----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 10:30 PM Subject: Re: placing the palestinian struggle
> Chris Kromm wrote:
>
> >A prominent African-American activist recently said in a talk that "the
> >leading liberation struggle of our time is that of Palestine." Much like
> >South Africa in the 1980s, it should be the focus of progressives in the
> >U.S., so that we can build critical mass -- since we live in the country,
of
> >course, which has the power to shape the outcome of the conflict. (For
those
> >of you who are secretly wondering, the speaker is/was resolutely opposed
to
> >anti-Semitism, and made that point repeatedly, so this wasn't an
anti-Jewish
> >thing.)
> >
> >What do people think of this assessment? And if "yes," what is to be
done?
>
> Kind of hard to rank these things, but isn't the Bush drive for
> imperial war pretty frightening?
>
> Doug
Aren't they part of the same thing? Maybe? There are so many events over the years that seem to be tempting the Arabs to do something incredibly stupid so that "we" can take over. I mean if it's all about control of the oil...........? Carter-damage control?