FW: The anti-imperialism of fools

[pms]

Look I think blowing people up sucks.  And I'm sure if I knew the stories of
people killed the pity would be more visceral.  But what about the time, the
months before the suicide bombing.  The crazy agressive statements by
Israeli military leaders that would show up in the paper, the Palestinian
boys shot through the head, the settlements steadily growing(and who knows
what the water situation might be), not to mention a right-wing crazy
killing the old leader and seeing that leader replaced by the head
right-wing crazy?  Certain elements in Israel were intent on provoking the
Palestinians into a response.  I can't imagine what other response they
thought they'd get.
----- Original Message -----
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: FW: The anti-imperialism of fools


> >At 11:53 AM 6/18/2002 -0400, Doug wrote:
> >>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> >>
> >>>  Nothing fancy, I agree, but at least it does not involve rallying
> >>>behind violent goons and nazi-like thugs using bodies of murdered
> >>>civilians as their stairway to heaven.
> >>
> >>Just checking - who does that?
> >
> >Is not the "struggle for Palestinian liberation" (which includes,
> >inter alia, blowing up school buses) overwhelmingly supported by the
> >members of this list?
> >
> >wojtek
>
> One can struggle for a cause without approving of _all_ the means
> used by _all_ who profess to be struggling for the same cause.
>
> In Palestinian struggles or anything else, leftists, in my opinion,
> should approve of only the means that do not violate laws of warfare.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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>