[lbo-talk] Re: we are all hezbollah

J cogprole2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 25 08:37:24 PDT 2006


On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:42 AM, doug wrote:


> Shouldn't a slogan 1) make sense, and 2) bear some positive relation
> to your principles? On 1), I'm not Hezbollah, because Israel isn't
> trying to attack me, or any Americans (though Israel's actions, paid
> for by the US, make it more likely that some ally of Hezbollah will
> try to attack me, a resident of a very Jewish neighborhood in a large
> American city) and 2) by saying you are Hezbollah, you are, however
> temporarily or expediently, performing an identification with the
> organization's broader goals or ideological imperatives. If you're
> not performing that identification, then you're not Hezbollah. Are we
> supposed to make some forced choice between Hez and the Irgun?

you are all making too much of this. it *could* just mean you identify with some aspect of the struggle. i don't understand the yuck. i can find no fault with hezb here.

~J



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