[lbo-talk] Has the Left Gone Mad?

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 5 07:36:21 PDT 2006


On 8/5/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote: 1) The Palestinians have a long history of non-violent marches and demonstrations in the occupied territories

As y'all probably know Zunes is a pro-Palestinian scholar. Two chapters in his edited collection on non-violence detail non-violent resistence in the Occupied territories. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1577180763&id=rlIH-NQbFQgC&printsec=toc&dq=Stephen+Zunes

Note Matthew Lyons has a chapter as well.

Nonviolent Social Movements A Geographical Perspective

Edited by: STEPHEN ZUNES (University of San Francisco), SARAH BETH ASHER (University of San Francisco) and Lester Kurtz (University of Texas at Austin) http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=1577180763

This comment in his FPIF commentary http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3412 on Hezbollah, "The United States alleges as one of its stronger cases that Hezbollah was involved in two major bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina: the Israeli embassy in 1993 and a Jewish community center in 1994, both resulting in scores of fatalities. Despite longstanding investigations by Argentine officials, including testimony by hundreds of eyewitnesses and two lengthy trials, no convincing evidence emerged that implicated Hezbollah. The more likely suspects are extreme right-wing elements of the Argentine military, which has a notorious history of anti-Semitism, " according to Larry C. Johnson a liberal expert on terrorism who was in Argentina back then, is, "Bullshit, " in the words of an e-mail he sent me in reply to a marxmail posting on the Argentine bombings and Hezbollah.Johnson is comfident Hezbollah did do it, though I didn't ask him if he sawState (Argentine, that is. Iran is widely blamed as well)sponsorship as well.The extreme rightist ideology of the Argentine military is gruesomly related in the memoir of Jacobo Timmerman on his torture.

-- Michael Pugliese



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