On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
> Apparently, Doug, James, Chomsky, et al, want Palestinians to fight an
> abstraction called American imperialism rather than resist the
> tangible things that control their everyday existences
Well, no. I was talking about Americans, not Palestinians. I think it's rather odd that Americans can get all excited about BDS'ing Israel when our own country not only makes Israel possible, it commits many horrors on its own. The invasion of Iraq, for example, probably killed more than a million people. I'm reminded of a great post that James Heartfield wrote early in this list's life about how people in imperial metropoles get very excited about denouncing sub-imperialisms - the example that inspired that was China's treatment of Tibet.
Doug