Again I ask WTF does any of this have to do with the sentiment of your original post. Nothing. Go grind your axe somewhere else.
>> > I'm stating the facts as I see them. If you disagree, explain why. In
>> any
>>> case, Arafat has been politically dead for some time, confined to his
>>> battered headquarters for more than two years. Did you do anything to
>>> change that before he fell ill?
>>> --
>> > Yoshie
>>
>>You were not stating any facts, you made no arguments or criticism, just
>>self aggrandizing missives. Listen, you made an immature post. You don't
>>give a shit about whether or not I gave blood to the Palestinian cause at
>>home or abroad. What you care about is grinding your ABB axe...full stop.
>>In this you mimic D. Pipes.
>>
>>Travis
>
> The Palestinian people don't care if we mourn or don't mourn the death of
> Arafat, nor do their conditions improve if we do. What matters is what we
> do here, and in this respect, many activists' absorption into electing
> John Kerry, which rendered a local Palestinian solidarity organization, as
> well as many others nationwide, dormant until recently does make a
> difference. There was no way activists could raise the matter of
> solidarity with Palestinians under the Israeli occupation prominently in
> the course of campaigning for John Kerry. I've posted Naseer Aruri's view
> about the matter here:
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20041025/024555.html>.
>
> The same goes for politics in Israel/Palestine, in which the Labor Party,
> a partner with the Democratic Party, plays the role akin to the Democratic
> Party's in the United States. Cf. Yitzhak Laor, "The Tears of Zion," _New
> Left Review_ 10, July-August 2001.
> --
> Yoshie
>
> * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/>
> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
> * OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/>
> * Calendars of Events in Columbus:
> <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>,
> <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/>
> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/>
> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
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