Palestinian strategy

[Micheal Ellis]

>On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Gar Lipow wrote:
>
>> > And if you really think that the Palestinians will get the Israelis to
>> > dismantle the settlements and go back to 67 borders by being nice,
>> > nonviolent, and civilized, you are a fool.
>>
>> Him and Edward Said.
>
>And also Eqbal Ahmad and Noam Chomsky.  In the excellent book of
>interviews that David Barsamian did with him before he died (_Eqbal Ahmad:
>Confronting Empire_. NB: when searching, author=Barsamian), Ahmad
>describes how all three told Arafat to his face several times,
>individually and as a group, insistently and repeatedly, starting in 1968
>and continuing for the next 25 years, that it was his historic mission to
>become a Gandhi, and that any other strategy would be self-defeating.
>

ofcourse all that was quite differnt than what Brad was saying.
Brad was preaching violent subservience........i naturally assumed
he was joking when he suggested he would jack boot thug the
celebrating palestinians. other than that he was just repeating
the basic client state policy.

~M.E.