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See Chomsky on the role of the prophet - like Isaiah - then and now:<br>
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<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style>"The word
'prophet' is
a very bad translation of an obscure Hebrew word, navi. Nobody knows
what it means. But today they'd be called dissident intellectuals.
They were giving geopolitical analysis, arguing that the acts of the
rulers were going to destroy society. And they condemned the acts of
evil kings. They called for justice and mercy to orphans and widows
and so on.<br>
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"I don't want to say it was all beautiful. Dissident
intellectuals aren't all beautiful. You read Sakharov, who is
sometimes appalling. Or Solzhenitsyn. And the nivi'im were treated
the way dissident intellectuals always are. They weren't praised.
They weren't honored. They were imprisoned like Jeremiah. They were
driven into the desert. They were hated. Now at the time, there were
intellectuals, 'prophets,' who were very well treated. They were the
flatterers of the court. Centuries later, they were called 'false
prophets.'
<p>"People who criticize power in the Jewish community are
regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. You've got
to
serve power. You can't argue that the policies that Israel is
following are going to lead to its destruction, which I thought
then
and still do... </p>
<p>"I particularly admired [Amos'] comments that he's not an
intellectual ...' I'm not a prophet, I'm not the son of a prophet,
I'm a simple shepherd.' So he translated 'prophet' correctly. He's
saying, 'I'm not an intellectual.' He was a simple farmer and he
wanted just to tell the truth. I admire that."</p>
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On 7/5/11 8:50 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E13BF78.5000801@pigs.ag" type="cite">"We will
not be silent."
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It is a very interesting and ironic
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if not fortunate choice of words.
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"For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
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for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still,
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till her vindication shines forth like the dawning,
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and her victory like the flame of the Lord."
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- Isaiah 62.1 (Talbot's rendering)
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On 07/06/11 7:44, Robert Naiman wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I now have a bag of shirts. Some US boat
to Gaza, some "We will not be
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silent," in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Karen
Medina<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com"><kmedina67@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Yes, bring tee-shirts.
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AWARE can sell some, though tee-shirts don't sell very well
from our table.
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It is more likely that members of AWARE would want to buy one.
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I will take one.
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ISO and SJP members might also.
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-karen medina
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Robert Naiman
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org"><naiman@justforeignpolicy.org></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I have the opportunity to bring a
bunch of US Boat to Gaza t-shirts to
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Urbana. How many should I try to bring? The idea would be to
sell them
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on a sliding scale, $10-$20, as a fundraiser for the US boat
campaign.
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Robert Naiman
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Policy Director
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Just Foreign Policy
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