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drspock

- 28 Sep 06
- 9:22 pm
I would add to this very fine article that the established Black organizations, especially the "big five" NAACP, SCLS, CORE, Urban League and SNCC, were all being challenged in the 60's by the emergence of the new Black left. These new formations pushed and forced these orgnizations to confront issues that they might have prefered to ignor. This included the various Balck nationalist organizations, the revolutionary black nationalists and a host of old Black left formations along with the newer Maoist or Trotskiest leaning formations. While all these groups were small, they were also all vocal and constantly challenged the big …

Posted to Bigger Than Hip Hop
- 31 May 06
- 8:59 am
The United States is so completely identified with the policies of the Israeli government in the eyes of the world that we may as well move to the next logical step and advocate a formal security treaty between the United States and Israel, simular to NATO or SEATO. The proposal is simple--the US would guarantee the safety and security of Israel--which is touted by American and Israeli politicians as thier primary concern, and in exchange Israel would agree to return to approximatly its 1967 boarders. Some exception would of course have to be made for Israeli sovereignty over West Jerusalem, but …

Posted to The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
- 01 Jun 06
- 8:43 am
While I understand the urge of some more ideologically oriented commentors to search for some first principle or ultimate truth about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, that I suggest is a fruitless effort that will lead nowhere except to the pages of some obscure political journal. Practical problems require practical solutions--the one I outlined above simply asks my government to take a position publically on the issue rather than secretly endorsing the original Lukud settlement program without any open debate in Congress or in public forums as to whether that policy is in the interest of the American people …

Posted to The Israel Lobby and its Discontents