Amongst all this 'counter-pinpoint' destruction - as in 'demolish as much as they can' - one account I read of a graveyard, its markers, mowed down by tanks is 'metaphorically' the most diseased. The implication is that 'we' can also re-kill the dead; we can tread over and eliminate the 'heathen' ancestry. If there are any ghosts risen from that graveyard may they journey across the Israel border to perpetually haunt the graveyards and the citizens of that country until there is the arrival of a genuine peace.
As America - no matter how repressed - remains haunted by the massacres of its original tribes.
Stephen V.
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Christopher C Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Christopher C Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inverted commas and such
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 2:53 AM
Stephen, it is late here so I don't have the energy for a longer reply.
The two are very closely aligned. What classically underwrites a
democratic poetics is education. (Plato) Yet it is demonstrated again
and again both education and democracy continually fail each other. What
is happening now in Palestine has been happening since 1949 when British
imperialism with the support of US and Australian imperial forces
partitioned Palestine in the name of a democratic solution and the
creation of the state of Israel. Israel has no right to exist, in the
final analysis. Democracy underwritten by education is no resolution to
the attempted genocide of Arab people which has been going on since
1949. I can have no faith in Clinton or the new US administration since
they again have no resolution. Democracy is a farce with education
holding up the mask that veils democracy from its farcical nature.
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:10 -0800, Stephen Vincent wrote:
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> But to express it here in a constructive way seems crucial. I suspect
> I am not alone in wanting ways to compel this new President - unlike
> Bush - to refuse to condone and support this barbarism in our name.
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