On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> "[I]t now looks as though—fingers crossed—a critical mass of Palestinians
> may, at last, be getting the point. When they blow people up, they
> manufacture panic and hatred, and lock themselves up. They forfeit the
> initiative. When they act en masse with what Gandhi called satyagraha, soul
> force, they seize the initiative. If the Palestinian national movement had
> begun with disciplined nonviolence, it would have achieved statehood by
> now.
> That said, much better late than never."
>
> http://972mag.com/can-nonviolence-move-the-next-century
>
> Anyone failing to understand why this dripping racist condescension is
> entirely baseless might consider reading Mazin Qumsiyeh's Popular
> Resistance
> in Palestine. But in the meantime, or in lieu of that, please avoid any
> attempts to feign expertise on the topic.
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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