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Yeah, but would he walk a mile for you?<br>
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On 4/13/11 8:31 AM, David Green wrote:
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> C. G.
Estabrook <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><galliher@illinois.edu></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> David
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Peace
Discuss <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue,
April 12, 2011 11:05:23 PM<br>
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Re: [Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"<br>
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We read your comment (with credit) in the calendar section
of AWARE ON THE AIR tonight. <br>
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On 4/11/11 9:37 PM, David Green wrote:
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<p>But it is about politics. It's about sanitizing the
image of a country that is built on land that was
stolen and ethnically cleansed. It's about a country
that occupies, oppresses, continues to steal land,
and murders in order to do so. It's about a country
that massacres children at will. "Israel week"
cannot possibly be about anything but politics. The
politics of apartheid, racism, and worse. And it's
about a secular politics with a component of
religious fanaticism to do its dirty work in the
settlements and outposts. And its about the politics
of U.S. hegemony in the Middle East and our
government's support for Israeli oppression, and
it's about the top-down politics of Jewish
institutions in this country that have to march in
lockstep in support of Israeli atrocities, including
Hillel, which has decided to exclude Jewish students
who are critical of Israel. And, not least, it's
about the sort of breathtaking cultural stupidity
and insensitivity that deals in camels and tents, as
if the native Bedouin Arabs of Palestine with their
camels and tents have not been forcefully and
violently expelled from their land and their way of
life by the Zionists, ongoing. "Israel week" is
about stupidity, racism, ignorance, and worse
(implicit justifications for violence and murder).
It's about the grossest form of cultural superiority
and disrespect that can be openly and publicly
displayed on this campus. What an embarrassment, and
what a travesty, including for most Jewish students.
And worse. And by the way, this "traditional" food
is Arab food, not Jewish food. It's Jewish
settler-colonialist food--like everything else in
Israel, stolen from the Palestinians.</p>
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