It's good for me to hear everybody on this. I don't know but will not be surprised if some power interests will do everything to 'go ostrich' on what has happened. Until the next and the next incidents - what is it, 'righteous settler outrage' an old trope mixed in with 'theo-nationalism' from both directions. A bad chemical mix with a long history.
Anyway, maybe more later, I am off to watch 'the event' in the town square on a blessedly beautiful sunny day.
& somebody says Cheney is going out in a wheelchair! My goodness! Symbolism replete.
Stephen V
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inverted commas and such
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 6:49 AM
Sounds fairly convincing, Dom. My knowledge of the situation's not as deep
as yours and Mark's. Just now wondering if the partitions in any places of
the world since WWI have been workable and helpful to the folk partitioned
from one another, and usually, I think, from so many folk who are
culturally/languagely closest to them. Was there an alternative in these
instances? Did the people partitioned have any opp to voice their opinions
with authority? Could that have been effected in those instant cases?
Best, Judy
2009/1/20 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> "Right to exist" is a red herring, as is - in its own way - the
"how many
> states?" question.
>
> One of the things I admired about Peter Hallward's recent letter to
the
> Guardian about the Gaza offensive was its statement that "Israel must
lose"
> - not merely "Israel must not succeed". The difference is the
> acknowledgement that Israel does indeed have something to lose, and must
be
> made to accept that loss. A corollary is that Israel must be made to
> separate the question of its own existence (the persistence of its
identity)
> from that of the loss that it faces. Israel must be made to recognise that
> it can lose and still exist; its government and military must cease to act
> as if its very existence depends on never losing. This requires
creativity,
> acceptance of risk; the invention of a new way of being in the truth.
>
> Dominic
>
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