1) There is no reference to the right of return in the publication in question. "Reversing the Nakba" refers to the dissolution of the Israeli state. It's interesting that you play the same card as the dictatorship in Iran... cynically using Israel's crimes to defend the status-quo. 2) You know very well that despite the fact that *The Activist* is a YDS publication it reflects no lines or views other than that of its individual contributors and features debates and contrasting viewpoints. 3) You've contributed nothing relevant to the discussion on the nature of the dependency theory, anti-imperialism, political Islam, the 1979 Revolution, the class character of the protests, Stalinism, or the nature of "bourgeois" democratic rights. All of which were broached in one way or another in the piece. 4) Who has historically been "the enemies of both the Iranians and the Palestinians?" The Islamists? Global capital? You have to be more clear here.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The organization that published the article in question explicitly opposes
> the historic and universally-recognized demands of the Palestinians. There
> are reams to be written about the internal political struggles of the
> Iranians, but I trust you will understand my reluctance to buy the
analysis
> of an organization that has historically sided with the enemies of both
the
> Iranians and Palestinians - much less its determinations about who is, and
> is not, a "friend of the Palestinian people."