I see your point, but weren't Al-Qaeda's attacks on 9/11 already proof of the point you made? My other question is what the denominational affiliation of the Holy Jihad brigades are.
Best, Joel
On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> I said a while ago to Joel:
>
> On 8/4/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/4/06, Joel Schalit <managingeditor at tikkun.org> wrote:
>> > This was posted to Michael Lerner's Current Thinking blog this
>> morning
>> > on the Tikkun site - its by one of our contributing editors, Mark
>> > LeVine. Timing is hilarious, especially with Yoshie's forwarding
>> of the
>> > Cecilia Lukas piece.
>> >
>> > Joel
>> >
>> > Has the Left Gone Mad?
>> > By Mark LeVine
>> <snip>
>> > The situation was worse a year later, when Italian peace activists
>> > Simona Toretta and Simona Pari, whose brave commitment to non-
>> violence
>> > and grass roots peace building I saw firsthand during my time in
>> Iraq,
>> > were kidnapped by insurgents. At the very moment they were being
>> > threatened with beheading
>>
>> With Hizbullah and its likes, Western leftists can cultivate contact
>> and try to listen to and talk to them if we wish. Noam Chomsky,
>> As'ad
>> AbuKhalil, etc. have met Hasan Nasrallah. In contrast, you cannot
>> try
>> to meet and reason with sectarian jihadists of an apocalyptic
>> tendency
>> who, with Washington, have made Iraq FUBAR -- you'd be lucky if you
>> went to Iraq now and didn't get kidnapped and beheaded by them.
>>
>> If the Tel Aviv-Washington axis succeeds in defeating or weakening
>> Hizbullah, Hamas, Iran, etc., the Islamist Right, backed by Saudi
>> money, will step into the vacuum, recruiting more angry Arab and
>> Muslim youths into its sectarian jihads not just in the Middle East
>> but all over the world. Hard as it may be for you to believe, it is
>> Hizbullah, et al. who stand between us and apocalypse.
>
> Now, it looks like we are about to reap what the Tel Aviv-Washington
> axis has sown in Palestine, too, not just in Iraq, precisely in the
> fashion that I feared we would:
>
> <blockquote><http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/
> 0,,1856960,00.html>
> Fox News hostage video released
>
> · Unknown Gaza militants call for release of Muslims
> · Men appear healthy as weekend deadline looms
>
> Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
> Thursday August 24, 2006
> The Guardian
>
> A previously unknown militant group in Gaza said yesterday it was
> holding two kidnapped Fox News journalists and demanded that the US
> release "Muslim prisoners" within 72 hours.
>
> The Holy Jihad Brigades released a video showing Steve Centanni, an
> American, and his cameraman, Olaf Wiig, from New Zealand. During the
> 90-second video they appeared unhurt and said they were in "fairly
> good condition". They asked their families to apply political pressure
> to secure their release.
>
> It was the first time anyone had claimed responsibility for the
> kidnapping nine days ago. The two men were seized outside the offices
> of the Palestinian security services in Gaza City. The incident
> surprised the Palestinian authorities, who said they did not know who
> was behind the operation.
>
> The kidnappers issued a two-page statement with their demands. "We are
> going to exchange the Muslim female and male prisoners in American
> jails in return for the prisoners that we have. We are going to give
> you 72 hours, beginning midnight tonight, to take your decision," it
> said.
>
> The group did not say what would happen to the two journalists if the
> US did not meet the Saturday deadline. "If you implement and meet our
> condition, we will fulfil our promise. If not, wait, and we are going
> to wait with you," it said.
>
> Although foreign aid workers and journalists have been kidnapped
> during a rise in lawlessness in Gaza over the past few months, this
> incident is more troubling because it has lasted so long. The video
> released yesterday had uncomfortable echoes of the many videos
> produced by kidnappers in Iraq. The kidnappers' statement was filled
> with rhetoric and religious quotations, a change from the usual terse
> ones issued by Palestinian militants.</blockquote>
> --
> Yoshie
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