[lbo-talk] Stop Playing State (was Palestinian group threatens to kill Hamas leaders)

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Oct 5 19:16:15 PDT 2006


Unfortunately, the only money they get is for playing state.

J.

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> On 10/4/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Barbarism rearing its head the contemporary near east.
>> With tacit U.S., Israeli, and European support, rival
>> warlord factions tear each other to pieces.
>
>
> To put it more precisely, Washington and Tel Aviv want Mahmoud Abbas's
> enforcers to dominate the rest of Fatah, destroy Hamas, and police
> Palestinian society on their behalf.
>
>> Yet another reason why attempts to locate an
>> emancipatory potential in any "national liberation
>> movement" in the year 2006 is just projection and
>> wishful thinking on the part of western leftists.
>
>
> What the Palestinian people have is not a national liberation movement
> but a collection of competing political factions who are playing
> state, like playing house, so to speak. You can't have a state
> without having the power of taxation and a monopoly of violence,
> neither of which the Palestinian Authority has. You can't have a
> state whose revenues solely consist of taxes collected by a state
> hostile to you and foreign aids given by other states, some of which
> are also hostile to you, as the Palestinian Authority's revenues do.
> It's really time for the Palestinians to stop playing state, like
> accumulating government employees. They should just dissolve the
> government and go back to the business of resistance.



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