David McReynolds is about as consistent a supporter of the Palestinians as anyone I have run across on the Internet. As a matter of fact, in my own view, his position lacks nuance and balance in the way in which it supports one side -- the Palestinians -- in a god awful mess in which there is more than enough right and wrong on all sides to go around.
It seems that he made himself the object of this bizarre attack because he had the gall to suggest that the Palestinians have made some significant errors in some of the tactics they have used in their struggle. In other words, for some of on this list, anything less than total, uncritical, unthinking and unswerving support for whatever any Palestinian does in the name of the struggle is to be condemned. The only thing one can say about such a view is that it won't tax the brain very hard.
Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 212-98-6869
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --
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