[lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 10:09:50 PDT 2006


On 8/2/06, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:


> CB: So it's ok for you to criticize Israel, too. There can be _broad_ left
> unity on this.

Criticisms, sure I'm full of them. Ethno-religious nationalism of any kind is revolting.

But, 90% of those here posting on Israel and Palestine are adherents of the line that Israel is, "a shitty little country, " 'nuff said. Practices and reactionary ideological/religious positions, more than apparent in the Israeli political culture, escape notice from Arab states. And, for you esp. I would think that the extreme repression of Communists by Arab states would be troubling. No secret I prefer Socialists and social democrats (the S.I. has many Arab members, Walid Jumblatt has said many sharp things of late, for example) vs. Communists but, they have played a mostly honorable role in the region since the 20's.

-- Michael Pugliese



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