Instructive to hear about the formidable resources of AIPAC - terrifying. Where does the funding come from? But alas, J Street has arrived too late. Too little to late. A two state solution is now out of the question. So does J Street merely represent the 'soft power' means to similar outcomes? Namely, permanent subjugation of the Palestinian people. People like Malley, Siegman and Burg are smart cookies. Surely they must stand for something more than endless linguistic blather that merely diverts attention while the ethnic cleansing of the Occupied Territories continues unrelentingly.
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Pappe is NOT radical. He is down to earth and sensible. He is your conventional next door neighbour academic with the leather patched jacket. He just happens to be a conscientious scholar and ethically principled. The fact that he had to clear out from Israel is a reflection not on his stance but on that of his opponents, dedicated to proving that Black is White, or alternatively (as for Benny Morris), Black is Black but we have to carry on as if it's White of necessity.
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COnfer Samuel Yellen's American Labor Struggles, published in 1936 and republished by Pathfinder in 1974. This book has been indispensable for my teaching on anti-labor bastardry in the US since the year dot. Brilliant quotes from the horses' mouths.
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Quoting from Yellen's American Labor Struggles, Ch.VII (Bloody Ludlow). Backdrop: 1913. Ludlow as company town, quasi-serfdom, with the company controlling effectively the entire state apparatus. J.D. Rockefeller Jr 'who through ownership of 40% of the stocks and bonds controlled the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co ... had not for the ten years preceding the strike visited Coloraod or attended a directors' meeting.' 'The strikers maintained that five of their seven demands merely called for the enforcement of existing state mining laws which were steadily disregarded by the companies.' But the crucial demand on which the battle was fought was over recognition …
Posted to Had you ever heard of the Ludlow Massacre before David Sirota wrote about it in his column this week
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re ar656: 'The people most critical of Israel are, generally, ethnic Jews. The people most un-critically supporting Israel are, generally, Christian fundamentalists. ' That may be true but Israel's criminality is fundamentally dependent upon 'diaspora' Jewish communities (financial, lobbying, propaganda, etc.). re oldlefty - the pressure for change within Israel is not centred from 'the left', which is essentially compromised and complicit, but from disparate groups and individuals whose broader politics is not uniform.
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