----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Balkanization
> It butters no parsnips to define the conflict in terms of the parties
> "hating" each other. Hate is not an independent cause but has its roots
> in material relations.
Every disposition is reducible to a set of physical causes (or so I'm inclined to believe). That doesn't mean that our explanations must always eschew the former in favor of the latter.
> And those material relations are subject to
> analysis independently of the particular attitudes of various
> individuals. There are many in Israel -- in fact the internet is now
> full of the messages of those individuals and groups -- who see the
> interests of Isarel itself to be dependent on justice for the
> Palestinians. And we know from much experience that the "hatred" of the
> oppressed for their oppressors is almost always contingent upon the
> continuation of the oppression.
Actual oppression is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for the continued existence of poisonous ill-will.
-- Luke
>
> Carrol