Finally, this issue makes it to the LBO mailing list! Yes, on this topic, the silence has been deafening out there.
I am beyond rage. I am in a catatonic stupor of rage, particularly when it seems more and more clear that Sharon is very much set on finishing the job. It's 48 all over again only now there won't be any Palestinians left at all.
PLEASE, if you guys don't know what has been happening, read the history. It's only 100 years old...and most of it only fifty years old...so there's not that much to look at. Look at Choamsky's "Fateful Triangle" look at a fairly new and fascinating book called "Dangerous Liasons"...there's some terrific stuff out there and this story and its denoument will come to haunt us all. (The US IS neck deep in this mess.)
Joanna Bujes
At 07:44 PM 07/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>This fills me with rage. This mural was shut down by the cowardly actions
>of Zionist terrorists. That is what they are. American leftists are
>principally responsible for providing the political conditions that allow
>this to happen, due to their overwhelming silence on the question of
>Zionism, Israel and - above all - US sponsorship of both, without which
>none of this would be happening.
>
>Every American leftist who votes for the Democratic Party, every leftist
>who does not actively make this issue their #1 priority in international
>solidarity, every political person who prattles on about "leftwing
>antiSemitism", and anyone - such as Max Sawhisky (I know it's misspelled!)
>here on this list, whose apology I still await (ordinarily I'd let it
>slide, but the reality of Zionism and Israel won't let it drop,
>unfortunately), who attempt to slander political opponents as antisemitic
>(I call it reverse-Jew-baiting, since the logical operation is identical to
>Red- or Jew-baiting) in order to silence discussion of Zionism - are all
>indirectly complicit in the crime. They are all complicit in this
>vandalism, complicit in the bulldozing of houses, complicit in the murder
>of children, and in the administration of collective punishment.