zionism

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Fri Jul 13 15:45:15 PDT 2001


At 04:26 PM 07/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>At the simplest level, rank and file zionists
>don't know from imperialism. They support a
>homeland. Connected, but with a big difference.

So. OK. I'm a settler. I sit by my swimming pool and watch my kids frolick and I know that 1/2 mile away there are people who are native inhabitants who cannot get water to drink. When I drive to work, on the specially protected highways, whizzing past checkpoints which I know are a daily humiliation to Palestinians ( or worse), I'm probably not thinking about imperialism...I'm just hoping that these cockroaches will scuttle peacefully or just go away.... these "so called Palestinians" (to quote from Haaretz) who are absurdly getting in my way in my homeland. My "homeland" -- where I was probably not born and which would not exist without the direct and continued assistance of the biggest imperial power in the world.

What am I now? Maybe I'm not an imperialist, maybe I'm just a tool in the hands of imperialists. Please say more about the "big difference"

Joanna B



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list