The Zionist consensus has been breeched in recent weeks as far as the ideological control system in the United States is concerned. For a lifetime the United States has been completely uncritical of anything and everything Israeli. That carte blanch era has ended.
While the Goldstone report has been largely diverted by the Zionist lobby it remains a stunning exposure of the real Israel with its endless reports of civilian slaughter by a religiously motivated army. Somehow the one hundred to one casualty rates in favor of the Israelis has finally started to penetrate into public consciousness.
The apparent murder of a Hamas official in Dubai by the Israeli apartheid state has blown up in the face of Mossad and the Israeli regime. Now Mossad agents and Livni face charges for crimes in various jurisdictions. The era of Israeli impunity is rapidly ending.
While the old line Zionists are playing their same old games and gathering for a reactionary counteroffensive they are actually quite clueless. The era when everyone in the United States is totally for anything Israeli or Zionist is over.
Even more significant is that this change in public policy has been won through the essentially nonviolent and democratic struggle of hundreds of thousands of activists in more than forty lands. Progressive internationalism is possible and the effort to guarantee the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of a colonial settler state could be just the beginning of changing the situation for all oppressed peoples, leading them from oppression to liberation.
Of course the hard core imperialists and subimperialists may or may not like this change. On the one hand Israel may threaten world peace more than any other nation, precisely because it is a strategic nuclear power with a strongly independent government. So the United States, as the recent statement by General Petraeus suggests, is probably in conflict with Israeli maximalists, those who seek to obliterate Palestinian rule anywhere. Of course this is and has been the Israeli policy to somehow dispose of the unwanted non-Jewish population so what does the United States have to do with that kind of apartheid really?
In recent years a strong Zionist movement has sought to place the United States in violent confrontation with the Muslim world. It is a bad idea that has partially succeeded with the wars in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Of course this Zionism may be more based in the United States than Israel for all I know.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
GAZA FREEDOM MARCH AND VIVA PALESTINA BREAK THRU THE PROPAGANDA WALL
Despite the crackdown against democratic international activists by the Egyptian and Israeli tyrannies the amazing Zionist influence over the United States and Great Britain is beginning to show cracks, serious ones.
For decades the plight of the Palestinians has been hidden and or represented as the "problem of terrorism", one of the great falsifications of history embraced by too many Americans and Israelis alike.
In one of the classic cases of "blaming the victim" the United States Zionist polity and the Israeli settler-state alike have claimed that the only problem with the Middle East is the people who live there! Because the "land without a people", according to the Zionist godfathers, had a people, the Palestinians!
It reminds me of a statement by a terror bomber, a United States Air Force pilot who visited my High School during the Vietnam Holocaust. He was personable and happy to pose as a hero. He got tremendous applause because he was, of course, protecting us from evil communist peasants in the rice paddies of Vietnam! He said something I will never forget, "Vietnam is a beautiful country. The only thing wrong with it is the Vietnamese living there." So there you have it, America then and America now.
Of course, this terrible attitude by the so-called hero was offensive to me and others. It is the same attitude the Zionists have towards the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims. Look at Mayor Koch's recent comments about hundreds of millions of Muslims wanting to blow themselves up to kill us!
Fortunately the fortress of imperial and colonial lies is collapsing. With so many people able to see the horrible, concentration camp-like treatment of the Palestinians already the jig is up, the story is out and getting out. Thousands of now banned visitors are back in their home countries telling the story about how Israel is murdering the Palestinians and all the other horrors.
It will be harder and harder for those who previously have been sitting back and cultivating their self-righteous "ignorance". It is no longer wrong or unthinkable to call a Zionist a criminal when they commit crimes. Zionist propagandist in the United States used to have absolute and complete immunity from dissent or criticism but with them starving and sieging the Palestinians their criminality is more blatantly clear each and every day.
Educate the ignorant! Expose the Zionists in our nation, the United States of America.
Boycott Israel!
Disinvest in Israeli Businesses!
Sanction Israel!
Break the Siege of Palestine!
For decades the plight of the Palestinians has been hidden and or represented as the "problem of terrorism", one of the great falsifications of history embraced by too many Americans and Israelis alike.
In one of the classic cases of "blaming the victim" the United States Zionist polity and the Israeli settler-state alike have claimed that the only problem with the Middle East is the people who live there! Because the "land without a people", according to the Zionist godfathers, had a people, the Palestinians!
It reminds me of a statement by a terror bomber, a United States Air Force pilot who visited my High School during the Vietnam Holocaust. He was personable and happy to pose as a hero. He got tremendous applause because he was, of course, protecting us from evil communist peasants in the rice paddies of Vietnam! He said something I will never forget, "Vietnam is a beautiful country. The only thing wrong with it is the Vietnamese living there." So there you have it, America then and America now.
Of course, this terrible attitude by the so-called hero was offensive to me and others. It is the same attitude the Zionists have towards the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims. Look at Mayor Koch's recent comments about hundreds of millions of Muslims wanting to blow themselves up to kill us!
Fortunately the fortress of imperial and colonial lies is collapsing. With so many people able to see the horrible, concentration camp-like treatment of the Palestinians already the jig is up, the story is out and getting out. Thousands of now banned visitors are back in their home countries telling the story about how Israel is murdering the Palestinians and all the other horrors.
It will be harder and harder for those who previously have been sitting back and cultivating their self-righteous "ignorance". It is no longer wrong or unthinkable to call a Zionist a criminal when they commit crimes. Zionist propagandist in the United States used to have absolute and complete immunity from dissent or criticism but with them starving and sieging the Palestinians their criminality is more blatantly clear each and every day.
Educate the ignorant! Expose the Zionists in our nation, the United States of America.
Boycott Israel!
Disinvest in Israeli Businesses!
Sanction Israel!
Break the Siege of Palestine!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
HISTORIC PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT GROWS DESPITE ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN REPRESSION
A few years ago the worldwide solidarity movement with the Palestinian people was relatively small. Recently more than three organizations simultaneously sought to break the siege of Palestine as Israel, Egypt and other nations sought to give the Palestinian Solidarity activists a hard time, the run around, arrest and virtual house arrest, beatings and so on and so forth.
The way Jordan, Israel, and Egypt have frustrated the humanitarian and human rights efforts by thousands of Palestine solidarity activists is documented every day by half a dozen or more organizations such as Viva Palestina, the Gaza Freedom March and Code Pink.
Of course some insist that no one complain about Egyptian sabotage of humanitarian efforts. Such fools also insist that human rights activists assent to Egypt building an impenetrable underground wall in order to prevent the flow of necessities that Egypt and
Israel both block under the steely eyed gaze of their masters in Washington. The PLO's reluctant leader has endorsed Egyptian and Israeli actions, seeking to overthrow Hamas by starving 1.2 million Palestinians and turning away as 1300 were murdered a year ago during Hanukkah of all things.
Of course the Zionists have not noticed the way that the Palestinians are now something akin to the slaves of Egypt in the story of Moses. Yes, the Palestinians have been crying out without a Moses for Israel and the United States to let them be free!
You can cut the cynicism and hypocrisy of the imperialists and Zionists with a chain saw.
To be fair, I think it can be said that American police have been more repressive than the Egyptians have been. This was true in Seattle, the recent political conventions of the twin ruling parties, and the recent g20 meeting. In all of these cases the streets of America have looked more and more like Palestine. We truly are all Palestinians.
Palestinian solidarity activists have discovered to their great dismay that the Egyptian police appear to have a "big brother" presence throughout Egypt.
It is, after all, a military dictatorship. They didn't kill any of the solidarity activists despite what appeared to be a false report by Iranian news services. Almost everyone has been shocked and dismayed to find the Egyptian attitude towards the Palestinians to be so harsh and in alignment with Israeli desires. Many have also discovered that the PLO also seeks to strangle Hamas by putting the rope of siege around the necks of 1.2 million Palestinians.
Zionism and imperialism see in the post-Arafat PLO an appropriate partner, to police the devastation and refugee camp that gets labeled a nation but more like an American reservation for Native Americans.
It does appear that Mubarak wants everyone to know he is a dictator and especially to not let the Egyptian people get any idea that they too should determine their own future by engaging in democratic nonviolent action. At the end of the day all of the tyrants of the Middle East agree that the Palestinians must be condemned lest the populations of such places as Saudi or the Gulf emirates demand democracy themselves and overthrow their Washington blessed dictatorships.
And who can forget that the so-called Islamist revolutionaries grew up in the aftermath of the United States and Israel exterminating virtually all secular progressives in the Arab Middle East. Then Washington dreamed up a jihad that was the whole ideological pretense for the war against the USSR in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was created out of many of these assets but now with Islam used as the reason to attack not the USSR but the USA.
This war by AQ is a peculiar thing and I don't want to comment on that now but does it really add up? Yes, AQ makes war on the United States and others but why? I am quite
skeptical that religious belief is the only thing behind AQ and other "Islamist" groups. They sort of remind me of those revolutions that threw Spain out of South America even though they obviously have an extremely intolerant fundamentalist point of view which is quite strange to most of us in the United States.
Anyway the so called "war on terrorism" has created an atmosphere where it is especially necessary to be resolute and clear thinking
when standing in solidarity with the Palestinians who have been labeled as "terrorists" by Israel and the United States for decades.
Of course the irate citizens of Iran, who have the courage to cry out "death to the tyrant", are encouraged by the United States and the UK to make a revolution in the name of democracy. But the democratic rights of the Palestinians are to be denied for sixty years and they are labeled terrorists if they after decades of quite lobbying and activism finally fight for their national liberation!
Well who are the nuclear terrorists? Certainly not the Palestinians. Only those with nuclear weapons terrorize the rest of us with them? Who is that in the Middle East?
Israel and the United States are the main ones. Somehow that is not a problem! Of course an Arab nuclear weapon would suddenly be cause for the destruction of at least one nation, eh?
Egypt and Israel have great armies but the Palestians are an insignificant military force.
Israel is a strategic nuclear power. They are also persecuting the Palestinians because they can get away with it.
It is especially disconcerting to see the entire world consent to the destruction of the Palestinians.
Still, we must distinguish between the peoples of the world and the governments that rule over them. The peoples of the world want the Palestinians to have full human rights, including the right to return, the right to full compensation and either a place as a citizen in a binational secular state or a truly sovereign contiguous state unhampered and unsupervised by the Israeli apartheid master state.
Whatever the future crimes of Israel or the United States the worldwide anti-apartheid movement is growing at such a rate that Israel is likely to become a secular state in the near future with equal rights for all citizens.
The way Jordan, Israel, and Egypt have frustrated the humanitarian and human rights efforts by thousands of Palestine solidarity activists is documented every day by half a dozen or more organizations such as Viva Palestina, the Gaza Freedom March and Code Pink.
Of course some insist that no one complain about Egyptian sabotage of humanitarian efforts. Such fools also insist that human rights activists assent to Egypt building an impenetrable underground wall in order to prevent the flow of necessities that Egypt and
Israel both block under the steely eyed gaze of their masters in Washington. The PLO's reluctant leader has endorsed Egyptian and Israeli actions, seeking to overthrow Hamas by starving 1.2 million Palestinians and turning away as 1300 were murdered a year ago during Hanukkah of all things.
Of course the Zionists have not noticed the way that the Palestinians are now something akin to the slaves of Egypt in the story of Moses. Yes, the Palestinians have been crying out without a Moses for Israel and the United States to let them be free!
You can cut the cynicism and hypocrisy of the imperialists and Zionists with a chain saw.
To be fair, I think it can be said that American police have been more repressive than the Egyptians have been. This was true in Seattle, the recent political conventions of the twin ruling parties, and the recent g20 meeting. In all of these cases the streets of America have looked more and more like Palestine. We truly are all Palestinians.
Palestinian solidarity activists have discovered to their great dismay that the Egyptian police appear to have a "big brother" presence throughout Egypt.
It is, after all, a military dictatorship. They didn't kill any of the solidarity activists despite what appeared to be a false report by Iranian news services. Almost everyone has been shocked and dismayed to find the Egyptian attitude towards the Palestinians to be so harsh and in alignment with Israeli desires. Many have also discovered that the PLO also seeks to strangle Hamas by putting the rope of siege around the necks of 1.2 million Palestinians.
Zionism and imperialism see in the post-Arafat PLO an appropriate partner, to police the devastation and refugee camp that gets labeled a nation but more like an American reservation for Native Americans.
It does appear that Mubarak wants everyone to know he is a dictator and especially to not let the Egyptian people get any idea that they too should determine their own future by engaging in democratic nonviolent action. At the end of the day all of the tyrants of the Middle East agree that the Palestinians must be condemned lest the populations of such places as Saudi or the Gulf emirates demand democracy themselves and overthrow their Washington blessed dictatorships.
And who can forget that the so-called Islamist revolutionaries grew up in the aftermath of the United States and Israel exterminating virtually all secular progressives in the Arab Middle East. Then Washington dreamed up a jihad that was the whole ideological pretense for the war against the USSR in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was created out of many of these assets but now with Islam used as the reason to attack not the USSR but the USA.
This war by AQ is a peculiar thing and I don't want to comment on that now but does it really add up? Yes, AQ makes war on the United States and others but why? I am quite
skeptical that religious belief is the only thing behind AQ and other "Islamist" groups. They sort of remind me of those revolutions that threw Spain out of South America even though they obviously have an extremely intolerant fundamentalist point of view which is quite strange to most of us in the United States.
Anyway the so called "war on terrorism" has created an atmosphere where it is especially necessary to be resolute and clear thinking
when standing in solidarity with the Palestinians who have been labeled as "terrorists" by Israel and the United States for decades.
Of course the irate citizens of Iran, who have the courage to cry out "death to the tyrant", are encouraged by the United States and the UK to make a revolution in the name of democracy. But the democratic rights of the Palestinians are to be denied for sixty years and they are labeled terrorists if they after decades of quite lobbying and activism finally fight for their national liberation!
Well who are the nuclear terrorists? Certainly not the Palestinians. Only those with nuclear weapons terrorize the rest of us with them? Who is that in the Middle East?
Israel and the United States are the main ones. Somehow that is not a problem! Of course an Arab nuclear weapon would suddenly be cause for the destruction of at least one nation, eh?
Egypt and Israel have great armies but the Palestians are an insignificant military force.
Israel is a strategic nuclear power. They are also persecuting the Palestinians because they can get away with it.
It is especially disconcerting to see the entire world consent to the destruction of the Palestinians.
Still, we must distinguish between the peoples of the world and the governments that rule over them. The peoples of the world want the Palestinians to have full human rights, including the right to return, the right to full compensation and either a place as a citizen in a binational secular state or a truly sovereign contiguous state unhampered and unsupervised by the Israeli apartheid master state.
Whatever the future crimes of Israel or the United States the worldwide anti-apartheid movement is growing at such a rate that Israel is likely to become a secular state in the near future with equal rights for all citizens.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
THE PALESTINIANS ARE THE UNDERDOGS AND THE OPPRESSED, NOT ISRAEL
The Palestinians in Gaza, like the Iraqis before them, are being subjected to a crime against humanity, SIEGE, the starvation and brutal stunting of children, the denial of medical care, denial of potable water, little or no electricity, anything needed to live is denied or reduced below survival levels. So I side with Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinians are the underdogs, they are surrounded by enemies including the Arab puppet states and are being massacred as I write. Anyone who thinks the Israelis are right to do carry out this conquest is a colonialist, a white supremacist, and a fascist. Supporters of Israeli massacres and sieges need not read Hitler to guide their political actions, they already get the main idea, kill anyone whom you want to rip off, scapegoat, or doesn't fit into your "perfect" little society!
[When you think about it the whole Zionist theory behind Israel is a "Lebensraum"- type argument!]
Furthermore, even those of us in the imperialist wonderland, the USA, are having our rights abolished and are fundamentally being denied democratic rule by the same forces destroying Palestine today. Our own nation is now on the same path as Palestine, participation in a capitalist world order imposed by the rich and their criminal system on those of us in the United States and throughout the world. Of course, the Native Americans suffered much like the Palestinians do in our history and our very religious forefathers and foremothers pretty much destroyed four hundred civilizations. There are a few descendants but many civilizations were completely wiped out. Zionist colonialists know this American history and hope to do the same in Palestine. They are very frustrated that anyone notices their crimes. That is why they won't allow any coverage of their genocide.
So if you like the oppressor, Israel, that is your reactionary politics. I don't like it and I think most Americans are starting to see through the smokescreen Israeli colonialists and their American supporters try to put blow in everyone's eyes. Just because you are a Jew or a Christian or a rich person of any belief doesn't give you special rights to violate others either individually or collectively. It doesn't give you a right to starve Palestinians. It doesn't give you the right to take food from Palestinian children. It doesn't give you the right to take away insulin and vital medications from Palestinian families. Being a Jew or a Christian bestows no special rights to harm, murder or expel the Palestinians. Those that say so and call that commitment to injustice their "faith" must be struggled with, exposed for what they are and defeated by the revolutionary working class movement and their allies in every corner of the globe but especially here in the United States.
Israel, as a white settler state formed during the heyday of the anticolonial revolutions of the post WWII era is a bizarre relic of history. Of course, Ian Smith's Rhodesia and the apartheid government of South Africa were overthrown long ago but Israel continues to pretend that it can wipe out the Palestinian people by one means or another. Again, not unlike the Germans who actually oppressed them they wonder why they cannot wipe out just one civilization like in the good old days of the so-called American wild west. Today with the incredible massacre in Gaza conducted by international capital and its Arab and Israeli executioners is not so much a defense of Israel as it is an effort to preserve a Jewish country club nation throughout what is currently Israel and to extend the golf courses into all occupied territories including Gaza and the West Bank.
Anyone who hated the segregated OLD SOUTH in the United States should hate the way Israel is today. Just as we condemned the hundreds of lynchings that used to take place every year, directed at people of color, just as we condemn those lynchings of yesteryear we should condemn this lynching of the Palestinian people today and condemn it every day until the Palestinian people receive their full rights.
Anyone who hated the massacre in Mumbai should hate the massacre of the Palestinians being carried out today by the nation of Israel. Slaughtering at least twice as many civilians as killed in Mumbai, Israel has also attempted to destroy the means of sustenance, including food supply routes, water supplies, and medicines. The people of Mumbai have all those things after their massacre, the Palestinians are denied that by the criminal terrorist state of Israel. I hate that injustice, what about you?
Anyone who hated the Indian killers of American history should hate the Israeli killers of Palestinians today with the same virtuous indignation. Remember the massacre at Wounded Knee? Weren't several hundred native Americans slaughtered by the troops of white settlers seeking so-called "opportunity"?
We must condemn those of any nation, any religion and any culture who seek opportunities by slaughtering hundreds of people and destroying other nations. Israel, born in these sins has yet to repent of its crimes or even cease them but instead continues them hoping to finally expel essentially all of the Palestinians, not just most of them.
[When you think about it the whole Zionist theory behind Israel is a "Lebensraum"- type argument!]
Furthermore, even those of us in the imperialist wonderland, the USA, are having our rights abolished and are fundamentally being denied democratic rule by the same forces destroying Palestine today. Our own nation is now on the same path as Palestine, participation in a capitalist world order imposed by the rich and their criminal system on those of us in the United States and throughout the world. Of course, the Native Americans suffered much like the Palestinians do in our history and our very religious forefathers and foremothers pretty much destroyed four hundred civilizations. There are a few descendants but many civilizations were completely wiped out. Zionist colonialists know this American history and hope to do the same in Palestine. They are very frustrated that anyone notices their crimes. That is why they won't allow any coverage of their genocide.
So if you like the oppressor, Israel, that is your reactionary politics. I don't like it and I think most Americans are starting to see through the smokescreen Israeli colonialists and their American supporters try to put blow in everyone's eyes. Just because you are a Jew or a Christian or a rich person of any belief doesn't give you special rights to violate others either individually or collectively. It doesn't give you a right to starve Palestinians. It doesn't give you the right to take food from Palestinian children. It doesn't give you the right to take away insulin and vital medications from Palestinian families. Being a Jew or a Christian bestows no special rights to harm, murder or expel the Palestinians. Those that say so and call that commitment to injustice their "faith" must be struggled with, exposed for what they are and defeated by the revolutionary working class movement and their allies in every corner of the globe but especially here in the United States.
Israel, as a white settler state formed during the heyday of the anticolonial revolutions of the post WWII era is a bizarre relic of history. Of course, Ian Smith's Rhodesia and the apartheid government of South Africa were overthrown long ago but Israel continues to pretend that it can wipe out the Palestinian people by one means or another. Again, not unlike the Germans who actually oppressed them they wonder why they cannot wipe out just one civilization like in the good old days of the so-called American wild west. Today with the incredible massacre in Gaza conducted by international capital and its Arab and Israeli executioners is not so much a defense of Israel as it is an effort to preserve a Jewish country club nation throughout what is currently Israel and to extend the golf courses into all occupied territories including Gaza and the West Bank.
Anyone who hated the segregated OLD SOUTH in the United States should hate the way Israel is today. Just as we condemned the hundreds of lynchings that used to take place every year, directed at people of color, just as we condemn those lynchings of yesteryear we should condemn this lynching of the Palestinian people today and condemn it every day until the Palestinian people receive their full rights.
Anyone who hated the massacre in Mumbai should hate the massacre of the Palestinians being carried out today by the nation of Israel. Slaughtering at least twice as many civilians as killed in Mumbai, Israel has also attempted to destroy the means of sustenance, including food supply routes, water supplies, and medicines. The people of Mumbai have all those things after their massacre, the Palestinians are denied that by the criminal terrorist state of Israel. I hate that injustice, what about you?
Anyone who hated the Indian killers of American history should hate the Israeli killers of Palestinians today with the same virtuous indignation. Remember the massacre at Wounded Knee? Weren't several hundred native Americans slaughtered by the troops of white settlers seeking so-called "opportunity"?
We must condemn those of any nation, any religion and any culture who seek opportunities by slaughtering hundreds of people and destroying other nations. Israel, born in these sins has yet to repent of its crimes or even cease them but instead continues them hoping to finally expel essentially all of the Palestinians, not just most of them.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
We Are All Part of A Global Humanity
We may be this or that in any number of categories. Categories of race, culture, belief, gender, sex, and so on and so forth. Yet we all bleed, all of us. Turk and Armenian, Palestinian and Israeli settler, Pakistani or Indian, and the same is true across religions and cultures and linguistic groups and so on and so forth. So we are all Palestinians in this universal sense, that we are the same species and the same in so many fundamental ways.
So what do we do with this commonality, with this sameness, with this principle of applying the same rights to all of us, all of our fellow humans? We embrace it with some hope and some zeal.
Who benefits? Those who need it the most the most, but all of us benefit from substantial justice for all.
So what do we do with this commonality, with this sameness, with this principle of applying the same rights to all of us, all of our fellow humans? We embrace it with some hope and some zeal.
Who benefits? Those who need it the most the most, but all of us benefit from substantial justice for all.
Friday, September 5, 2008
PALESTINIANS IN THE STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL MINNESOTA
A few years ago my son wrote a letter to the editor at the school newspaper at Washington University, St. Louis. He titled it, "We all are Palestinians" and I liked the article but I was curious about the title.
I thought he was making a humanistic argument. He also emphasized the privilege of intellectual elites. I think he was saying we have a responsibility, a special responsibility due to that relative privilege.
Looking at the rubber bullets, tazers, pepper spray, percussion grenades and flash bombs being lobbed at thousands of peaceful protesters last week I suddenly came upon another understanding of that pregnant phrase, "We all are Palestinians". I realized that the streets of St. Paul were not entirely unlike those on the West Bank of Palestine/Israel. American citizens are being repressed like Palestinians are repressed at the Republican National Committee.
The kind of brutal repression we see in Israel directed at the Palestinians looks curiously like that taking place on the streets of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the ten percent of the residents of New Orleans who remained during the simultaneous hurricane are subject to a repressive martial law not unlike that imposed on the occupied territories.
We may or may not be Palestinians but we are more and more being brutalized just like they are whenever we step out and try to be citizens. Of course the repression in Palestine is still far worse and far more universally applied.
I thought he was making a humanistic argument. He also emphasized the privilege of intellectual elites. I think he was saying we have a responsibility, a special responsibility due to that relative privilege.
Looking at the rubber bullets, tazers, pepper spray, percussion grenades and flash bombs being lobbed at thousands of peaceful protesters last week I suddenly came upon another understanding of that pregnant phrase, "We all are Palestinians". I realized that the streets of St. Paul were not entirely unlike those on the West Bank of Palestine/Israel. American citizens are being repressed like Palestinians are repressed at the Republican National Committee.
The kind of brutal repression we see in Israel directed at the Palestinians looks curiously like that taking place on the streets of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the ten percent of the residents of New Orleans who remained during the simultaneous hurricane are subject to a repressive martial law not unlike that imposed on the occupied territories.
We may or may not be Palestinians but we are more and more being brutalized just like they are whenever we step out and try to be citizens. Of course the repression in Palestine is still far worse and far more universally applied.
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