgsYI9Qg90Sybnio3aO/s1600/07GAZA-1-master675-580x386.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Horror on Gaza Beach</span></b>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">DEMOCRACY NOW!</span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Had The Best Roundup <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/17/horror_on_gaza_beach_new_york">here</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Meanwhile, in the US, the Obama administration and the Congress
have piled on. . .in support of the slaughter and to back Israel’s aims in the
current hostilities.</span></div>
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Assault at White House “Iftar”</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At the annual White House
Iftar dinner commemorating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, President Barack
Obama endorsed Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip and defended
government spying on Muslim-Americans. Alongside dozens of Muslim-American
community activists and Muslim diplomats, the White House welcomed Israeli
Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, an outspoken advocate of Israel's settlement
enterprise who has claimed Muslim and Arab culture is endemically violent.
</span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/obama-humiliates-muslim-white-house-guests-endorsing-israels-gaza-assault-defending-nsa">More</a></span></b></div>
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support of Israel</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Senate passed a
resolution expressing support for Israel on the same night the country launched
a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)
and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) authored S.Res. 498, which reaffirms Senate support
for Israel, condemns unprovoked rocket fire and calls on Hamas to stop all rocket
attacks on Israel. “The United States Senate is in Israel’s camp,” Graham said
on the Senate floor Thursday. Passage of the resolution came moments after
Israel <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/international/212597-israel-begins-ground-invasion-into-gaza">announced</a>
that it launched a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip, following a week of
heavy rocket attacks from Hamas forces. </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/212617-senate-passes-resolution-in-support-of-israel">More</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Senator Elizabeth Warren was anxious to <a href="http://capitolcityproject.com/elizabeth-warren-runs-question-israeli-invasion-gaza/">avoid
responding</a> to a question about Gaza.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hres657">House</a>
and <a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-resolution/498/text">Senate</a>
resolutions, which were undoubtedly written by <a href="http://www.aipac.org/learn/legislative-agenda/agenda-display?agendaid=%7b570C7179-9618-4DAC-A0C6-E5E35E1FA5CB%7d">AIPAC</a>,
make no mention of casualties in Gaza, call the rockets “an unprovoked attack”
and also demand that the Palestinian Authority dissolve its unity
agreement with Hamas.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RM0wzNuRk38i7ZeagkveluhY3roAVk2__2DoCasp2AWmTgi68OV3ntUGms7pG1Fmxo3jGht3y8lxW5TiLY4uzcCCRQuSOqHGspQ4y3F_RibpD-8iVDAO9uyk6qsamvLQ_CxMQyBRH22_/s1600/Gaza.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RM0wzNuRk38i7ZeagkveluhY3roAVk2__2DoCasp2AWmTgi68OV3ntUGms7pG1Fmxo3jGht3y8lxW5TiLY4uzcCCRQuSOqHGspQ4y3F_RibpD-8iVDAO9uyk6qsamvLQ_CxMQyBRH22_/s1600/Gaza.png" height="200" width="168" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gaza: this shameful injustice will only end if the cost of it
rises</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For the third time in five years, the world’s fourth largest
military power has launched a full-scale armed onslaught on one of its most
deprived and overcrowded territories. Since Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza
Strip began, just over a week ago, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed.
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-80-per-cent-of-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-strikes-are-civilians-un-report-says-9606397.html">Nearly
80% of the dead are civilians</a>, over 20% of them children. Around 1,400 have
been wounded and 1,255 Palestinian homes destroyed. So far, Palestinian fire
has killed one Israeli on the other side of the barrier that makes blockaded
Gaza the world’s largest open-air prison. But instead of demanding a halt to
Israel’s campaign of collective punishment against what is still illegally
occupied territory, the western powers have blamed the victims for fighting
back. If it weren’t for Hamas’s rockets fired out of Gaza’s giant holding pen,
they insist, all of this bloodletting would end. </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/16/gaza-shameful-injustice-israel-attacks-occupied-people">More</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We single Israel out because we in the west are shamefully
complicit in its crimes</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For its many supporters in the west, Israel is being unfairly
singled out for criticism… Why pick on plucky Israel? What about the Chinas,
Russias, Syrias, Saudi Arabias, Irans, Sudans and Burmas? Where are the
protests against Isis, Boko Haram or the Pakistani Taliban? …</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Israel
is “singled out” today, but by its friends and not just by its enemies.
It has been singled out for unparalleled support – financial,
military, diplomatic – by the western powers. It is indeed, to quote Ben-Ami, a
“special case”. Which other country is in receipt of $3bn a year in US aid,
despite maintaining a 47-year military occupation in violation of international
law? Which other country has been allowed to develop and stockpile nuclear
weapons in secret? </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/07/we-single-israel-out-because-we-west-are-shamefully-complicit-its-crimes">More</a></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjy96KeNnq4xyfyQj9nm8VAONHwKlxy3MH6h9sGi95aIKyoeU3-qImvZjDnZF7mlfe80CiRceuYsR23Z7ZPYJf_nsPnMqXPJGGZ4FZC-pBSgL5mpq0bi8kfxWMYoNhr4k07xIOe0BJuUn/s1600/Gaza2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjy96KeNnq4xyfyQj9nm8VAONHwKlxy3MH6h9sGi95aIKyoeU3-qImvZjDnZF7mlfe80CiRceuYsR23Z7ZPYJf_nsPnMqXPJGGZ4FZC-pBSgL5mpq0bi8kfxWMYoNhr4k07xIOe0BJuUn/s1600/Gaza2.png" height="320" width="261" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">THE
CURRENT FIGHTING IN SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“CUTTING THE GRASS</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">is a racist term used
by the Israeli security establishment as a way to “manage” Palestinian
resistance by periodically launching limited attacks on Gaza to degrade to
ability of Hamas and other armed factions to confront the occupation of their
land. It is a strategy for limiting, rather than ending the conflict. <b>Short
VIDEO <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000002989054/cutting-the-grass-of-hamass-militancy.html">here</a></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">GAZA
is the size of heavily urban Suffolk County – but at 1.8 million inhabitants
almost three times as densely populated. With all its borders closed, there is
literally nowhere for people to escape or hide from the bombing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Compared to the intermittent firing of small-caliber mortars and
mostly home-made rockets from Gaza, since 2006 there have been almost
continuous Israeli attacks and assassinations against political and civilian
leaders in Gaza. There have been thousands killed in Gaza and tens of thousands
wounded or displaced from their homes. During the same period, the <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/rocket-deaths-israel.html">best estimate</a>
is that 27 Israelis have died since 2004 in rocket attacks launched from Gaza.
(In 2012 alone, 263 Israelis died in traffic accidents).</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">While Israel has argued that it ceased occupying Gaza in 2005 when
it unilaterally redeployed its troops outside of Gaza and withdrew its settlers
from Gaza, Gaza continues to be occupied in accordance with international law
and in the views of the international community, including the <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154463.htm">U.S</a>.<a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/besieged-blockaded-fighting.html#_edn1" title="">[i]</a>, the EU, and the <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/15session/A.HRC.15.21_en.pdf">U.N</a>.<a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/besieged-blockaded-fighting.html#_edn2" title="">[ii]</a>. Israel’s continued responsibility as the occupying power in
Gaza results from several factors. First, Israel continues to exert
effective control over Gaza including control of the borders, airspace,
waterways, population registry, currency, the movement of people, trade,
electrical supply, water supply, and more. Second, Israel maintains and exerts
a right to conduct regular military operations in Gaza, giving it effective
military control over the territory. <a href="http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/contemporary-challenges-for-ihl/occupation/index.jsp">Under
international law</a><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/besieged-blockaded-fighting.html#_edn3" title="">[iii]</a>, effective control is the key measures of occupation. </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/besieged-blockaded-fighting.html">More</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since 2005, when Israel decided to remove its settlers and troops
from inside Gaza, in order to maintain its siege from outside and strengthen
its colonization of the West Bank, there have been almost continuous <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-starvation-diet-gaza/11810">restrictions</a>
on the entry of food and other humanitarian necessities. Israeli
politicians <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/as-the-hamas-team-laughs-1.180500">joked</a>,
in the infamous words of Dov Weissglass, chief aide to former Israeli President
Ariel Sharon: <b><i>“the idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet but not to
make them die of hunger… It's like an appointment with a dietician. The
Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die…"</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel’s Incremental Genocide in
the Gaza Ghetto </span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The present genocidal wave
has, like all the previous ones, also a more immediate background. It has been
born out of an attempt to foil the Palestinian decision to form a <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/national-unity-government">unity
government</a> [4] that even the United States could not object to… Ever
since June 1967, Israel searched for a way to keep the territories it occupied
that year without incorporating their indigenous Palestinian population into
its rights-bearing citizenry. All the while it participated in a “peace
process” charade to cover up or buy time for its unilateral colonization
policies on the ground. With the decades, Israel differentiated between
areas it wished to control directly and those it would manage indirectly, with
the aim in the long run of downsizing the Palestinian population to a minimum
with, among other means, ethnic cleansing and economic and geographic
strangulation. </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/israel-committing-genocide-gaza-ghetto">More</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Israel controls two out of three sides of Gaza on the land and its
naval patrols maintain a sea blockade; Israel’s (and US) ally Egypt keeps the
third land side mostly closed and in any case honors the agreement with Israel
to limit Rafah access to foot traffic alone. So all goods coming in and
out of Gaza are controlled by Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Compared to the intermittent firing of small-caliber mortars and
mostly home-made rockets from Gaza, since 2006, there have been almost
continuous Israeli attacks and assassinations against political and civilian
leaders in Gaza, with concomitant “collateral damage” killing hundreds of
others. </span></div>
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Israel launched heavier attacks resulting in even higher casualties, the
majority civilian in all cases. Notice the consistent and obscene Israeli
terminology in naming its attacks:</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">June 2014 – Protective Edge: </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">265 killed and
counting</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">November 2012 – Pillar of Defense: </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">killing 168
Palestinians and destroying hundreds of homes</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">December 2008 – Cast Lead: </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">More than 1,400 Palestinians, the
majority of them civilians, were killed and over 16,000 Gazans were permanently
displaced from their homes which were destroyed during the attack. </span></div>
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children) and injured 269 (at least 63 children)</span></div>
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Palestinians dead and 848 injured</span></div>
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hundreds wounded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Whenever a temporary truce was negotiated (and scrupulously
maintained by Hamas), the pattern has been for Israel to renege on the terms
and break the ceasefire with fresh attacks when it deemed them useful.
And contrary to the Israeli claims that this was “to protect its citizens,” the
pattern reveals that the most dangerous time for Israeli civilians is when
Israel is launching an attack on Gaza.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reigniting Violence:
How Do Ceasefires End?</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">…we found that this pattern -- in which
Israel is more likely than Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause --
becomes more pronounced for longer conflict pauses. Indeed, of the 25 periods
of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24,
or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of nonviolence
lasting longer than 9 days…</span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thus, a
systematic pattern does exist: it is overwhelmingly Israel, not Palestine, that
kills first following a lull. Indeed, it is virtually always Israel that kills
first after a lull lasting more than a week. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-kanwisher/reigniting-violence-how-d_b_155611.html">More</a></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Egypt, acting as the United States normally does, worked out <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/14/331411652/reports-israel-may-accept-ceasefire-proposal-from-egypt">the
details</a> of its ceasefire idea primarily with Israel. The deal
reflects the Israeli and Egyptian agenda: it mostly follows the formula of
“quiet for quiet,” essentially bringing back the status quo ante of early June.
It offers Hamas a vague promise of future negotiations to address the siege of
the Gaza Strip. But this is hardly something Hamas will put stock in. The 2012
ceasefire agreement, which was negotiated by then-Egyptian President
Mohamed Morsi, a man much friendlier to Hamas than the current Egyptian
leadership, also made such a promise and it never came to anything. </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Finally,
Egypt says it is willing to open the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and
Egypt more widely but only if Hamas allows Palestinian Authority security
to police it instead of their own people. <i>It’s not hard to see why
Hamas viewed that offer, and its exclusion from the talks, more like a
call to surrender than a ceasefire… Hamas recently confirmed <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/10974072/Hamas-leader-Khaled-Meshaal-lays-out-terms-of-ceasefire.html">its
terms for a ceasefire</a>: Israel should lift the siege it
has imposed on the strip for the last seven years, and release all the
prisoners it arrested last month during its sweep of the West Bank
while the Netanyahu government was keeping the Israeli public and the
world from immediately finding out that the three youths who
were ostensibly being searching for <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/us-backing-israeli-war-of-choice-in-gaza/">were
already dead</a>. In exchange, Hamas would agree to a ceasefire. </i><b><a href="http://www.lobelog.com/a-tale-of-two-ceasefires/">More</a></b></span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-38026347151752719532014-07-05T13:24:00.001-07:002014-07-05T13:31:35.072-07:00"Riots in Arab-Israeli Towns"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Israeli press has reported -- and US media repeated without further confirmation -- that "Israeli-Arabs" (that is, Palestinian second-class citizens of Israel) in the segregated towns in the north-central part of the country are rioting violently in response to the gruesome murder of a Palestinian youth from Shuafat.<br />
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Here's a typical story, which was repeated almost word-for-word by the NPR correspondent in Tel Aviv:<br />
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attacked, car set on fire during riots in Arab Israeli towns</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-attacked-car-set-on-fire-during-riots-in-arab-israeli-towns/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-attacked-car-set-on-fire-during-riots-in-arab-israeli-towns/</a></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During riots
overnight Friday-Saturday in the central Arab-Israeli town of Kalanswa,
masked men attacked a number of cars belonging to Jewish Israelis, setting one
on fire. </span></i><i>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On Friday night
and into Saturday morning, Arab Israelis burned tires and clashed with
security forces in Kalanswa, and other central and northern towns including
Taibe, Tira and Baqa al-Gharbiya, in protest of the death of Palestinian
teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16. Police made 31 arrests and said more
were expected. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and so on (see the link for the rest).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I've been <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/death-in-a-palestinian-town.html" target="_blank">visiting</a> the town of <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2013/07/we-failed.html" target="_blank">Qalansuwe</a> ("Kalanswa") for many years and I have some long-time friends there, as well as in nearby Tira and Taibe. I phoned one of them who spoke -- ironically -- of the local "intifada." What the press did not report was that Qalansuwe and the other towns were invaded by right-wing Jewish-Israeli provocateurs before any of the "riots" began.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Jews drove into the towns yelling "Death to the Arabs" and other slurs, and were followed by Israeli police to "protect them" and arrest local youths. Then the protests -- that is "riots" -- began. My friend says that the roads into and out of Qalansuwe remained closed by the police as of this afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just a small example of how the news from Israel gets distorted. The Palestinian towns are a 30-40 minute drive from Tel Aviv and local testimony is just a phone call away. But that is apparently too much to ask from US </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so-called </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">news correspondents based in Israel. Much easier to repeat the press releases of the Israeli security forces or copy from the Jewish Israeli media.</span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-39314652255316636062014-06-29T12:44:00.001-07:002014-06-29T13:09:01.580-07:00The Colonial Roots of Middle East Conflict<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Iraq,
which was god-fathered by British colonial secretary Winston Churchill out of
three former Ottoman provinces, appears to be on the brink of reverting into its
constituent parts after less than a century. Why is this happening?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It
is commonly observed among nearly all the pundits of the mainstream media –
excepting the Bush/Neocon dead-enders – that the fuse leading to the present
catastrophe in Iraq was lit by the 2003 US invasion. True enough in the
short term.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A
longer historical perspective cites the post-World War I borders as the root of
the present crisis. But in the Middle East, it was not the <i>fact</i> of
these borders which led to internal conflict, but the <i>manner </i>of imperial
rule and the desire for colonial governance “on the cheap.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
1916 Sykes-Picot agreement awarded the British with direct control in lower
Mesopotamia, which they regarded as a defensive shield for the oil fields in
nearby Persia and their major refinery at Abadan. The British were also meant
to be “predominant” in the territory around Baghdad and the land extending west
toward the Mediterranean, along with the port of Haifa.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
French were to receive a strip of coastal Levant and a swath of central
Anatolia to rule directly, with inland Syria and northern Mesopotamia as an
area of exclusive influence, including the former Ottoman province of Mosul.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By
the end of the war, the British were anxious to revise the agreement, in order
to annex Mosul – where geological surveys suggested substantial petroleum
reserves -- to their other holdings in southern Mesopotamia. The French
assented in return for a share of the oil and a free hand in Syria.
Faisal, the son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who had been proclaimed king in
Damascus, thus found himself abandoned by his British allies and was promptly
expelled by the French, who divided Syria into the coastal protectorate of
Lebanon and the inland mandate of Syria.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thus
were delineated the modern national boundaries, each of which encompassed
states with a patchwork of ethnic and religious communities. But there is
little truth to the view that this led inexorably to inter-communal conflict,
or that Iraq and Syria were doomed by centuries-old religious hostility between
Sunni Muslims and Shia or other minority sects forced into the same state.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All
modern borders are more or less artificial creations, whether delineated by the
outcomes of war or by the pencils of colonial map makers. Rather, instability
was embedded in the political choices of the colonial powers.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
problem with empires, as their builders have come to recognize since ancient
times, is not so much the conquest but the difficulty and expense in holding on
to them over the long haul. From the time of the earliest known empires, rulers
have sought to govern distant lands through local clients when possible, or
through locally-recruited (and locally financed) troops when that was an
option. Roman Judea under the dynasty of King Herod was a famous example.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
lessons were not lost on modern empire-builders, of whom the British were by
far the most adept. This was how they ruled an immense Indian subcontinent,
first by the British East India Company and later directly by the Imperial Raj,
with a relative handful of European troops and administrators. Foreign control
was mediated though a network of subservient local principalities and
semi-autonomous regional client states<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Indian Army was also largely composed of “native” units staffed with
British officers. The colonial administrators recognized early on that
the most reliable troops were largely to be recruited from among ethnic or
religious minorities -- like the Indian Muslims, Sikhs and the famous Nepali
Gurkhas -- who would be more likely to view European power as a bulwark against
their more powerful neighbors</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
British thus elevated the Latin maxim of <b>Divide et Impera</b> (“Divide and
Rule”) to a modern colonial science. The same pattern was repeated, though not
as efficiently, in European colonies across the globe, where the
imperialists relied on Catholic loyalists in French Indo-China, Protestants in
Ireland, Tutsis in Central Africa – and “friendly” Indian tribes in North
America.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Native”
levees were employed to bolster colonial rule and even to serve usefully in
warfare outside of the possessions where they were recruited. There were
plenty of such units, mostly from French-ruled Africa, on the Western Front
during World War I. The “British” armies fighting the Ottomans in the
Middle East actually consisted largely of Indian troops, supported by local
transport auxiliaries.<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span>When the British
conquered the Ottoman provinces that became Iraq in 1918, their occupying army
of 73,000 included 61,000 Indian troops.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You
can observe the results at the many British war cemeteries scattered throughout
the region -- still meticulously maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission -- where the colonial dead were interred en masse, carefully
segregated from the individually-marked British burials.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhHnh7-fD5OHZSJWMG_8M2SjwHKTsTwyBj9M5OUNssn5NwcAWL8HOEEZVEJOUNjRZPIqj6EB0WULwvHsAbjfatJPWOeql126it3sBpDzdlMh7eGIHa0Wf8aTVthi-x0Y30HKBghP-8O24/s1600/130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhHnh7-fD5OHZSJWMG_8M2SjwHKTsTwyBj9M5OUNssn5NwcAWL8HOEEZVEJOUNjRZPIqj6EB0WULwvHsAbjfatJPWOeql126it3sBpDzdlMh7eGIHa0Wf8aTVthi-x0Y30HKBghP-8O24/s1600/130.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
</span><a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-ghosts-of-empire-in-beirut.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beirut</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, for example,
not far from the Shatila Camp, the meticulously landscaped grounds of the
British cemetery has an exclusively European WW I section, with touching
headstones, and a number of (separate and segregated) monuments across the
street announcing that “buried near this spot” were “Muslim Soldiers of the
Indian Army,” “the Hindu Soldiers of the Indian Army” and “Men of the
Egyptian Labor Corps.” The nearby French cemetery has grave markers for Vietnamese
and Senegalese combatants “Mort pour la France.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
Iraq. opposition to British rule and the demand for independence initially
united both Sunni and Shia, who cooperated in the political and military
spheres. However, the massive uprising of 1920-1, which the British
defeated with some difficulty, was centered in the largely Shia-population
Middle Euphrates and the holy Shia cities of Najaf and Kerbala</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Casting
about for local allies and proxy rulers, the British courted the influential
Christian and Jewish urban communities, but it was obvious that these
minorities could not rule an overwhelmingly Muslim territory. Instead, the
colonial officials in Baghdad and London decided to recruit the now unemployed
King Faisal to rule Iraq. Faisal, with his retinue of Sunni former
Ottoman military officers who had taken no part in the Iraqi resistance, was
imposed on the country as a suitably loyal facade for enduring colonial
rule.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
ploy enabled the British administrators to reduce the numbers – and cost – of
their occupation forces. But it also established a regime of Sunni
minority dominance over a mostly Shia (and Kurdish) population in Iraq that
would culminate, after independence, in the Saddam Hussein dictatorship.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While
the British were consolidating their control of Iraq, General Gouraud’s French
Army of the Levant advanced in 1920 from its base in occupied Beirut to conquer
Damascus.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzAS-7dolRrTg5qUcRyyL3J7jQCuPUbnvpHvap60Lw5JgkLKDVrmPkpaW679r5eeK0OxnVcprOqT3VWAzq0DZEJD_CFdjL3uXV7IyVVQd-uXBfenpO6ZemvkKJEzWsxY0l9P2bfgjW1q6/s1600/107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzAS-7dolRrTg5qUcRyyL3J7jQCuPUbnvpHvap60Lw5JgkLKDVrmPkpaW679r5eeK0OxnVcprOqT3VWAzq0DZEJD_CFdjL3uXV7IyVVQd-uXBfenpO6ZemvkKJEzWsxY0l9P2bfgjW1q6/s1600/107.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Following
their occupation of inland Syria, the French colonialists established a
Christian-dominated protectorate along the coast. The French had
maintained long-standing ties with the Maronite Catholic communities of Mt.
Lebanon. In 1860-61 the farcical Napoleon III sent an army to rescue
their clients from Druze attacks, a feat of arms which was celebrated with an
inscription among the monuments to Egyptian pharaohs and Babylonian kings at <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-ghosts-of-history-at-nahr-al-kalb.html">Nahr
al-Kalb</a>, north of Beirut.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But
instead of a compact enclave with a substantial Christian majority the French
incorporated within “Greater Lebanon” the cities of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli
along with the southern hill country and the rich agricultural lands of the
Beqaa Valley. These areas were populated by Sunni and Shia Muslims who
did not accept the division of Syria or rule by a French-imposed proxy
minority. This set the stage for generations of conflict, instability and
latent or overt civil war in Lebanon that persists to this day.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
Syria proper, the nationalist resistance to the French was centered among the
urban Sunni elites, who had been partisans of deposed King Faisal. The
colonial rulers experimented with various schemes to divide Syria into
ethnic-based governates, then managed a puppet colonial administration staffed
by loyal or bought officials under French supervision. They also
recruited a territorial military force from which the majority Sunni urban
population was largely excluded. The rural Alawites and other minorities
formed the core of the collaborationist army and police forces, with
predictable resentment on the part of many in the Sunni majority. This dynamic
continued after Syrian independence and is part of the background for the
current civil war.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR00ZnJxEam0WzzPP5xcGsrs5CuGv4BEoUeRkqLUu2ZP9OcbT9spuOCiR0tBFniQgyELL6uooLE5V2qn0Ayg7dDJ3Kg_vuVtLT0eBr3oT3jfqmD-ya3pPYiYLNzOI2pi3YC5dB4lq0MyWM/s1600/433px-Balfour_Declaration_in_the_Times_9_November_1917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR00ZnJxEam0WzzPP5xcGsrs5CuGv4BEoUeRkqLUu2ZP9OcbT9spuOCiR0tBFniQgyELL6uooLE5V2qn0Ayg7dDJ3Kg_vuVtLT0eBr3oT3jfqmD-ya3pPYiYLNzOI2pi3YC5dB4lq0MyWM/s1600/433px-Balfour_Declaration_in_the_Times_9_November_1917.jpg" height="320" width="230" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finally,
the British deployed their support for the Zionist project as a means to gain
the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Although there was genuine
sympathy for the Zionist cause among sections of the British ruling class --
either on Christian religious grounds or from the desire to have the Jews
settle “over there” rather than “over here” – other, more practical
imperial aims were discussed in private during the run-up to the Balfour
Declaration of November 1917.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strategically,
Palestine was viewed as an outer defense for British Egypt and the Suez Canal
-- as well as a Mediterranean terminus for a railway and an oil pipeline from
British Mesopotamia. Imperial ministers also argued (naively, as it turned out)
that a “Jewish Home” in Palestine would eventually become a European enclave in
the Levant, dependent upon and loyal to the British crown. Local Zionist
rule would be cost-efficient colonialism by proxy – a prediction which turned
out badly for the British and disastrously for the Palestinians. Eventually, it
was the US rather than the British Empire which gained this advantage, at least
during the Cold War.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
the light of this history, it is hard to argue that sectarian conflict in the
Middle East arises purely from local causes. Inter-communal violence was
not entirely absent from the region before the advent of European colonialism,
but sustained fighting among the varied mosaic of ethnic and religious
communities was unusual before the First World War. When sectarian conflict did
occur, it tended to be localized, spontaneous and of short duration.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
pattern of tolerance and local sectarian autonomy was upset by the colonial
project of building centralized bureaucratic administrations in which the
European powers manipulated and sometimes exacerbated ethnic differences in the
service of their imperial aims. The new state systems, continuing after
independence or imitated by other regional actors, also introduced the
potential for winner-take-all politics in which religious, ethnic or tribal
groups – or even individual families -- could contend for control of the state
apparatus, with the significant rewards of power and wealth deriving from that
control. In this way, the struggles we see playing out within the region
trace much of their origins to the colonial period.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Imperial
meddling continues to this day, with predictably catastrophic outcomes for the
people of the Middle East. But, ironically, the former colonial alignment of
local proxies has now been reversed. Where the British once promoted
Sunni predominance in Iraq, the US now backs Shia (and Kurdish) rule; where the
French employed ethnic/religious minorities to control Syria, the US and its
regional allies now promote Sunni revanchism. Only the continued reliance on
Zionist control of Palestine remains unchanged.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
result has been to prolong the regional devastation begun by war and
colonialism a hundred years ago. Today Syria lies shattered and wrecked as a
unified country; Iraq struggles to overcome decades of foreign invasion and
continuing internal conflict; Lebanon barely exists as an effective state; and
most Palestinians remain stateless under Zionist rule or in exile.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As
a Roman historian famously commented on the rapacious empire-builders of his
own day: </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“They
make a wasteland and they call it peace.”</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/war-iraq-cost-4-trillion-and-enormous-loss-life-here-are-8-warmongers-who-would-take-us-back"><span style="color: blue;">THEY'RE BACK</span></a> – and they’re everywhere in the
media! The architects and cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 –
you know who they are; <b>Bill Kristol</b>, <b>Robert Kagan</b>, <b>Paul
Wolfowitz</b>, <b>Douglas Feith</b>, <b>Max Boot</b>, <b>Paul Bremer</b> and
the ever hopeful war booster <b>John McCain</b> – they are all <a href="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/duplicity-ideologues"><span style="color: blue;">coming out of the woodwork</span></a>, screaming for another
chance to prove the value of US intervention in the Middle East. “<b><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/what-do-iraq_795057.html"><span style="color: blue;">Let’s not re-litigate the past</span></a></b>” they intone.
Let’s look forward to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/a-plan-to-save-iraq-from-isis-and-iran-1402960909"><span style="color: blue;">more wars</span></a> to re-arrange more hearts and minds in
the region. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/06/20/neocons_stunning_iraq_revisionism_why_theyre_still_divorced_from_reality_partner/?source=newsletter"><span style="color: blue;">The real disgrace</span></a> is that these Neocon keyboard
warriors are taken at all seriously and given respectable space in the media
with absolutely <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-where-is-the-accountability-on-iraq/2014/06/16/eba0ff24-f597-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html"><span style="color: blue;">no accountability</span></a> for the rivers of blood
on their hands. They belong in the dock, not on the editorial pages. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And now, of all people, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his
daughter, Liz, took to the pages of the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> to laughably,
shamelessly, claim credit for the Bush administration’s “victory” in Iraq and
to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/18/1307814/-It-was-only-a-matter-of-time-Dick-Cheney-criticizes-Obama-on-Iraq?detail=hide"><span style="color: blue;">criticize</span></a> President Obama for the current
situation. Like some shambling undead zombie, Cheney is back to blame Obama for
frittering it all away through reluctance to commit more troops and more
treasure to a failed Neocon project in the Middle East. On Wednesday, said the
devil and his spawn: “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much
at the expense of so many.” No, not Bush, Obama!The rest of establishment
opinion on Iraq ranges from oil industry mouthpieces such as Bush family
consigliere <b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/james-baker-a-roadmap-for-restoring-american-leadership-1403136719"><span style="color: blue;">James Baker</span></a></b> -- who argues for restraint in
Iraq but takes the opportunity to promote energy development, more pipelines
and fewer environmental restrictions (along with a nod to the supposed US “debt
crisis) – to <b><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/dems-starting-to-unite-around-president-obama-on-iraq-108095.html#ixzz3598RjEda"><span style="color: blue;">Congressional Democrats</span></a></b> who are mostly lining
up with the President. Only Libertarian Republicans like <b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/sen-rand-paul-america-shouldnt-choose-sides-in-iraqs-civil-war-1403219558"><span style="color: blue;">Rand Paul</span></a></b> are, like <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/five-reasons-to-stay-out-_b_5507655.html"><span style="color: blue;">the anti-war movement</span></a>, speaking out against Iraq
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJFQB21rNbVTs-fDuxEIGyXH_nc1T02d5ESbZVMsxD81sNjGpgpfBrrsEgn2wekMQrUZX1LGYvosYfh4fp3zMiJ_BxDJM1rPfS_HF5IsVzdXA7gc1KGjkKekZtqAbJx9LYcS_SDosunj1/s1600/FITNA.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJFQB21rNbVTs-fDuxEIGyXH_nc1T02d5ESbZVMsxD81sNjGpgpfBrrsEgn2wekMQrUZX1LGYvosYfh4fp3zMiJ_BxDJM1rPfS_HF5IsVzdXA7gc1KGjkKekZtqAbJx9LYcS_SDosunj1/s1600/FITNA.png" height="211" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Meanwhile, the latest
consensus among the “serious people” people in Washington is that “we” somehow
have to get rid of the government of Iraq, whose election our occupying troops
first oversaw -- and which then was chosen twice more by a majority of Iraqis,
most recently just a couple of months ago. Allegedly, the current Iraqi
prime minister – chosen by a majority of the elected parliament --is “too
sectarian” (unlike our monarchical allies in the Arab Gulf states?) The
only remaining unabashedly secular government in the region is the Assad regime
in Syria, which our “friends” are doing everything in their power to replace by
more of the same Sunni fundamentalists we are getting ready to battle in Iraq.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Repeat again: <b>There was no “Al-Qaeda in Iraq”</b> (or Syria)
before our 2003 invasion, and the funding for the religious fanatics there
comes from “our” allies Turkey and the Gulf petro-monarchies – Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Kuwait, and others. Just like the “Freedom Fighters” in
Afghanistan during the 1980’s, where Osama bin-Laden came to prominence with
the backing of the CIA, the Saudis and Pakistan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Maybe the real “Mission Accomplished” is the complete
disintegration of the Arab and Muslim Middle East into warring factions that
are too busy killing each other to pose a threat to our allies in Saudi Arabia
and Israel. There’s a word for it in Arabic: “</span><b><span style="color: black;">Fitna</span></b><span style="color: black;">” (as in the cartoon above), meaning
“the burning fire of civil strife.” Unfortunately, once lit, there is no
telling – as 9/11 illustrated --where such fires will spread and how much
damage they will do. And instead of working with Iraq’s neighbor Iran to
stabilize the situation, the Gulf monarchies, the Israelis and their amen
corner in the US are urging that we bomb them too. “Real men” still want
to go to Tehran, not just stop at Baghdad. <b>Characteristically,
President Obama moved to <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/obama-prepares-drone.html">placate the
Republican demands</a> for “action” in Iraq.</b></span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-80014962001690570982014-06-16T11:28:00.000-07:002014-06-16T11:33:13.699-07:00THE UNITED STATES (and the European Union) OF PLUTOCRACY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There is a lot of hand-wringing among establishment Republicans –
and a fair amount of <i>Schadenfreude</i> among Democrats – in response to the
defeat of House Majority Leader <b>Eric Cantor</b> by an Ayn Rand-quoting,
Bible-thumping Libertarian economics professor in the Virginia primary.
Likewise, there is much nervous chin-stroking among establishment pundits over
the surprisingly strong showing by rightist and xenophobic parties in the
elections for the European parliament. </span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That the Virginia Senate candidate and many of the European
parties attracted voters with an appeal against the ruling elites, the banks
and Big Finance is also a failure of Progressives to provide convincing
programs to attract those segments of the population facing economic hardship
imposed by the various ruling “1 per cents.” That is why the movement to
raise the minimum wage is so important – and why it is so damaging when
Democrats show a willingness to cut Social Security benefits, a measure <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/12/1306488/-Pew-Everbody-loves-Social-Security">opposed
by big majorities across the political spectrum</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cantor, a hard-core
reactionary, very cozy with Wall Street and big Republican donors – as well as
a very reliable spokesperson for Israel’s Likud government in the US House –
will not be missed by any of us. But we also know from history
that when “popular” parties do not offer meaningful alternatives to a failed
status quo, then “Rightwing Populists” will move in to fill the vacuum -- with
the backing of the very corporate interests that were supposedly the targets of
resentment. Koch brothers, anyone? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This kind of movement used to be called by its proper term –
Fascism. Recall that the middle names of the original German Nazi Party
were “Socialist” and “Workers” and that Hitler was able to secure the
backing of the powerful Krupp armaments family. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And the stoking of racial/anti-immigrant/religious bigotry is
always part of the Rightwing Populist formula. To imagine that Progressives can
somehow unite with the new Rightwing Populists is a very dangerous game, even
though there may be some tactical agreement on certain issues. <b>Eventually, the
populist mask always comes off to reveal a burning cross – or a Swastika.</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dave Brat’s victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has
been widely attributed to Brat’s opposition to immigration reform. But in his
campaign, Brat and his Tea Party backers gave equal weight to denouncing Cantor
as a tool of Wall Street, the big banks, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the
Business Roundtable. Brat’s campaign reflected an old strain of <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115332/tea-party-going-down-dysfunction-not">rightwing
populism</a> that continues to be an important part of our politics… Brat’s
case against immigration reform was directed at big business as much as it was
directed at the immigrants themselves. “They get cheap labor,” he said of big
business, “but everyone in the 7th district gets cheap wages.”…</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If
he is elected in November, Brat may, of course, jettison the anti–Wall Street
and anti-big business side of his politics.</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">His actual economic views appear to be close to those of the Cato
Institute and Ayn Rand. </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118097/dave-brat-and-triumph-rightwing-populism">More</a></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvI_6hR7gMIVqYt6j9eeaF3p-6BkkVsh2SSQfruJKKPj1Kr3eW3fLLfrV3Yf08x_xvrTVyjErBy9EFGqLLqSSMCeeSWjg5LqGfN3oR1LlEqXDYE4XUxZWW800cWaGUXIVNdROg8mWop0TS/s1600/minimum+wage+cartoon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvI_6hR7gMIVqYt6j9eeaF3p-6BkkVsh2SSQfruJKKPj1Kr3eW3fLLfrV3Yf08x_xvrTVyjErBy9EFGqLLqSSMCeeSWjg5LqGfN3oR1LlEqXDYE4XUxZWW800cWaGUXIVNdROg8mWop0TS/s1600/minimum+wage+cartoon.png" height="278" width="320" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The So-Called European Earthquake</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Parties that targeted unemployment, austerity and the growing
wealth gap in Europe did well, and the dramatic breakthrough of right wing
racist and xenophobic parties in France, Britain, and Denmark had less to do
with a neo-Nazi surge than with the inability or unwillingness of the
opposition in those countries to offer a viable alternative to a half decade of
economic misery.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <i>Indeed, if there was a message in the May 25 EU elections, it
was that those who trumpeted austerity as the panacea for economic crisis were
punished… In contrast, where there was a clear choice between economic
democracy, on one hand, and “let’s blame it on the immigrants and Roma,” on the
other—as in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and most of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/28/hey-media-central-and-east-european-countries-voted-in-the-european-parliamentary-elections-too/">Central
and Eastern Europe</a>—voters went left. </i><b><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/09/the-so-called-european-earthquake/">More</a></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The signs of disaffection are not hard to detect: across the
world, ordinary citizens are coming to realize that the confident assumption
that liberal democracy would deliver prosperity, security, and some kind of
existential reassurance may be a mirage… If the heartland of capitalist liberal
democracy can be riven by an expectations gap, there is reason to wonder
whether what we call “democracy” may not be so different from other political
systems after all: perhaps only our arrogance has kept us from seeing it as one
type of rule among many, struggling to satisfy the high expectations of its
people in a time of economic stultification and stratification.</span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/179851/what-was-democracy?page=full">More</a></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1fL7aMgCeUfZgD9mY198DkJnodGXmLkiKotg2PEZje0ncXZE4YL3ENH5SLURPY3JUYnyFZhtwOeF7tpdM8wXL3h9m5EeID8DjqngKctpJPdeYaoirJluA7tJLKXxtT1fgIBfcZl689rYK/s1600/Koch+Congress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1fL7aMgCeUfZgD9mY198DkJnodGXmLkiKotg2PEZje0ncXZE4YL3ENH5SLURPY3JUYnyFZhtwOeF7tpdM8wXL3h9m5EeID8DjqngKctpJPdeYaoirJluA7tJLKXxtT1fgIBfcZl689rYK/s1600/Koch+Congress.jpg" height="232" width="320" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The Plutocrats Still Lead With Control</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Not only do the rich have a system built for them, but they have
their own market geared just for them. The rest of the population, on the other
hand, must contend with the growing income inequality and hope our interests
correlate with the interest of the rich. This uncovers a system built on the
premise of inequality not only in the economic sense, but also in the political
sense. It has been raised incessantly how there are issues that require
attention, but it is a legitimate point. What is the point of a country that
states it is for democracy when it the market and governmental elites focus on
an exclusive group of people? The corporate media structure may be focusing on
the upcoming elections as an indicator of where the country is heading, but <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bofa-merrill-lynch-backs-piketty-2014-5">a
report</a> by Bank of American Merrill Lynch on Thomas Piketty’s new book and
central theme may already show what direction the country will be heading.
</span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://my.firedoglake.com/brandonj/2014/06/11/the-plutocrats-are-still-leading-with-control/">More</a></span></b></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This letter of mine was in the Sunday Globe, June 15, 2014</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Syria’s recent
balloting may have been a “sham,” as the Globe writes (<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/06/07/assad-new-swagger-requires-stepped-response/9GoNvU7rvISDpilnu0qLyO/story.html" target="_blank">“Assad’s new swagger requires a stepped-up response by US,”</a>
Editorial, June 8), but so was the electoral anointing of Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi
in Egypt. The difference is that our government has supplied and continues to
send billions of dollars in US taxpayer funds to an Egyptian military that
oppresses its own people, while it cynically arms anti-Assad rebels in Syria in
the name of so-called democracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the latter
case, we do so in alliance with dictatorial clerical regimes in the Arabian
Peninsula — Saudi Arabia and Qatar — that are funding Islamist militias and Al
Qaeda fanatics with the goal of imposing fundamentalist religious rule on
Syria’s multicultural society. Is it any wonder that millions of Syrians have
voted to support the authoritarian regime of Bashar Assad when the alternative
appears to be a victory for those who threaten to behead “apostates” and
secularists? The “moderate” military opposition that you cite never had the
possibility to overthrow Assad, and now it barely exists on the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isn’t it time to
reevaluate our alliances in the Middle East rather than rush headlong into
doubling down on a policy that has already led to 9/11 and might produce more
unanticipated disasters?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeff Klein </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dorchester </span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-88394906274222824282014-06-15T06:38:00.000-07:002014-06-15T07:36:49.937-07:00CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST IN IRAQ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">In the 1980’s the US <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/klein04222006.html">supported Saddam Hussein</a>
when he was using poison gas against Iran and his own Kurdish population; in
the 1990’s we starved Iraq with a punishing embargo, while at the same time
looking the other way when the regime repressed uprisings by Kurds in the north
and the mostly poor Shi’a majority in the south; after the 2003 invasion US
troops stood by while Iraq’s cultural patrimony was looted and destroyed; we
first installed a subservient regime under a US pro-consul, then cultivated a
Shi’a-dominated government after elections boycotted by much of the Iraqi
population; we looked the other way when “our” Iraqi government and its
supporters emptied Baghdad’s Sunni neighborhoods under the noses of US
occupying troops; then we allied with Sunni tribal leaders to fight “al-Qaeda”
but continued to look the other way when the new Iraqi government oppressed and
disenfranchised non-Shi’a </span><span style="color: black;">Arabs; now we seem to be trying to maneuver <a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/12/how-to-respond-to-the-isis-threat/">regime
change</a> in Baghdad to remove the same government we once empowered.. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black;">There was no “Al-Qaeda in Iraq”</span></b><span style="color: black;"> (or Syria) before our invasion. And, it
must be noted, funding for the religious fanatics comes from “our” allies
Turkey and the Gulf petro-monarchies – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and others
-- along with US-allied Pakistan in the background. Just like the
“Freedom Fighters” in Afghanistan during the 1980’s, where Osama bin-Laden came
to prominence.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5A026GMg2agUjOQiftEzGvfxnAfcbFsNCcZU-9Qz8r7j0YDu0o_YJLrsSucvoM1nzsQiba-MB4jxd9d1Q0SWCb0vmaUVCp7Bc9KV7nRFKyoDK_7gWVf23J1VsX1fd77ocZUz5EkuZnOA/s1600/Sykes-Picot.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5A026GMg2agUjOQiftEzGvfxnAfcbFsNCcZU-9Qz8r7j0YDu0o_YJLrsSucvoM1nzsQiba-MB4jxd9d1Q0SWCb0vmaUVCp7Bc9KV7nRFKyoDK_7gWVf23J1VsX1fd77ocZUz5EkuZnOA/s1600/Sykes-Picot.png" class="decoded" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5A026GMg2agUjOQiftEzGvfxnAfcbFsNCcZU-9Qz8r7j0YDu0o_YJLrsSucvoM1nzsQiba-MB4jxd9d1Q0SWCb0vmaUVCp7Bc9KV7nRFKyoDK_7gWVf23J1VsX1fd77ocZUz5EkuZnOA/s400/Sykes-Picot.png" height="340" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Amazingly, there are now rising voices from our <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/jessica-lewis-the-terrorist-army-marching-on-baghdad-1402614950">DC
elites</a> for US airstrikes against the Iraqi insurgents, to send US military
trainers for the Iraqi army or even to deploy US troops on the ground. <b>Very
few seem to have learned the lesson that US intervention is the <i>cause</i> of
the present nightmare in Iraq, not the solution.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The catastrophic outcomes of neo-colonial “divide and rule” have a
lineage extending back throughout the 20<sup>th</sup> century in the Middle
East and beyond. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Once it was the British and French empire builders
sowing chaos; now it is US neo-conservative and neo-liberal “democracy promoters.”
<b>Same chickens, different roost.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">In the light of recent events, the Middle East under the Ottoman Empire is looking better in retrospect. Or at least the possibly alternative history the region might have had without colonial intervention <span style="font-family: inherit;">by</span> European powers.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">I wrote about that a few years back:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The railroad not
taken, in the Middle East</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/the-railroad-not-taken-in-the-middle-east.html">http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/the-railroad-not-taken-in-the-middle-east.html</a></span><br />
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In 1914, a traveler could board a train in Istanbul and – with a few detours
around some unfinished tunnels – cross the Anatolian plateau past the Taurus
Mountains into Syria. From Damascus, the new Hejaz Railway continued on through
modern-day Jordan to Medina in Arabia, with branch railways connecting to
Beirut and Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. Another line ran between the main
Palestinian port of Jaffa and Jerusalem. A major rail project to link Damascus
and Baghdad -- and eventually Basra on the Persian Gulf -- was under
construction, with long segments already completed.<br />
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This was possible because most of what we call The Middle East was then part
of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman rule was no paradise, but within its larger
regional structure a relatively lax central administration left room for
considerable local autonomy. The Ottoman system also allowed a measure of
cultural pluralism, with self-management and protection for different
ethnic/religious communities. Muslims, Christians and Jews lived side-by-side
and ran their own communal affairs, generally with little friction and minimal
intervention by the central authorities.<br />
<br />
This arrangement was already being eroded by rising nationalisms – not least
among the Turks themselves -- in the years before the First World War, but it
was destroyed utterly by military defeat and the intervention of the Great
Powers. In the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement Britain and France divided the
Ottoman territories into colonial spheres of influence. Then they carved out a
patchwork of weak protectorates, delineating the borders that would eventually
become Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Palestine – all without the consent of
the indigenous peoples of the region. In the process, they helped to inflame
and exacerbate ethnic rivalries in the classic colonial pattern of “divide and
rule.”<br />
Recognizing the strategic importance of the railroads, the occupying powers
also specified in great detail how the lines would be parceled out between
them. The British were especially keen to develop rail transport within its
sphere. By the 1940’s, they had established regular train service from Cairo up
the coast of Palestine through Gaza and eventually extending on to Beirut.<br />
<br />
Haifa, with its new deepwater port, soon became the main transportation hub
in Mandate Palestine. Its rail maintenance yards were also the largest
industrial enterprise in Palestine, with a workforce of more than 1200.
However, when Arab and immigrant Jewish workers agitated for labor unity in
Haifa, their efforts were frustrated by the Zionist union Histadrut, which was
promoting a policy of exclusively “Hebrew Labor” in preparation for the
founding of a Jewish State.<br />
<br />
The railroads would mostly not survive the wars that followed the 1947 UN
vote to partition Palestine. In the ensuing fighting, key sections of the
Haifa-Jordan railway were sabotaged by the Jewish Hagana and never rebuilt.
Most of the Palestinian workers at the Haifa rail yards were terrorized by
Zionist attacks and soon found themselves refugees in neighboring countries. In
Lebanon, the rail system was shattered by inter-communal civil war and Israeli
bombing during the 1970’s and 80’s. The Hejaz railway was mostly abandoned, its
grand terminal in Damascus lying empty today. In Egypt there is no longer rail
service east of the Suez Canal.<br />
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Ironically, Israel is the only state in the region which has put significant
resources into developing its internal rail network. But employment on the
railway – like most of Israel’s public sector and utilities -- is more or less
reserved for Jews only. The few Palestinian employees have been struggling in
court to retain their jobs in the face of a new regulation that railroad
workers must have served in the Israeli army – thus excluding Arab
citizens.<br />
<br />
Given the decades of bloody conflicts that followed intervention of the
European powers, it is not surprising that many in the Middle East now look
with a certain nostalgia on the period of Ottoman rule. Of course, no one
actually imagines a return to the vanished empire, but it is becoming equally
clear that long-term prospects for sustained development will require a renewed
regional integration. Ironically, it is modern Turkey, seemingly rejected by
Europe, which has lately become the key promoter of political and economic
cooperation among its Middle East neighbors.<br />
<br />
These days, it may be hard to be optimistic for Middle East peace in the
face of a seemingly intractable Israel-Palestine conflict. But the current
status quo of occupation and violence is not sustainable. Sooner or later,
there will be a resolution – either through two states in an economic
association (whose possibility seems to be receding), or in a single
bi-national country with equal rights for all its citizens. Either outcome
could be a powerful stimulus for regional development.<br />
<br />
Taking the long view, it is worth remembering that for generations France
and Germany fought wars vastly more destructive than anything experienced in
the Middle East. But today, in the European Union, you can get on a train in
Berlin and travel to Paris without ever having to show a passport.<br />
<br />
<i>Earlier this fall a group of Palestine Justice activists
from Cape Cod organized a “Rails for Reconciliation” event, which involved
taking Amtrak’s “Downeaster” from Boston to meet a group of like-minded folks
for a rally in Sacco, Maine. Participating along with WLPF members from the
Cape were Holocaust survivor and Gaza Freedom Marcher Hedy Epstein, young
Irishman Fiachra O’Louain, who was one of the people roughed up by Israeli
commandos in the last Free Gaza Flotilla, and myself. This was adapted from
remarks I was asked to make at Boston’s North Station. </i><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Black Flags Over Mosul</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">An army of Sunni fighters
affiliated to al Qaida crossed the Syrian border into Iraq on Tuesday,
scattering defensive units from the Iraqi security forces, capturing Iraq’s
second biggest city of Mosul, and sending 500,000 civilians fleeing for safety.
The unexpected jihadi blitz has left President Barack Obama’s Middle East
policy in tatters and created a crisis of incalculable magnitude. The
administration will now be forced to focus its attention and resources on this
new flashpoint hoping that it can prevent the makeshift militia from marching
on Baghdad and toppling the regime of Nouri al Maliki. Events on the
ground are moving at breakneck speed as the extremists have expanded their grip
to Saddam’s birthplace in Tikrit and north to Baiji, home to Iraq’s biggest
refinery. The political thread that held Iraq together has
snapped pushing Iraq closer to a full-blown civil war.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <b>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/12/black-flags-over-mosul/">More</a></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Some analysts said during
the Second Gulf War that al Qaeda would be <a href="https://twitter.com/billmon1/status/476243803141976064">trading up</a>
from Afghanistan if it secured a base in Iraq. It was a prescient thought, but
perhaps premature: between 2007 and 2010, Iraqis by and large rejected that
fate for their country and dealt a body blow to the foreign Sunni jihadists who
entered the country. But then the Syrian Civil War began... The most
significant of these "new" groups has been the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant (ISIS), which over the past year has spent as much time fighting
other Syrian rebels groups as the Syrian Arab Republic's forces. ISIS was once
aligned with al Qaeda's central command, but has since gone its own way… Sunni
grievances against the government <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/15246-malikis-iraq-rape-executions-and-torture">are
real and legion</a>: job discrimination, undue prosecution of activists, human
rights violations by the police, welfare cuts that "punish" the
Sunnis for their collaborationist role in past dictatorships. Well before this
uprising, "the Sunnis [had] <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/12/inside-surge-interview-with-prof-peter.html">lost
faith</a> in the political process and the jihadists were once again able to
make inroads among them." </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://arabist.net/blog/2014/6/11/malikis-most-solemn-hour">More</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Fall of Mosul and the False
Promises of Modern History</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The fall of Mosul to the
radical, extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a set of
historical indictments… Integrating Mosul into British Iraq, over which
London placed Faisal bin Hussein as imported king after the French
unceremoniously ushered him from Damascus, allowed the British to depend on the
old Ottoman Sunni elite, including former Ottoman officers trained in what is
now Turkey. This strategy marginalized the Shiite south, full of poor peasants
and small towns, which, if they gave the British trouble, were simply bombed by
the RAF. (Iraq under British rule was intensively aerially bombed for a decade
and RAF officers were so embarrassed by these proceedings that they worried about
the British public finding out.) To rule fractious Syria, the French
(1920-1943) appealed to religious minorities such as the Alawites and
Christians. </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/promises-modern-history.html">More</a></span></b></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-90846468667408649222014-06-06T14:55:00.002-07:002014-06-06T14:57:38.179-07:00PHONY ELECTIONS, there and here<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWtj2pEPyazTDXnh2nZc-364NewlaNgaBwVgKmUtJYkmN4g561PA2epAOTkTgB_nuRNunCA4NuwFyVUHEwR6BRpQgBJ8B3qm7i71wHTf4vesQzyraYBz35w3OFr8v_NVcMAtQqJO8n9DDY/s1600/voting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWtj2pEPyazTDXnh2nZc-364NewlaNgaBwVgKmUtJYkmN4g561PA2epAOTkTgB_nuRNunCA4NuwFyVUHEwR6BRpQgBJ8B3qm7i71wHTf4vesQzyraYBz35w3OFr8v_NVcMAtQqJO8n9DDY/s1600/voting.jpg" height="226" width="320" /></a><b><span style="color: black;">Egypt</span></b><span style="color: black;"> first: After years of revolution and repression, the violent
overthrow of an elected government and the slaughter of its supporters, along
with a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign by the still-dominant “Deep
State” of generals and kleptocrats, the return – or rather continuance – of
military rule was a foregone conclusion. Backing General el-Sisi was an
odd couple of Saudi Arabia and Israel, with the US standing meekly aside and
continuing to underwrite the hardware used by the military to repress its own
people. Most Egyptians didn’t even bother to vote. El-Sisi claimed a 96.91%
victory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">In <b>Syria</b>: Despite the horrifically brutal civil war
millions of Syrians went to the polls to ratify President Hafiz al-Assad for
another seven years. The motives for voting varied from fear to
enthusiasm, nationalism and opposition to foreign interference to sheer
exhaustion with the war. However, it was impossible to ignore that many
Syrians – how many, we have no way of knowing – demonstrated their heartfelt
support for the regime (a fact which <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/syrian-election-sends-powerful-signal-of-assads-control/2014/06/03/16876fca-eb2a-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html">“Western”
journalists</a> were at pains to belittle). Many others preferred the
al-Assad police state to the prospect of rule by religious fanatics who
considered their opponents “infidels” eligible to be murdered at will.
Hafiz al-Assad claimed that almost 16 million people voted and gave him an
88.7% victory – <a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2014/06/syrian-elections-then-and-now.html">“down”
from 97.62 in 2007</a>, but who’s counting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">In <b>Ukraine</b>, it was a contest between rival oligarchs, with
a majority of those voting preferring the “<b><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26822741">Chocolate King</a></b>”
over the “<b><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15249184">Gas
Princess</a></b>.” For supporters of the violently ousted former
president and advocates of autonomy or independence in the eastern regions of
the country, Kiev delivered bombs rather than ballots, with a rising toll of
dead and wounded. No doubt the rest of Ukraine will soon experience
buyer’s remorse when they face savage austerity and economic catastrophe
imposed by the IMF as the price of the ticket to join “Europe.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">If you notice something similar in the Syrian and Egyptian
elections, then you just don’t have a correct understanding of American
“democracy promotion.” In Egypt, the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are
supporting and arming the el-Sisi regime so it can repress “Islamist
terrorism”; in Syria we and our allies are backing “moderate” Islamists and
al-Qaeda allied groups to oppose “dictatorship.” Get it? Meanwhile,
in Ukraine, we are cheering on the Kiev government – including some openly
neo-Nazi thugs – to repress “terrorist” fellow citizens in Donietsk and
Mariupol. More “democracy promotion”. . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black;">In our own country</span></b><span style="color: black;">, Wall Street has not yet chosen its candidate for President in
2016, but rumors are that the hedge-fund billionaires will back either a
reliable Republican or a docile Democrat – or, more likely, both. <b>As one
Egyptian summed up his election choices, “A plague or a cancer, which do you
want?”</b></span></span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-71466559582347061532014-05-09T11:13:00.001-07:002014-05-09T11:13:34.175-07:00Colonialism in Palestine -- and in the US<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just finished teaching a five-part course on <b>"The US in the Middle East" </b>at the UMass-Boston <a href="http://www.campusce.net/umb/course/course.aspx?C=101&pc=18&mc=&sc=" target="_blank">Lifelong Learning Institute</a>. Here are the final slides from my last presentation.<br />
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-40020023530203704262014-04-24T14:45:00.000-07:002014-04-24T14:55:03.542-07:00“As long as the Za’atar remains. . .”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's springtime, finally, here in New England. But in Palestine ethnic cleansing continues in every season. I thought I would post this short article that originally appeared at MONDOWEISS a few years ago.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;">“As long as the
Za’atar remains. . .”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">by Jeff Klein on
June 22, 2011</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/as-long-as-the-zaatar-remains-3.html">http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/as-long-as-the-zaatar-remains-3.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes a food
is more than just something you eat. The herbal condiment za'atar, a mixture of
dried thyme, sumac and sesame seed commonly eaten with olive oil and bread, has
become well known in recent years outside the Middle East, especially among
visitors and solidarity activists. In Palestine, it is a powerful cultural
symbol. <br />
<br />
Actually “za'atar” is the name of the thyme plant, which grows wild in the
hills and fields around the Arab lands of the Eastern Mediterranean. People
look forward to collecting the first Zaatar in the spring, and in Palestine “making
za'atar” refers to baking an oiled flat bread stuffed with newly gathered fresh
thyme and green onions. For many Palestinians it is a seasonal rite as well as
a communal cooking project, usually in an outdoor oven.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">“Making za'atar” in a Palestinian town within ’48 Israel</span></b></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Lately,
Palestinians in 1948 Israel have had to buy cultivated thyme rather than
collect it wild, as was the tradition. The Israeli authorities have declared
za'atar a “protected plant” and forbidden its harvesting on “state land.” Whether
this is a sincere conservation measure, rather than a form of cultural
repression, may be doubted. Cutting the wild thyme leaves allows the roots to
remain intact and grow a new crop within a short time. And, of course, what the
Israeli government calls “state land” was originally the expropriated
collective property of the native Palestinians.</span></span>
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Zionist concern for the pristine natural environment is highly selective, in
any case. Altering the original landscape and destroying the indigenous flora for
agricultural development – or more likely in recent years for real estate
speculation – has been a relentless practice since the earliest days of Jewish
colonization in Palestine. Of course, most of the country was never a “desert”
and <a href="http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/03/palestinians-made-the-desert-bloom.html">the
Zionists did not make it bloom</a>.<br />
<br />
The obsession with “tree planting” has long been a means to lay claim to the
land and remove the original inhabitants of Palestine. Pennies collected by the
children of Diaspora Jews for the Jewish National Fund more often than not went
to plant fast-growing pine or eucalyptus trees over the ruins of Arab villages
or to forest hillsides with non-native species in a manner that did violence to
the indigenous eco-systems but “redeemed” the landscape for the Zionist
colonizers. One result was the devastating series of forest fires that scorched
thousands of square kilometers in the Galilee last year.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Two refugees, a brother and sister, from
the destroyed village of Miske, near Kfar Sava, <br />
with the ruins hidden by Eucalyptus trees in the background.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The process of
Zionist “conquering the land” never ceased within 1948 Israel and continues to
this day on both sides of the Green Line. In the northern Negev/Naqab
traditional Bedouin towns are struggling to survive as ”unrecognized villages,”
deprived of public services, utilities, schools and roads -- while under
constant threat of expropriation and removal. One of these, Al-Araqib, a
village of 400 people north of Beersheba, has been flattened by Israeli
bulldozers more than once, supposedly to make way for a tree planting scheme
partially underwritten by US Christian fundamentalists. The Arabs are being
driven off their land to make way for a million trees called “The God Forest.”
(On the struggle of the Bedouins to stay on their land, <span style="color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://www.adalah.org/upfiles/2011/Thabet_English_2.pdf">see
this report</a></span>.)
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Every Sunday the
villagers of Al-Araqib, some now living in tents at the site of their destroyed
homes -- along with many children who have been forced to move in with relatives
away from the town -- gather to demonstrate at a nearby highway junction for
the return of their land. One of their chants goes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Samidoun, Samidoun, <br />
Ma baqiyye Za'atar wa Zeitoun</b> <br />
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We are staying, we are staying<br />
As long as the Za'atar and the Olive remain</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-33950286679142752142014-03-01T14:11:00.001-08:002014-03-02T09:11:58.824-08:00Reports and Impressions from 2004 -- Immigrant/Refugee Workers in 1948 Israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is a lot of publicity these days about Israel's attempt to deport immigrant workers and asylum seekers -- mostly from African Sudan and Somalia. But this is not a new phenomenon, as I learned in 2004 during my first trip to 1948 Israel.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2004 JAMP Israel-Palestine Trip </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Summary (Jeff Klein)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Tel Aviv,
Sunday, 18 January 2004</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is just past 5 p.m. and we are at the Open Clinic
for Migrant Workers, which is run by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel at
their Golomb Street
building. The waiting room is filling up
with patients of every color and a dozen nationalities. While the doctors with our JAMP group have
joined the Israeli physicians in treating patients, I sit among the people who
are waiting to be seen, trying to put them at ease so they will tell me their
stories. They are nervous --
understandably -- because as “illegal” foreign workers in Israel they are
subject to arrest and deportation by the feared Immigration Police.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">[Israeli NGOs like
Physician for Human Rights and others follow the usage of the United Nations in
employing the term “migrant worker” to describe the phenomenon of the cross
border movement of laborers. This is
considered less pejorative than “foreign worker” used by the Israeli
government, or “Gastarbeiter” (“guest worker”), first popularized in Germany during
the 1960’s. However, since “migrant
worker” has a different significance in the US, I have employed the term
“foreign worker” here, with no intention of denigrating the participants in
this category. (JK)]</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The PHR Migrant Worker
Clinic is open Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening from 5-9 p.m. for general
patients, and Monday night for gynecology service. In Israel, even “legal” foreign are
often denied state-mandated medical benefits and may have limited access to
health care. But “illegal” foreign
workers have neither health insurance, nor can they afford to pay the fees for
private care. And even if a worker has
the money, a visit to a regular hospital or clinic may risk exposure and
deportation. So, for many
foreigners, the PHR clinic is their only
safe health care option.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The patients at the PHR
clinic are reluctant at first to speak with a stranger. As “Kofi,” from Ghana said when I approached him,
“I have a lot of cares if I talk to you.”
“Joe,” another worker, from Nigeria, spoke with me briefly and
then moved away. However, as time passed
the waiting patients gained confidence and many of them began to speak
freely. I asked that they give me their
names for my notes, but made it clear that they could give any name they
wanted -- not necessarily the real one -- and
that I would use only first names in print.
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Kofi telephoned a friend
for advice and then returned to tell me his story. He was 38 years old and had been in Israel for 8
years. He tried going back home 2 years
ago, but could not find work in Ghana
and returned to Israel. Like most of the Africans in Tel Aviv, he
earned a modest wage cleaning houses. He
met his wife in Israel
and they had two girls Nancy, age 7 and Abigail, age 5, born in Tel Aviv. He told me that life had not been too bad
until Likud came to power and began to stigmatize foreign workers as
“destroying the economy” and “taking work from Israelis.” He had been arrested twice, most recently in
November 2003. He explained that the police had broken into his house and
beaten him in front of his children. He
produced the bail receipt for the 12,000 Israeli shekels he had to pay and
explained that he would forfeit the money unless he left the country.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fofana, 29 years old, had
arrived with her husband Abah from the Ivory Coast only a month before and they
were still looking for work. Lucy, from Ghana was 42
years old and had been working in Israel for 5 years cleaning
houses; she also reported a lot of
trouble with the police, who had once broken down the door to her apartment.
Claudine had been in Israel
for 5 years, her friend Clarisse for 8 years, both originally from the Congo; Giorgi and Sergei, burly-looking Russians
from Tiumen, arrived in 1999 and had jobs as security guards. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Juliet, 30 years old, from Ghana explained
that she had been in Israeli for 2 years with her husband Patrick, who had lost
his job as a printer in their country.
She had recently had a miscarriage and had to pay 1100 Israeli shekels
at the hospital. She earns 30 shekels
and hour (about $7), when she can work
-- above average pay for cleaning
houses.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Emmanuel, age 37, explained
how he had arrived 6 years earlier from Nigeria with his wife Barbara and a
group of 22 people traveling together to Israel as “tourists,” who stayed on to
work “illegally.” He had a daughter,
Kumi, born in Israel.
Emmanuel said that all his friends wanted to return to their country but were
unable to save up enough money for the cost of air fare home.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rosalia from Cali, Colombia
had been in Israel for 6 years, also cleaning houses; she had left behind her daughters Caterina,
now age 19, and Diana, now 22, neither of whom she had seen since leaving
Colombia. She was the only patient at
the clinic who was willing to have her photo taken.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Finally, Joe, who had been
reluctant to talk to me earlier but had been observing my other conversations,
sat down next me. He began to speak
passionately about the condition of foreign workers in Israel and
especially the racism encountered by Africans.
Joe, an intense middle-aged man, was a political science graduate from
the University of
Benin in Nigeria but had
worked for 10 years in Israel
cleaning houses and restaurants, sometimes as a security guard. He had come
originally with a tourist visa. “The
Israelis call us ‘kushi.’ Do you know
what that means? It’s like Nigger in
your country. And sometimes they refer
to us as ‘zeve,’ garbage.” He explained
that, unlike even in the US,
a child of foreigners born in Israel
can never become a legal citizen. And
the police constantly harass and arrest foreign workers, often with great
brutality. I asked “Joe,” why he didn’t leave Israel, then? He answered that he couldn’t earn a living in
Nigeria
and needed to send money home to support his family. “Of course, why would I stay otherwise?” he
said.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Joe told the story about a
recent police raid where an African man was bound and beaten bloody by the
immigration police. When neighbors, an
Israeli woman who was married to a Nigerian, tried to intervene, the police
beat that man also, handcuffed the woman and took them both to jail. “You can
read about it in ‘Manila magazine’,” he said.
When I looked puzzled, he repeated “’Manila
magazine’, you can get it in Neve Sha’anan, near the Bus Station.” </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Joe was emphatic that many
individual Israelis treat foreign workers with kindness. But the employers, the government and the police are a different
matter. “Do the Israelis not remember
their own history? The way they treat
foreigners, they do not even obey the commandments in their own scripture. Look in the book of Exodus, chapter 22,” he
said. I didn’t understand what the bible
could say about foreign workers in Israel, but before I got to ask,
Joe was called to be examined by a doctor and I didn’t see him again that
night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Later, Naomi, Guy and I
wander off to find a copy of “Manila”
magazine. Neve Sha’anan turned out to be
a down-at-the-heals pedestrian street, lined with shabby businesses catering to
foreign workers: currency exchangers,
offices for wiring money transfers, shops selling international phone cards and
electronics, loud music, cheap clothing and jewelry, “pip shows,” bars and
cafes where the languages of foreign workers were spoken and the TV’s played
non-stop cable shows from Istanbul, Kiev or Bucharest. Along the center of the walkway, impoverished
foreigners have spread their forlorn wares on blankets or tarps: broken-looking house wares and appliances,
used clothing, furniture, books, mismatched shoes. After much searching, we found a shop which
sold the magazine <b>Manila – Africa – Tel
Aviv </b> that Joe had told me
about. On the cover of the January 9
issue was a photo of Israeli plain-clothes officers kicking an African man who
was handcuffed and lay, apparently unconscious, on the ground. The headline referred to the article inside:
“An Unpleasant Encounter with the Immigration Police,” with more photos and an
interview with the mixed-race couple who were the protesting neighbors that the
police also arrested. Sarah, the Israeli
woman, had lost part of her family in the Holocaust. “It doesn’t matter what
the color of your skin is,” she told the interviewer, “the blood that comes
from under it is always red.”</span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[When I visited the PHR
clinic again on Tuesday I met a patient from Ghana who let me look in the bible
she was carrying. The passage “Joe” had
mentioned was <b>Exodus 22:21</b>. After
pronouncing the Ten Commandments, God gives further instructions that Moses is
to tell the Israelites, among them:</span></span><br />
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shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him,</b><b> for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JAMP Israel-Palestine Trip III</span></h1>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Summary (Jeff Klein)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Tel Aviv - </span><span style="color: black;">Monday, 19
January</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: black;">Manila-Africa-Tel Aviv</span></b><span style="color: black;"> magazine had much of interest besides the
news account I was looking for. In its
stories, columns and features, as well as its advertising, the magazine is a
colorful window into the life of foreign workers in Israel. On the magazine’s cover,
along with photos and headlines, were display ads for a travel agency offering
cheap one-way airfares to Manila
and the Natali Meat Shop (“Factory Price Here – Kingdom of Pork”). Inside, were news stories (deportation
proceedings against the magazine’s Filipino assistant editor; “Alfa Club’s
Karaoke Contest Grand Finale;” the latest on Michael Jackson); movie and music
reviews; gossip and advice columns, poems, puzzles and jokes (many written in
Filipino Tagalog), personal, job and rental classifieds, “Philippine News,”
“The Ghana and Nigeria Pages”, horoscopes, recipes (“Pork Roast with Fresh
Herbs,” “Christmas Sugar Cookies” by Rose Levy Beranbaum), sports (Serena
Williams!). And more ads: pages and
pages of glossy displays for travel agencies, calling cards (one with a special holiday offer in Hebrew, English
and Russian: “Deal! Deal! Deal! Buy a phone card, Get free Israeli ‘Goldstar’
Beer!), cheap electronics and household goods, international freight shippers,
plus restaurants, ethnic food and personal care products, social service
organizations, job offers (“CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. . . . ARE YOU LOOKING TO WORK
ABROAD?” “Work permits, Permanent
Residence in Canada,”
“Qualified Nurses Needed for Permanent work in the USA”)-- and lawyers (“We deal with all your cases and
legal problems: *Arrests *Deportations *Unpaid Salaries;” “HEZI COHEN LAW
OFFICE: Have you tried to marry an
Israeli spouse but encountered difficulties?
We can help you out!”). </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The next day I
telephoned <b>Manila-Africa-Tel Aviv</b>
and went for a visit. The magazine’s office is located within the Tachana
Merkazit, Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station, not far from the PHR clinic. The
building is a hulking pile of concrete and glass, looking like the offspring of
an aging urban shopping mall and a high-rise parking garage. Outside, apart
from some of the taxi drivers and police officers, almost nobody appears to be
native Israeli-born. The place seems an
extension of the nearby Neve Sha’anan pedestrian street that we visited the
night before. Like bus stations
everywhere, Tachana Merkazit caters to the transportation needs of the poorer
strata of society and is decidedly “downscale.” But here also is the added
factor that in Israel
people with alternatives tend to avoid crowded public spaces. The entrances to the station are cordoned off
with railings and gates manned by armed security guards who wield
explosive-sniffing wands and inspect all your bags -- on
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The cavernous interior of the
bus station was a confusing jumble of ramps and levels, each one of which
opened onto a crowded warren of food stands, garish storefronts displaying music CD's, clothing and shoes, cosmetics and books, whose clients were a varied
mixture of foreign workers and recent Israeli immigrants: a Russian vegetable
market here, an Ethiopian clothing and souvenir shop there; a video store selling titles in a score of
languages, a tattoo parlor with hip-hop tunes blaring from loudspeakers in
front.</div>
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The upper floors of the bus
station were intended for commercial office space and service businesses, but
the storefronts were mostly vacant and the corridors nearly empty of
pedestrians. Here, on the fifth level, were
the offices of <b>Manila-Africa-Tel Aviv</b>. I was met by Yossi Eitan, the publisher. He is a tall and casually-dressed Israeli man
of indeterminate middle age, with close-cropped balding hair. He speaks slowly
and softly out of a cloud of cigarette smoke and his expression suggests the
amused hint of an ironic smile beneath his half-closed eyes. There is something
Levantine in his relaxed manner, which contrasts with the normally gruff
bearing of Ashkenzi/European Israelis I have met. In fact, Yossi, though Jewish, was born and raised in Iran. We spoke for a while in his office and then
he introduced me to the staff of Manila-Africa-Tel Aviv.</div>
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The secretary-receptionist,
Vered Karp and the circulation manager, Nadav Cohen, are Jewish Israelis.
Correspondents Judy Li (Chinese) and Jocelyn Aquino (Filipina) are typing away
at computers while graphic designers, Dragos Nelersa (Rumanian) and Israeli
Sharona Mentesh are laying out the next issue of the magazine. Other writers and staff of similar mixed
nationality come in and out of the office while we speak.</div>
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Later I meet Yossi for coffee
in one of the bars along the nearby Neve Sha’anan pedestrian mall.</div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-50121968676420366432014-03-01T13:59:00.000-08:002014-03-01T15:52:51.404-08:00Reports and Impressions from 2004 - The Trade Unions in Palestine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The circumstances of my first visit to Palestine/Israel in 2004 are described in the previous post. For more on what was then called "The Jewish American Medical Project" (JAMP) and later The Health and Human Rights Project (HAHRP) see <a href="http://ajjpboston.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=55">here</a>.<br />
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What follows are a couple of reports I made then, principally focusing on the trade union movement and the work of <a href="http://www.phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=4">Physicians for Human Rights-Israel</a>, which was the Israeli partner of the project; in the West Bank, we worked with <a href="http://www.pmrs.ps/">Palestinian Medical Relief Society</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">2004 - JAMP
Israel-Palestine Trip</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summary (Jeff Klein)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Tuesday-Wednesday, 13-14
January – Ramallah: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The health care related
members of the group departed for clinical visits in Nablus and Jenin; Howard, Jan, Naomi and Jeff had a series of meetings with representatives
of the Palestinian workers’ movement and with human rights organizations
concerned with the issues of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first meeting, on
Tuesday morning, included representatives of the <b>Palestinian General Confederation of Trade Unions </b>(<b>PGFTU</b>) and staff of the <b>Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center</b> (<b>DWRC</b>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>PGFTU</b> is the largest Labor organization and the “official” trade
union movement in Palestine.<b> </b>Present at the meeting were:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mohammed Aruri,</b>
a member of the 8-member Executive Committee and assigned to the Legal
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Amna Mafarja/Rimawi</b>, also on the PGFTU Executive Committee and Secretary of the Women’s
Department;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abdel Raheem Khateeb</b>, member of the Secretariat of the Ramallah branch of the PGFTU and
representative of the Hotel and Service Unions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later, we were also joined
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hussein Tavil</b>,
who works in PGFTU media and propaganda and is also employed at <b>HDIP.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mohammed</b>, a
lawyer, has been active since the 1970’s in the PLO and was a Palestinian
delegate to the Madrid Conference that preceded the Oslo accords in the early
1990’s; <b>Amna</b> has also long been active in the PLO and the Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP); <b>Hussein</b> comes out of the Construction
Union and had once been an activist with the Communist Party. All had been arrested and detained many times
by the Israeli authorities. <b>Abdel Raheem</b>, who is younger, lost his
hotel job in Jerusalem due to the Israeli closures at the start of the current
Intifadah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>PGFTU</b> is an affiliate of the <b>International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions</b> (<b>ICFTU</b>); the US <b>AFL-CIO</b>
also belongs to the <b>ICFTU</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>PGFTU</b> has approximately 270,000 members in the West Bank and Gaza,
with 16 branches in all the major population centers, from Jenin to Rafah; 20,000 members belong to the Ramallah branch.
The <b>PGFTU</b> leaders stated that more
workers would like to join but Israeli closures and the “Apartheid Wall” have
made movement difficult and paralyzed economic life in the occupied
territories; Palestinian unemployment stands at more than 55% and over 70% of
the population lives in poverty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unemployment in some border
villages in the West Bank is even higher, since up to 90% of the workers used
to be employed in Israel and have now lost their jobs; there used to be more than 120,000
Palestinians workers in Israel, most of them technically “illegal” and without
social benefits. Even today, desperate Palestinian workers risk their lives
trying to cross into Israel for employment;
many have been killed or wounded at checkpoints or border crossings. The
<b>PGFTU</b> leaders pointed out that even
when Palestinians could work in Israel there was a kind of “apartheid” on the
job in which Palestinians were paid less than the legal minimum wage and denied
protections that were required under Israeli law. The <b>PGFTU</b> is involved in many legal cases in Israel, in collaboration
with Israeli lawyers, to secure benefits owed to Palestinian workers, such as
severance pay and insurance payments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently the unions have
paid emergency relief grants of $300 to unemployed families (made possible by
funding from Arab countries in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority
Finance Ministry), and delivered distributions of food made possible by the
Saudi government and the Red Cross. In
addition, the Palestinian Authority has authorized a 3-month extension of
health insurance for the unemployed.
Lately, the <b>PGFTU</b> has been
negotiating with the <b>PA</b> to implement
new Social Security legislation that was adopted during 2003.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>PGFTU</b> representatives complained that the Israeli trade union
federation <b>Histadru</b>t does little to
address this situation, even failing to carry out agreements that were signed
when Palestinians could legally work in Israel.
For example, <b>Histadrut</b> was
supposed to cover the legal fees of Palestinian claimants appealing Israeli
labor law violations and to forward part of the dues paid by Palestinian
workers to the Israeli unions. Since the
Intifadah, relations between the <b>PGFTU</b>
and <b>Histadrut</b> have been broken
entirely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later that same day we
visited the <b>PGFTU</b>’s somewhat
impoverished offices in Ramallah and met the union’s General Secretary, Shah<b>er Saa’d</b>. It was explained to us that the<b> PGFTU </b>(with funding from Norwegian
unions) had constructed a new headquarters building in Nablus, the West Bank’s
largest city, but the union offices were severely damaged (and eight staffers
wounded) when Israeli armed forces bombed the center of town during an
incursion in April 2002. Under the
subsequent curfew and occupation of Nablus, the PGFTU headquarters were invaded
by Israeli troops, who stole or smashed all the office equipment, scattered the
union’s files and left Hebrew graffiti on the walls: “Be careful, we will be back soon,” and “We
are the Power.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a result, and
considering that the on-going closures in Nablus made movement in and out
nearly impossible, the <b>PGFTU</b> moved
to temporary offices in Ramallah, with some new equipment purchased with aid
from other unions and the International Labor Organization (ILO).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>PGFTU</b> consists of 13 national unions, each with regional and local
organizations, in sectors such as Hotel/Tourism, Hospital, Textile/Clothing and
Construction. In addition to a 30-member
National Executive Committee (17 members from the West Bank, 13 from Gaza)
there are also central departments, including Organization, Education, Legal,
Women’s and Media/International.
Although the unions are not explicitly political, all secular parties or
tendencies are represented in its leadership and among its members: Fatah, Democratic Front, Popular Front,
People’s Party (formerly the CP) and FIDU (Palestinian Democratic Union
Struggle Front). So far the Islamic
Movement is not formally represented in the <b>PGFTU</b>, although there are a few nascent “Islamic” unions in
Ramallah and Nablus, which are outside the Federation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The roots of the
Palestinian labor movement can be traced back to the British mandate period,
when Jewish and Arab Communists established the first general trade unions in
1924, with membership open to all. Sectoral
unions in Construction and Printing were founded in 1944. After the partition of Palestine in 1948-49,
the <b>Histadrut</b> in Israel represented
both Jewish and Israeli Palestinian workers (at least in theory). The (Jordanian) <b>General Federation of Trade Unions</b> was established in 1965 in the
West Bank; and in Gaza, then under
Egyptian administration, unions were organized independently. After the Israeli conquest of the West Bank
in 1967, the <b>PGFTU</b> was founded as an
independent entity (in 1970), while the unions in Gaza remained separate until
merged with the <b>PGFTU</b> in 1994 during
the Oslo period. Prior to that, the
Palestinian trade unions -- which were outlawed by the Israeli Occupation --
operated clandestinely and the National Executive used to meet in Amman,
Cairo or the Torino (Italy) center of the ILO.
Today, the Gaza branch of the <b>PGFTU</b>
operates autonomously once again because communication with the West Bank has
been made impossible by Israeli closures and travel restrictions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following Web sites
have more information:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.pgftu.org/english.htm">http://www.pgftu.org/english.htm</a>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.pgftu-g.org/english/first-page.htm">http://www.pgftu-g.org/english/first-page.htm</a>
(for Gaza)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A US-Palestinian Labor Solidarity
organization was founded recently as an outcome of the tours of Palestinian
Labor Representatives in the US during 2002 and 2003:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.palestinelabor.com/index.html">http://www.palestinelabor.com/index.html</a>
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rights; among other functions it advocates greater democratization within
Palestinian society and in the unions.
The organization receives funding principally from European foundations,
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the DWRC General Director, was out of town attending the World Social Forum at
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and spoken in Boston under the sponsorship of Grassroots International)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>DWRC</b> has
branches in Jenin and Gaza as well as its main office in Ramallah. The organization helps Palestinian workers to
sue for their legal rights in Israeli courts, a daunting challange given the
usually high cost of lawyers and the difficulty for plaintiffs to appear in
Israel given closures and travel restrictions.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The DWRC and the PGFTU work together on labor issues
before the courts and on matters such as social security rights. However, the
DWRC is critical of the PGFTU for what it contends is a lack of internal
democracy and too close ties to political parties and the PA. (See more on this below.)</span></span></div>
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Ramallah, where a presentation on the work of the organization was made by
staff people we had met earlier, together with lawyer <b>Samar Amad</b> of the DWRC legal department, and <b>Mahmoud Ziadeh,</b> who heads the “Workers’ Freedom of Association and
Organizing Unit. As was the case with
many Palestinian organizations, the DWRC offices were severely damaged during
the IDF incursions of April 2002, when Israeli troops broke in the building,
destroyed or stole furniture and office equipment and general trashed the
facilities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The <b>DWRC</b> was
founded in 1993 after the start of the Oslo process by a volunteer group of
academics, lawyers and trade unionists.
Its goal is <b>“A Palestinian
society where peace and democracy, human rights, fundamental liberties and
social justice are the highest values in its political and social principles.”</b> The main target groups of the organization
are stated to be “workers and employees in the public and private sectors” and
“socially marginalized groups,” for example, women and children in Palestinian
society. The DWRC works to reinforce
democracy and enhance civil society through organizing, legal and humanitarian
aid, training, research and publications, lobbying, as well as directly
addressing issues of unemployment and poverty.
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“the negative consequences of globalization and the trade agreements on the
comprehensive development process in our countries, human rights and
fundamental liberties.” General Director
Hasan Barghouthi has participated in world anti-globalization forums in Italy,
Brazil and India. DWRC is a member of
the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations (IFWEA), the
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), the
Arab Network for NGOs and the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO). Recently the DWRC was instrumental in helping
to found a new Arab Federation for Democracy and Workers’ Education
Associations (AFDWEA), which held its first conference in Cairo during December
2003.</span></span></div>
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made a lengthy presentation on the work of the DWRC with trade unionists and
its relationship with the PGFTU.
Mahmoud’s personally history is worth summarizing: He was active in various capacities with the
Palestinian labor movement and the PGFTU since 1978; he once headed the
Construction and Public Services Union in Hebron (1981) and was later
Vice-President of the Hotel Workers of Jerusalem and President of three
different union federations; he spent
about 10 years in Israeli jails (and, as he recounted during the Tuesday
meeting of prisoners’ support organizations, his son is now held on a 30-year
sentence in Israeli prison without the right to have visits from his
family). Mahmoud says he eventually left
the PGFTU in a dispute over its lack of internal elections. He has worked for the DWRC since 2002.</span></span></div>
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critical of the PGFTU’s coziness with the PA and characterized the recently
proposed draft labor law as “violating international principles of free
association.” According to Mahmoud, the
law would restrict the right of workers to decide what unions or what types of
union to join by presenting a common “structure” of union organization that
would tend to empower top-down decision making.
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health insurance benefits would be offered only to PGFTU members.</span></span></div>
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unresponsive to the rank and file, undemocratic, ineffective, and bureaucratic -- and
being effectively management or government dominated.</span></span></div>
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criticisms, or to know how widespread the alleged problems may be. But such
issues are common to all trade union movements, including certainly in the
US. In my experience, there is often a
tension between the immediate desires of the rank-and-file membership and the
union leadership even in the most democratic unions. Charges of bureaucratism,
corruption and lack of responsiveness to the base are also widespread in many
labor organizations, even when they may be providing members with good
representation overall. It would be
surprising not to encounter such issues in Palestinian unions. Some of these
problems or contradictions are often more acute in countries or movements with
a relatively large state sector or close relationships with government or
political parties. On the other hand, “politicization” of unions is not exactly
alien to our experience in the Massachusetts or the US as a whole, particularly
among unions representing large numbers of public workers! (JK)]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">People sometimes ask me how I got involved in this issue to which I devote so much of my time and energy. The reality is that until the Intifada of the late 1980's -- and even more the Second Intifada of 2000 -- I didn't pay that much attention to Palestine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, I was generally aware of the Middle East wars launched by Israel or in response to Israeli occupation of Arab lands in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982. But I didn't know much about the history of Zionism (outside of the Hollywood version of "Exodus") or the general image of Arafat and the PLO as part of the anti-colonial Liberation upsurge of the 1960's and 70's. I was also aware that Israel was generally a supporter of the "wrong side" in the struggles in Central America and Southern Africa that I supported</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Palestine" as a place and Palestinians as a people did not mean much to me in those days, and I certainly had no direct and personal connection until 2002. That was when an acquaintance of mine from my days in Nicaragua during the 1980's -- I'll have to post about that eventually -- got in touch to ask if I could help arrange some speaking events for a group of visiting Palestinian trade unionists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I did set up some events in the Boston area, but more importantly, I hosted the visitors at my home. That was when I met two Palestinian trade union brothers who have remained dear friends ever since. They are Mohammed Saleh ("Abulabed") and Abdel Raheem Khateeb ("Abed"), both originally from the village of Arura, northwest of Ramallah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later, when some local Jewish activists were planning a delegation of mostly medical professionals to to the West Bank and 1948 Israel, one of them who was a labor lawyer asked me to help set up meetings with Palestinian unionists and to help organize the trip in general. I agreed, and after a while found myself invited to join the delegation, which I did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That two-week visit to Palestine in January, 2004 was eye-opening for me -- as it was for many of the delegation. It's one thing to read about a situation, but to struggle through the Israeli Occupation checkpoints alongside Palestinians, to see The Wall then under construction and the growing Israeli settlements all over the West Bank, to visit with families who have lost their land and homes -- this was extremely "real" and could not be ignored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Among other things, I also learned on that trip about the million-plus community of Palestinians who were residents of Israel, but who lived under constant segregation and discrimination as second-class citizens. One of these, Dr. Hassan Matani of the town of Qalansuwe, also became a friend whose family I visited many times afterward. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> After that, I returned to Palestine and 1948 Israel many times. The issue had become "personal" to me in a very intimate way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2009, after Israel's deadly "Cast Lead" attack on Gaza, I traveled with British MP George Galloway's "Viva Palestina" relief convoy to bring medical supplies to that besieged corner of Palestine. Eventually, I began to travel to Palestine via Lebanon -- where I got to know many people who also became dear friends -- and I also had the chance to travel through Syria (in 2009 and later) and Jordan (every year since then).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of this has been described in earlier posts -- for example <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2013/06/after-qusayr-we-are-coming-to-golan.html">here</a> and <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2013/06/is-lebanon-tea-party-dream-future.html">here</a> and following -- or will be the subject of future ones. </span></span> </div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-40942862608997043602014-01-07T11:25:00.002-08:002014-01-07T11:29:17.486-08:00The Limits of Acceptable Opinion: Is Palestine a topic too far?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A version of this was posted at <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/palestine-african-american.html">http://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/palestine-african-american.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Over the years I have been an occasional op-ed contributor
to a Boston African-American owned newspaper, <a href="http://baystatebanner.com/"><span style="color: blue;">The Bay State
Banner.</span></a> The editors gladly printed pieces of mine about Iran and the
price of gas (the Banner piece was removed – another version on CounterPunch <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/02/war-tax-at-the-gas-pump/">here</a>;
military <a href="http://baystatebanner.com/news/2012/nov/14/voters-have-spoken-will-washington-listen/?page=1">spending
and US Budget priorities</a>; a visit to an ANC colleague in South Africa (also
removed - a version reprinted <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2014/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html">here</a>).</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>But a few months ago, I submitted the following article
about Palestine and civil rights. It never appeared – and despite repeated
inquiries to the editor I never got an explanation as to why.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Israel is often called a democracy – even “the only
democracy in the Middle East.” That may be true in part – if we ignore the 2.5
million Palestinians with few rights under Israeli military rule for 46 years
in the Occupied West Bank, and another 1.5 million under continuous Israeli
siege in the Gaza strip.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But even within Israel’s recognized borders “democracy” is
mainly for the Jewish majority. The 25% of the population who are not Jewish –
over a million Muslim and Christian Palestinians – are nominally citizens of
the Jewish State, but in practice live their lives separate and unequal. In
many ways their status resembles African-Americans in the pre-Civil Rights
South.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On a trip to the Middle East last June I was able to
witness this situation first-hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some Palestinians in Israel live in impoverished urban
ghettos within the larger Israeli cities of a type that would be familiar here
in the US. But mostly they are forced to reside in separate and segregated
towns scattered in Israel’s center and north. In the south of the country,
approximately 70,000 Bedouins live in traditional villages which are
“unrecognized” by the state and so remain without basic services of water,
electricity and public schools (the Israeli government is in the process of
forcing tens of thousands of them off their land and into poor, segregated
townships that look a lot like “Indian Reservations”) Israeli regulations openly
codify goals to achieve “Judaization” – the promotion of Jewish settlement – in
regions of the country with high Palestinian populations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not surprisingly, Palestinians inside Israel fare poorly by
every economic and social measure compared to Jewish citizens. Unemployment is
markedly higher for them and wages for those who have jobs are significantly
lower; many jobs and benefits are out of their reach through formal or informal
restrictions. Palestinian towns are crowded and hemmed-in by Jewish-only
settlements and zoning laws that restrict residential construction. Most of
Israel’s land is reserved legally for Jews and Palestinians find it almost
impossible to buy or build outside of their own communities. Life expectancy
and infant mortality rates are significantly worse for Palestinians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of this might sound familiar to the historical condition
of racial minorities in the US. But in Israel there is an additional twist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A thorough-going system of affirmative action is built-in to
the Israeli legal structure, but it is a legal framework to benefit the already
privileged Jewish majority. ADALAH (“Justice” in Arabic), the <a href="http://adalah.org/eng/"><span style="color: blue;">Legal Center for Arab
Minority Rights in Israel</span></a> – an organization that functions somewhat like
the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the US – has <a href="http://adalah.org/eng/Israeli-Discriminatory-Law-Database"><span style="color: blue;">documented more than 50 Israeli laws that favor Jews</span></a>
over Palestinian citizens in all areas of life, including their rights to political
participation, access to land, education, state budget resources, and criminal
procedures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jewish communities receive significantly more per-capita
funding for education, health, recreation, transportation and housing; many
public sector jobs are reserved specifically for Jews. Given their inferior
segregated school system and the fact that entrance exams are exclusively in
the Hebrew language, Palestinians also find it extremely difficult to gain
entrance to Israeli universities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Defenders of Israeli “democracy” often point out that
Palestinians have the right to vote, and that is true. Three political parties
represent Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Israeli Knesset, with about 10%
of the seats (much lower than their percentage of the population).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But none of these parties has ever been accepted as a
partner in any of the dozens of Israeli coalition governments over the years;
no member has ever served in a national ministerial/cabinet post. In fact, the
Palestinian parties are under constant threat of being outlawed. A recently
proposed Knesset bill would remove their representation completely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And consider the fact that Israel uses exclusively Jewish
symbols in its flag and government, and its national anthem sings only about
the “Jewish soul yearning to be free.” It’s as though the US adopted the
Confederate Battle flag or replaced The Star-spangled Banner with “Onward
Christian Soldiers”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is not a system that would be recognized as a democracy
in any way that we understand it here in the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We, of course have plenty of work to do in order to achieve
real equality at home. Fifty years ago, Dr. King pointed out that “the Negro is
still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile
in his own land.” As we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March On
Washington, much still needs to be done, but progress has also been achieved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Israel though, Palestinians continue to be literally
“exiles” in their own land and to suffer legalized discrimination in many
spheres of life. Should the US continue to support that system with more than
$30 billion in military aid of the coming decade – especially with so many
unmet needs at home?</span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-72054529767942584222014-01-06T13:56:00.001-08:002014-01-06T15:09:43.740-08:00When “International Solidarity” was More Than a Slogan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an account of a meeting in Johannesburg with some international activists who risked a lot to help the ANC when the internal resistance had difficulty functioning within the Apartheid state. It took place while I was visiting my friend <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2014/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html"><span style="color: blue;">Jabulani</span></a> in June, 2012<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The ANC’s “London Recruits”</b></span></h2>
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/26/the-ancs-london-recruits/">http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/26/the-ancs-london-recruits/</a></div>
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by JEFF KLEIN</div>
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There was a reunion of sorts in South Africa last month.<br />
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A group of white-haired visitors, mostly Brits with a scattering of
other nationalities, were gathered at the University of Johannesburg
along with veteran leaders of the African National Congress, former
underground anti-Apartheid activists, students, faculty and
administrators. It was a genteel affair, with cocktails and canapés at
the posh Council Chambers of the University’s Kingsway campus, but the
atmosphere was as far as imaginable from the times and events that were
being recalled.<br />
<br />
The foreigners had once directly aided the resistance to Apartheid,
often at great personal risk to themselves; their host was Ronnie
Kasrils, one-time underground “terrorist” within South Africa, later a
leader of the ANC’s armed wing, Unkhonto we Sizwe (MK). For most of
them it was their first visit to free South Africa.<br />
<br />
Nearly everyone knows about the South African mass movement and the
ANC that, with significant international support, finally brought down
the Apartheid system after 1990. Sanctions, boycotts, diplomatic
pressure and isolation of the South African government played an
important role in defeating the racist regime. But another story went
on behind the scenes, in secret, which has never been told in detail
before and has remained largely unknown. This was the direct
participation over the years of international volunteers in the in the
fight against Apartheid under the direction of the ANC, facing off
against the ruthless South African security forces.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0850366550/counterpunchmaga" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-43385" src="http://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/londonrecruits.jpeg" height="275" title="londonrecruits" width="175" /></a>The event in Johannesburg celebrated the publication of a new collective memoire <span style="color: blue;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0850366550/counterpunchmaga">LONDON RECRUITS: The Secret War Against Apartheid</a></i> </span>(London: Merlin, 2012) which recounts some of that untold history.<br />
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In the mid-1960’s the internal resistance to Apartheid had been
largely crushed and dispersed. The ANC and the SACP had been banned
some years before, and after the Rivonia raids many of the movement
leaders who had gone underground to begin the armed struggle were
arrested and jailed. This was when Nelson Mandela began his long prison
term on Robben Island. Others had managed to escape abroad but had
lost contact with surviving internal anti-Apartheid activists.<br />
<br />
It was during this period of weakness and isolation of the South
African resistance that Kasrils and others who had found refuge in the
UK began to recruit volunteers who could use the cover of their foreign
passports and white skin to smuggle ANC and Communist literature into
the country. The scale was small but inventive methods carried out
largely by the internationals kept the flame of resistance and knowledge
of the ANC alive in South Africa until the movement took on new life in
the mid-1970’s.<br />
<br />
For example. the London recruits used false-bottom suitcases to
smuggle ANC and SACP literature into the country. Some of these
leaflets were circulated within South African through the post; others
were scattered in busy public streets using ingenious “leaflet bombs” –
shopping bags full of literature propelled by small time-delayed
explosive charges. ANC banners were unfurled over public buildings in
the downtowns; tape-recorded messages from exiled ANC leaders were
broadcast from loud speakers.<br />
<br />
The volunteers were drawn largely from the British working class
movement — the CP and other leftist groups, the trade unions — and
student contacts at the London School of Economics where Kasrils and
other ANC activists were enrolled; eventually they included
participants from Ireland, the Netherlands, the US and other countries
as well. The spirit of radical optimism and revolutionary fervor that
was widespread among young people and workers in the late 1960’s meant
there was no shortage of willing recruits. “<i>Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive</i>” – as Wordsworth remembered about an earlier revolutionary time.<br />
<br />
But this was also very dangerous work, as the volunteers understood.
In 1972 several of them were captured and tortured by the South African
security forces, then sentenced to long prison terms.<br />
<br />
Some of the veteran internationals, including Ken Keable, the editor
of the book, recalled their own experiences at the Johannesburg meeting;
others told their stories in chapters they wrote for LONDON RECRUITS.
The visitors also brought along one of the surviving smuggler’s
suitcases, which they donated to the Rivonia Museum of the South African
resistance.<br />
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After the Soweto uprising in 1976, the internal and external
movements gained a momentum which enabled them to challenge the
Apartheid regime more directly. The ANC rebuilt its underground network
within the country and its armed forces outside. Foreigners were no
longer needed for propaganda missions, but they did continue to aid the
struggle in other clandestine ways, again at great personal risk.<br />
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International volunteers contributed by helping to set up secure
communications networks or safe houses for ANC agents and armed fighters
in the frontline states and inside South Africa; others smuggled arms
into the country for the MK’s internal fighters. Some of this is retold
in the later chapters of LONDON RECRUITS and in the book’s introduction
by Kasrils. Memoires of this aspect of struggle, which was little
known even within South Africa, have also begun to appear in recent
years<br />
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It’s a story idealism and internationalism well worth remembering.
And that spirit is alive today also, as Kasrils, Tutu and other
anti-Apartheid veterans, having achieving their own county’s liberation,
now work with unstinting dedication in the cause of Palestinian
freedom.<br />
<br />
<i><b>Jeff Klein</b> worked for the ANC at its
headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia between 1987 and 1990. He recently
visited South Africa for the first time.</i></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-16326337926099474772014-01-06T13:32:00.001-08:002014-01-06T15:35:30.898-08:00NELSON MANDELA and the Unfinished Revolution in South Africa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Like Martin Luther King, Mandela<b>, </b>1918-2013,<b> </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has been praised after his death by hypocrites
who opposed everything he stood for while he was alive. Mandela was a staunch
supporter of revolutionary Cuba and the Palestine liberation struggle.
Apparently <a href="http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/cia-and-mandela-can-the-story-be-told-now/"><span style="color: blue;">the CIA played a role in his capture</span></a> by the
Apartheid authorities in 1962 – though this has been little noticed in the US
press. He was officially categorized as a “terrorist” by US law until 2006.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYVza9o-ZaHXCSRYip4ARVEVEO9z9xzIXoW-wjTE4enI4hfxpc6X9smx6XuNbRNMotJTNJM-RZtDmiUSfRRS48SH5hcKj0_nqjUkxn9rXMfCgpxnzpo_MdaE4ll1AYorsWFqYMG-bsKeYN/s1600/Mandela-Palestine.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYVza9o-ZaHXCSRYip4ARVEVEO9z9xzIXoW-wjTE4enI4hfxpc6X9smx6XuNbRNMotJTNJM-RZtDmiUSfRRS48SH5hcKj0_nqjUkxn9rXMfCgpxnzpo_MdaE4ll1AYorsWFqYMG-bsKeYN/s1600/Mandela-Palestine.png" height="315" width="320" /></a><span style="color: black;">Mandela was also a member of the South African Communist Party –
at least for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was nothing
unusual about that – the SACP functioned as a kind of brain-trust for the ANC
and included many of the movements leaders and activists in its ranks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, by and large the SACP served the
interests of the liberation movement, rather than the other way around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is still largely its function as part of
the governing ANC Alliance that has ruled South Africa since its first free
election in 1994.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The achievement of equal rights for all is no small thing.
Mandela’s role in this change has made him a beloved figure -- watch this <a href="http://za.news.yahoo.com/watch--the-most-touching-mandela-tribute-came-from-the-least-expected-place-070947330.html"><span style="color: blue;">touching video</span></a> for a heartfelt tribute to Mandela
by South African youth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">But as we have also learned in the US, it is not enough to lift
the oppressed out of enforced poverty and social subordination. Tragically, the
ANC came to power at the worst possible moment, when their allies in the Soviet
Bloc had collapsed and Neoliberalism seemed everywhere triumphant. Mandela and
the other ANC leaders suffered a failure of nerve and felt compelled to make
compromises that left Big Capital dominant in the new South Africa, now with an
occasional Black face in the boardroom. This set the stage for the sad
degeneration of the former liberation movement into the political spoils-seeking
and corruption that is evident today. Many former liberation movement
leaders have parlayed their political connections to achieve great wealth
within the corporate world. But if the South African elite is now partially
integrated, the poorest of the poor are still exclusively Black. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A detailed analysis by South African activist Patrick Bond:</span> </span></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/06/the-mandela-years-in-power/"><span style="color: blue;">The Mandela Years in Power</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Youth Day” in
South Africa, 2012 </span></b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When I <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.com/2014/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html">visited my old friend</a> in South Africa we spent Youth Day </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in the township of Atteridgeville, just outside the South
African administrative capital of Pretoria, where he lived.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the new South Africa June 16 is Youth Day, a national holiday commemorating the
1976 student uprising in Soweto which signaled the beginning of the end for the
Apartheid system.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The celebration is second in importance here only to Freedom
Day, which marks the date of the count first non-racial democratic election on
April 27, 1994 that made Nelson Mandela president of the country.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> This is what I wrote at the time.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Though just a few kilometers
away, the sprawling, dusty community of 45,000 could not be further from the
seats of government and economic power in this country. While the
“official” national Youth Day celebration rotated this year to the Eastern Cape
city of Port Elizabeth, where the news was full of factional maneuverings
within the ruling African National Congress and potential candidates for
president jockeying for support in the upcoming elections later this
year, here the day had a decidedly spontaneous and grass-roots spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Local youth
led the way in Atteridgeville, with a message of “back to Basics” calling for
more government support for education, job creation and improved public
services. Here the young people still idolize former ANC Youth leader
Julius Malema, who they refer to as “Juju”, despite his expulsion from
the ANC for his fiery populist rhetoric, strident attacks on the established
party leadership – and his sometime veiled threats of violent protest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poverty,
substandard housing and disastrously high unemployment are still urgent
problems in Atteridgeville and other townships, despite the political emancipation
that was achieved with the end of Apartheid 18 years ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The needs are
daunting. Although there has been significant progress in South African
development under democratic rule, wealth and economic power continues to
remain in the hands of the large corporations and the wealthy – now including
black as well as white billionaires. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Atteridgeville, tiny older brick houses crowd the neighborhoods, alternating
with new zones of makeshift corrugated iron shacks sheltering more recent
migrants from impoverished rural areas arriving in search of scarce urban jobs.<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Many of them have no access to water, electricity or toilets. Resources
at the disposal of the ANC government remain inadequate to meet the challenges,
and frequent revelations of official corruption have further undermined
confidence in the reform process.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nevertheless,
the youth celebration in Atteridgeville was enthusiastic and joyful. We
followed a parade of cars and vans that wound its way through the narrow
township streets, horns tooting, young people leaning out of the doors and
windows waving colorful ANC banners and loudly shouting political
slogans. Town folk cheered the kids with shouts of support and
clenched-fist salutes. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now and again
the caravan would stop for a spontaneous march with high-energy singing and the
traditional bouncing “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5OfDFK1yyU">toyi-toyi</a>” dancing that was seen everywhere during the
anti-Apartheid struggle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The parade
climaxed with a big demonstration at the new township shopping center – itself
a visible sign of progress in recent years. Before that, the residents of
Atteridgeville had to buy what they needed at tiny – and expensive – local
“Spaza Shops” or travel a long way into the city.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finally, the
activities ended at an indoor hall, where youth leaders spoke to the crowd and
also invited contributions by older veterans of the freedom struggle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My
friend Jabulani, a participant in the original 1976 Soweto protests and now
after years in the ANC guerilla army Ukhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”) a
colonel in the new South African National Defense Force, spoke about the
struggle to achieve the liberation of South Africa.</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> He recounted to the
young audience how the events unfolded after 1976 that lead to the defeat of
Apartheid -- though not without the sacrifice of many thousands in exile,
underground political organizing, mass protests and armed resistance.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I’m old
now. People of my generation laid the groundwork for you young people,
who have grown up in a democratic South Africa. But the work of building
a truly free and just country has a long way to go.” He added: “The
future is up to you. The torch is yours to carry.” The young crowd
cheered.</span></span></span></span></div>
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back to Pretoria, where once only whites were allowed to live, it was natural
to think about the larger significance of the Soweto youth rebellion – and not
just for South Africa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was hard to
disagree with the words I read the next day, in City Press column by
Sibongile Mkhabela, director of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The 1976
uprising was a wake-up call to all sectors of society. It gave new
meaning to the spirit of resistance, the civil rights movement and black power
among communities in South Africa and elsewhere -- including that bastion of
white supremacy, the United States… We have not yet reached the end
of our journey.”</span></span></div>
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recent death of Nelson Mandela brought back a lot of memories for me – and prompted
this new blog entry after many months of no new postings. For those who have followed this blog and
wondered about the silence here, I have no special excuse. Just the press of ordinary daily routine,
coupled with feeling the lack of anything very original to say.</span><br />
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worked for the African National Congress in Lusaka from 1987-1990. The article below was written on the eve of
my first visit to a free South Africa in June 2012, where I had a long-postponed
reunion with an old comrade from the struggle.
I hope eventually to post some further accounts of my work with the ANC
and my visit to South Africa, along with some of the many interviews I had with
“Wiseman’s” family members and comrades in the struggle – mostly military men and
underground fighters during the anti-Apartheid struggle.</span></div>
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two color photos just below are my own; the black-and-white one is from Ronnie Kasrils’
book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Armed-Dangerous-Undercover-Struggle-Apartheid/dp/0435909835">ARMED AND DANGEROUS</a> (Kasrils is pictured in the center; Lulamine Dantile, on the
right, was assassinated by Apartheid agents in Lesotho); the last photo was
sent to me by my friend Jabulani/Wiseman)<b>. </b>The large photo of Nelson Mandela appeared with the original article in the June 7, 2012 issue of the <a href="http://baystatebanner.com/">Bay State Banner</a>, an African-American owned newspaper in Boston (the original link no longer works).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Many international volunteers helped the ANC over the years. I wrote about meeting some others while I was in South Africa: </span><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/26/the-ancs-london-recruits/">When “International Solidarity” was More Than a Slogan: The ANC’s “London Recruits”</a></div>
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Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was almost 22
years ago, in June 1990, when the famous South African leader traveled here —
just a few months after being released from prison on Robbin Island. Mandela
had been held in detention for almost 28 years as a “terrorist” for resisting
the apartheid system of white minority rule in his country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The highlight of
Mandela’s visit was his joyful appearance on June 23 before a huge crowd at the
Hatch Shell on the Esplanade. I was there, pushing my nine-month-old son,
Andrew, along in a stroller. My little boy — his middle name is Nelson —
had a homemade flag with black, green and gold ribbons, the colors of the
African National Congress.</span><br />
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watched Mandela from up close in the so-called “VIP Section” near the stage.
This was because, over the previous several years, I had been working for the
outlawed African National Congress at its exile headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia.
Andrew was born while I was on a visit home from Africa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After 1990, when
apartheid was abolished, my colleagues from Lusaka were able to go home and my
work for the ANC ended. I returned to Boston for work and to raise my family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s hard to
believe, but Andrew, who was referred to by my co-workers in Lusaka as “Little
ANC,” is graduating this spring from university. His sister, Rachel, who was
not yet born at the time of Mandela’s visit, is a college junior. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Over the years,
I kept in touch with my closest friend from the ANC, who I knew in Zambia as
“Wiseman Goldenway.” But this wasn’t his real name. Like most of the
anti-apartheid activists in exile, he used an undercover identity to protect
himself and his family back home from reprisals by the South African security
forces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In those days,
anyone who dared to struggle for a country with one vote for one person, black
or white, was considered a “terrorist” by the apartheid regime — and also by
successive U.S. administrations. Many of them had done prison time at home and
risked assassination abroad at the hands of South African agents. More than a
few ANC members in exile were killed or gravely wounded by bomb or bullet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Today, my friend
— whose real name is Jabulani Jali — serves as a colonel in the South African
army and lives in Pretoria (near Johannesburg) with his Angolan wife and
teenage son. His story is emblematic of many South African young people of his
generation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jabulani grew up
in Soweto Township, outside “white” Johannesburg. In 1976, he joined the
student protests against government-mandated instruction in Afrikaans — the
language of the Boer colonizers — that sparked a new and militant upsurge of
resistance to apartheid. </span></div>
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powerful international movement to boycott and isolate the apartheid regime.
The Soweto rebellion by high school teenagers marked the beginning of the end
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jabulani, like
many others, left to join the ANC outside the country. After military training,
he fought alongside Angolans and Cubans to defeat an invasion by South African
troops supporting the CIA/Zaire-backed UNITA rebels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eventually, when
Nelson Mandela was elected president of a new democratic South Africa in 1994,
the commander of the once “terrorist” ANC army was appointed his Defense
Minister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For many years,
Wiseman/Jabulani has been pressing me to come for a visit to South Africa,
which has always been postponed for one reason or another. I was busy with
work, raising a family and union activism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the meantime,
I did manage to make a number of trips to Israel and occupied Palestine — where
many South Africans say they recognize a system comparable to the old days of
minority rule at home. I thought so too, although I had never experienced the
original apartheid first hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those trips to
Palestine reminded me that there was no excuse to delay another journey. So,
finally, I’m going to South Africa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Post-apartheid
South Africa is wrestling with serious problems: Poverty, government cronyism
and the struggle for a more equal distribution of the country’s wealth. But the
country has made an enormous stride in achieving equal rights for all its citizens,
regardless of color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ll be there
with my friend Jabulani to mark the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising on June
16. They call it “Youth Day” now and in Free South Africa it’s celebrated as a
national holiday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<i>Jeff Klein is a retired machinist and local union president active with
Dorchester People for Peace. </i></span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-15045927726333148322013-07-03T21:41:00.004-07:002013-07-10T11:24:12.504-07:00"We failed."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;">Published also at Mondoweiss: <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/palestinian-activist-abandons.html" target="_blank">‘We failed’ (In which a Palestinian activist abandons the peace process)</a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One of the advantages of
return visits to Palestine over a period of years is to get a sense of the way
the situation is developing over time. Unfortunately, in coming here many
times over the past ten years, the impression I have is of an constant
deterioration of the political landscape and the palpable loss of hope for any
short-term improvement.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thousands greet Mohammed Assaf, the Palestinian "Arab Idol" in Ramallah on July 1; few Palestinians turn out for political demonstrations these days</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As an activist, my first
direct personal connection with Palestine came in 2002, before I ever visited
the country. In 2002 I helped to host a US tour of Palestinian
trade-union representatives and organized a couple of speaking events in
Boston. I have kept in touch with them and spent some time with them
almost every year since 2004 when I visited Palestine for the first time.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mohammed, known to his
friends as “AbulAbed,” has a history like many aging activists here. Mohammed
is gentle, modest, soft-spoken and, like nearly all Palestinians, generous and
welcoming to visitors. You can say there is not a violent bone in his
body. And yet, he spent a good part of his life in and out of Israeli
prisons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mohammed’s family story is
one of those which encompasses many aspects of the Palestinian experience.
Although he lives in Ramallah now, Mohammed is originally from the
village of Arura, not far from Bir Zeit. Like many Palestinians in their
60’s he is only one generation removed from the land. His father Mahmoud
was a fellah, born in 1890; during the First World War he was drafted into the
Ottoman army, serving (as was the intention for Arab recruits) far from home in
the Gallipoli campaign near Istanbul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After the war Mahmoud had a
number of children from his first wife, married again after she died, and then
was widowed a second time. In 1948, at the age of almost 60, he married
an 18-year-old refugee, one of thousands expelled from villages near Lidda (now
the site of Ben-Gurion Airport) and living under trees or in caves in the
countryside around Ramallah. This was Mohammed’s mother. (The same
pattern of desperate young refugee women compelled to marry much older men is
now being repeated among those fleeing across the borders to escape the
violence in Syria.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mohammed was a promising
student and eventually won a scholarship to study law in Beirut at the new Arab
University. Like many others of his generation, he became active in
nationalist politics as a student, was elected to the University leadership and
joined one of the leftist factions in the PLO, the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). He says he was attracted by the DFLP’s
commitment to stand “with the poor people.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mohammed’s university career
in Beirut was cut short by the civil war in Lebanon and he went to Cairo to
finish his degree. Then, returning home, he got a job with the
Jerusalem-Ramallah water company and began his career as a trade union
activist. This (and never any accusation of violence) is what landed him
repeatedly in Israeli prisons. Unions were outlawed by the Israeli
occupation authorities until after Oslo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After 1990, Mohammed and many
other DFLP activists broke with the organization to participate in the early
peace process begun under the first Bush administration. He was a
delegate to the Madrid peace conference in 1991 -- though it took a strike by
the whole delegation for him to get permission to travel, which the Israeli’s
at first refused because of his “criminal record.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Since then, “the peace process”
has delivered only process and no peace, as readers<span style="font-size: small;"> here</span> well know.
Mohammed left the mainstream Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
(PGFTU) because of its obvious corruption and subordination to the interests of
the Fatah Party. He worked, often without pay, for the independent trade
union federation and as an organizer for the Palestinian Democratic Union
(FIDA) Party, which became the political vehicle for dissidents from DFLP who
participated in the Oslo process and the Palestinian Authority. Often, Mohammed
and his family had to rely only on his wife’s income as a school teacher,
including during the seven times he was jailed. His wife’s family are
1948 refugees from Haifa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, Mohammed, like many
others of his generation, recognizes that the peace process has become a dead
end. He regrets the years he spent in jail, missing a good deal of his
children’s growing up. He is now intensely involved in helping to arrange
for their education. His oldest child, Mahmoud, studied chemistry and biology
for a BS degree at a Quaker college in the US, where he is now working; one
daughter is finishing her university course in genetics at Irbid in Jordan;
another won a scholarship for a seven-year medical degree in Tunis; and his
youngest son, Sami, is now completing the very stressful Palestinian high
school leaving exams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I asked Mohammed if any of
his children were involved in politics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He said, “Not at all.
Why should they want to go into politics? We set a bad example for them.
We sacrificed and we struggled for our state but we did not succeed. We
failed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mohammed is philosophical
about the defeats suffered by the Palestinian national movement. He still
finds the strength to struggle, but he is not expecting any positive outcome in
the near future. Unlike some others, he refuses to compromise his
principles with job-seeking in the PA – or money-chasing in the NGO world that
has substituted for political organizing in much of the Occupied West Bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Instead, he is returning to
his roots on the land. Mohammed has been preparing for his retirement by
developing a three-dunam family plot in the hills above Arura on which he has
been planting fruit trees and vegetables. His attachment to the little
garden plot is passionate and it is profoundly moving to observe the joy he
gets from working in his “bustan.” Mohammed proudly shows off the
calluses from long days of digging, planting and watering. Not the hands
of a lawyer now. “No matter what happens,” he says, “we will always have the land.”</span></div>
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* * *</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All over the West Bank,
disillusionment and retreat from politics is widespread. Tens of
thousands turned out the other day in Ramallah to greet the new “Arab Idol”
Mohammed Assaf, but political parties can barely turn out a few dozens for
demonstrations or protests. The local struggles against the wall in
places like Bil’in, Nabi Saleh, Beit Ommar, and Ni’ilin are brave but
small-scale and largely isolated -- mostly symbolic rather than politically
effective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But ironically, in the midst
of their apparent triumph and the seeming pacification of the Palestinians on
both sides of the Green Line, it is the Israeli Zionists who seem to be
affected by a deep-seated angst. Life may good for Israeli Jews
right now, but there is also a lingering uncertainty about their long-term
prospects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Increasingly shrill and
self-pitying propaganda speaks of “de-legitimization” and “existential
threats.” However, the real threat to Israel’s existence comes not
from Iran, or Hezbollah or terrorism or even from supposedly eternal
anti-Semitism. In fact, Israel will never be “legitimate” until its Jewish
population finds a way to live in peace and genuine equality with its
indigenous Palestinians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The dream of a Europeanized
outpost within the Arab world is a project that was tried at different times in
the past and eventually ended in failure. Perhaps deep down many Jewish
Israelis remember the experience of Algeria, which the colonists considered an
overseas province of Metropolitan France until they were forced to leave after
130 years of implacable native resistance. Or even closer to home, where the
Crusader States ruled a European enclave in the Levant for almost two centuries
before their defeat and expulsion. Only a scattering of impressive ruined
castles and some lovely Gothic churches in Jerusalem remain behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Is it any accident that so
many Israeli Jews of European descent – faced with the endless prospect of
living in a hostile region and the gradual Talibanization of their own country
at the hands of Jewish religious extremists -- are leaving for the freer air of
New York, Silicon Valley and even Berlin? No one knows for certain the
exact figure, but it is thought that millions of Israelis of Ashkenazi origin
possess passports from countries other than Israel. And even fanatic
Zionist settlers from Brooklyn are not volunteering to give up their dual US
citizenship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">On the other side, while many
Palestinians acknowledge the current defeat of their national project they
still maintain a stubborn historical optimism. Amidst the despair of the
moment they cling fiercely to their land -- and their memories are long.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlRNk_iZszYZCYzYfCoF-cRECQ3FExJsP1bpwgbO31AhH7GE7O8Slnxon-02AfJjooyfz9vlHs_gHBosswBoAK_WCsaJfPzgJcOQcx-eK-YnXaqDUzNepdBkYMcR-cCFAq2CRVYqzL3eah/s1600/IMG_2663.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlRNk_iZszYZCYzYfCoF-cRECQ3FExJsP1bpwgbO31AhH7GE7O8Slnxon-02AfJjooyfz9vlHs_gHBosswBoAK_WCsaJfPzgJcOQcx-eK-YnXaqDUzNepdBkYMcR-cCFAq2CRVYqzL3eah/s400/IMG_2663.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al-Quds Street in Qalansuwe, also spelled out phonetically in Hebrew</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the crowded, segregated
town of Qalansuwa, in what is called “The Arab Triangle” of central 1948
Israel, one end of the dusty main road pointing east toward Tulkarem just
across the Green Line, was recently renamed Al-Quds Street. It is, rather
defiantly, spelled out that way phonetically in the Hebrew version on
its signpost, instead of the usual “Yerushalayim.” The cash-starved town faces huge
challenges in maintaining its schools and public services, with a huge backlog
of badly-needed infrastructure improvements. But in the square at the
other end of Al-Quds Street one of the few recent public investments was the
erection of a statue of Saladin -- who liberated Jerusalem a little more than 800
years ago.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Statue of Saladin in Qalansuwe</td></tr>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-45292411977641333892013-07-01T12:30:00.001-07:002013-07-02T04:40:08.347-07:00Meet Mr. Palestine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Imad AbdulAziz</td></tr>
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<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/images/2013/06/IMG-2685-1.JPG" title=""IMG 2685 1" "><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a>
(June 29, 2013, published also at <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/meet-mr-palestine.html" target="_blank">Mondoweiss</a>)<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I met Mr. Palestine today in Nablus. Really.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">‘Imad AbdulAziz won the title Mr. Palestine in a body-building championship
in the year 2000. As usual here, things get a little more complicated, even in
a seemingly benign sport like bodybuilding.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">‘Imad is 53 years old and he has been a member of the leftist Palestinian
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) since his youth. As a consequence
he has been arrested by the Israeli security services 17 times and he has spent
a total of about 6 years in almost every prison in the West Bank and 1948
Israel. This also included a stretch of hard time in the outdoor detention
facility in Israel’s Negev Desert.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">‘Imad was never accused of any violent crime. The only “guns” he ever
carried were between his elbows and his shoulders. Even now, somewhat past his
prime, ‘Imad’s biceps are pretty impressive.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">But under the Israeli occupation any kind of political activism was
criminalized by the authorities. In fact, it’s hard to find any adult
Palestinian man who has not spent time behind Israeli bars.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Like many, ‘Imad was repeatedly arrested under Israel’s “Preventive
Detention” law. He recalls that once in 1985 he was re-arrested at his
welcoming home party upon being released from prison.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">He was also frequently tortured while under detention, including one time
being shot in both legs and almost bleeding to death.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Somehow during all this ‘Imad managed to earn a degree in 1982 from An-Najah
University in Physical Education, to marry and have six children – and continue
to compete as a bodybuilder. In 2000 he topped the Palestinian team at an
international meet in Baghdad, where he won the title of “Mr. Palestine.” He
got a check for $10,000 from Saddam Hussein.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Since then ‘Imad has been the media spokesperson for the PFLP in Nablus, a
position that has also gotten him in trouble with the Palestinian Authority. In
2004 he was arrested and detained for 17 days in a PA prison for speaking
publicly about official corruption.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Today ‘Imad is the director of the Al-‘Amaria Secondary School. He walks
with a noticeable limp from his gunshot wounds, but he has a sunny outlook,
with a ready smile. And he can still make his pecs dance.</span>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-11253427075924355762013-07-01T09:47:00.000-07:002013-07-10T09:55:51.016-07:00“You can’t get there from here.”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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years, but this was the first time I traveled there from Jerusalem the, um, “non-Palestinian way.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Central Bus Station is now easily accessible
from the Damascus Gate via the new light rail system that seamlessly moves
through both Occupied and 1948 Jerusalem neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trams are operated by the French
mega-corporation Veolia, which also runs several bus lines to the Israeli
settlements and is the subject of an international boycott campaign.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Veolia,
originally </span><span style="font-size: small;">the French Compagnie Générale des Eaux<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and later Vivendi, was a pioneer in the
privatization of water utilities and other public services and operates in 77
countries around the world, including the US, where it runs several privatized
municipal water and waste-water systems – and also the Easy Shuttle service
from DC-area<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>airports.)</span><br />
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Egged Bus #160 <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">goes direct to Hebron the via the settlements
stretching south from Jerusalem and costs only 9 sheqels (about $2.50).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The comfortable air-conditioned bus is filled
with Jewish commuters and shoppers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are few tourists and no Palestinians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In theory anyone can take the bus, including
Arab residents of Jerusalem, but in actuality few of them have any business in
the Jewish settlements and they would have to walk a considerable distance from
the bus terminus in Hebron and pass through a military checkpoint to reach the
main commercial area of the city not under settler control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The bus travels south out of Jerusalem, past the
Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Safafa and crosses into the Occupied West bank
(with no sign of any border), stopping at the huge settlement of Gilo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Then it proceeds along Route 60, tunneling under the
Palestinian town of Tantur and passing Bethlehem, hidden behind high walls
lining the highway. Signposts indicate the side roads to a succession of
Israeli settlements in this part of the West Bank:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beitar Ilit, Beit Sharon, Efrat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Along here the Arabic language names on the road signs
are mostly scratched out, painted over or covered by settler stickers. The turnoffs
to the Palestinian villages along the way --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>El ‘Arub, Beit ‘Ummar, Halul -- are mostly marked by looming guard
towers and security gates.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jewish Settlement of Karmiel Tzur</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Israeli army base near Hebron/Khalil</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After a slight detour for a stop at the settlement
of Karmiel Tzur and passing the army base that houses the security forces
for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the protection of the settlers in
this area, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got off the bus at Kiryat
Arba, the Jewish settlement on the East and Southern edge of
Khalil/Hebron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From here it’s only a
short walk down the “Machpela” as the Jews call the Mosque/synagogue of Abraham/Ibrahim.</span></div>
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the town, where I met the soft-spoken “Development Director” of the settlement,
Shai Solomon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was kind enough to show
me the archaeological museum housed in the same building and he also gave me a
glossy map of Kiryat Arba and vicinity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Solomon seemed a little chagrined when I asked him for directions to the
grave/monument of <a href="http://atmyangle.blogspot.co.il/2013/06/heart-of-darkness.html" target="_blank">Baruch Goldstein,</a> the perpetrator of a1994 massacre of 29 worshipers at the Mosque.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He warned me emphatically not to walk
the half-mile from Kiryat Arba down to the Jewish settlement around the
Machpela because “there were Arabs there.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiryat Arba street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grave of Baruch Goldstein; Khalil City beyond</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edge of Kiryat Arba overlooking Hebron/Khalil, "Danger, Arabs!"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So I got a lift from a passing car, driven, it
turned out, by a bearded and earlocked young man from Brooklyn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said his job was to “keep up the morale of
the soldiers” guarding the Jewish settlement within Hebron/Khalil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t clear what that meant, other than
encouraging them to repress the local Palestinian population more
enthusiastically.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Machpela" / Ibrahimi Mosque</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The area around the Machepela, once a bustling
Palestinian commercial area, was now desolate. Workshops all around were ruined
and empty, the storefronts along the main street with their steel shutters
welded closed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The streets around there
were absolutely off-limits to Palestinian vehicles and mostly to pedestrians
also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a depressing scene.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street scene near Machpela</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nor did the 400-850 (estimates vary) Jewish settlers
constitute much of a real urban community of their own, with any commercial or
community life to speak of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
principle activity of the half who were Yeshiva students was to pray and study
Torah;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the rest were apparently most
engaged in occupying a piece of a city sacred to them, having babies and
waiting for the day when the Arabs would somehow disappear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beit Hadassah settlement apartments and museum</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The rebuilt old Beit Hadassah housed a museum documenting
the ancient Jewish presence in Hebron, and offered a lot of glossy but crude
propaganda publications all seemingly financed by The Hebron Fund in Brooklyn
and various other Jewish-American donors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The lives of the Palestinian residents stubbornly
clinging to their homes among the Jewish settlers of Hebron is not easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Israeli army guard tower over Palestinian house</td></tr>
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</span>I met some kids on the street who took me to
the home of Hashem ‘Azzeh on the hill of Tell Rumeida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His neighbors, just above, were a group of extremist
Orthodox Jews led by the American-born Baruch Marzel, who frequently attacked
his house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hisham’s front door, which faced
the settlers, was ordered sealed by the Israel authorities, so the only way to
his house was a steep, winding and rocky footpath up the hill, and through the properties
of his Palestinian neighbors.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hashem "Azzeh and family - settlers' houses just above and behind</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After visiting the Jewish-controlled shrine of
Abraham in the Mosque/Synagogue, I asked the soldiers at the security
checkpoint in front if it was possible to enter the part of the building
housing the Ibrahimi Mosque, whose entrance was just beyond, not 50 feet
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said no, “you can’t get there
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</span>I would have to return to
the Palestinian-administered part of the city, about a kilometer in the
opposite direction and then circle back through the old marketplace and past
another Israeli security checkpoint – where I have witnessed Palestinians
brutally humiliated by the Israeli border police. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I decided to skip this exercise, having seen the
Mosque on another visit and anxious to return back to Jerusalem – this time “the
Palestinian way.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walking back and crossing
the Israeli checkpoint into the commercial center of Khalil was like a trip <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>through the looking glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Arab city was vibrant, noisy and alive
compared to the desiccated empty streets around the Machpela.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you are Palestinian, you can’t travel directly
from Khalil to Jerusalem. first you have to take a “servis” van or bus to
Bethlehem, then change to another bus or van for the rest of the trip – but on
the way you have to stop at an Israeli security checkpoint where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exit the bus and show your papers. If you don’t
have Israeli citizenship, Jerusalem ID or special permission you can’t go to
Jerusalem at all, even if you grew up within sight of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Traveling while Palestinian, of course, takes much
longer, and costs more too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The combined
fare to Bethlehem and then Jerusalem is 14 sheqels, compared to the 9 sheqels
paid by Jewish settlers on the direct bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“<b>Transportation Apartheid</b>” is a phenomenon you meet
all over the Occupied West Bank – but within 1948 Israel as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When traveling from Jerusalem to see friends in the Israeli-Palestinian
town of Qalansuwe (not far from Tulkarem in the West Bank) I discovered that
the main Israeli bus company barely services the segregated Arab communities scattered
over central and northern Israel. (Most of the Bedouin communities in the Negev
are not officially “recognized” by the government and have no public services,
water or electricity altogether, and the population is being threatened with
forcible removal.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When I attempted to reach Qalansuwe on a previous occasion
I took the bus to nearby Kfar Sava, but couldn’t find public transportation to
any of the nearby Palestinian towns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
there were buses readily available to the Israeli settlements across the Green
Line in the Occupied West Bank. This time I got a little closer with a bus to
Netanya, but again there were no options to connect with any public
transportation to Qalansuwe or any of the Palestinian towns nearby. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These separate and unequal services – and not just
in transportation – have real economic consequence for the Palestinians living
as citizens within Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example,
the relative lack of labor-force participation by Arab women is often cited as
an illustration of “cultural backwardness” in Palestinian society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the real cause of Palestinian women
staying at home is more likely connected with the unavailability of state-subsidized
childcare services, usually readily accessible in Jewish communities, and the
serious inadequacy of public transportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jewish working mothers, of course, are more likely to have their own
cars than women in much poorer Arab communities.</span></div>
</div>
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740252820987346649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-895348527998434600.post-85041645922207390542013-06-26T01:53:00.000-07:002013-06-26T01:55:33.567-07:00Climate Change and SyriaThe origins of the revolt against the al-Assad regime in Syria -- aside from foreign intervention which may have started very early --were driven at least in part by a severe drought over much of the country. Farmers and their communities suffered, people migrated to the cities from the countryside. It was part of the mix that made politics in Syria very volatile and susceptible to social unrest exacerbated by foreign interests and the clumsy response of the regime.<br />
<br />
This may be related to a recurring pattern in the region which goes back thousands of years. <br />
<br />
I wrote about this a while ago:<br />
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