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It's sort of interesting to read TELawrence's take on the area and it's
people based on observations made almost 100 years ago,<br>
and see how very little the attitude of the players has changed.
Lawrence doesnt speak very well of either the Palestinians or the Jews<br>
but he does make some interesting observations about them. <br>
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<blockquote>On the banks of the Jordan valley lived
bitterly-suspicious colonies of Algerian refugees, facing villages of
Jews. The Jews were of varied sorts. Some, Hebrew scholars of the
traditionalist pattern, had developed a standard and style of living
befitting the country: while the later comers, many of whom were
German-inspired, had introduced strange manners, and strange crops, and
European houses (erected out of charitable funds) into this land of
Palestine, which seemed too small and too poor to repay in kind their
efforts: but the land tolerated them. Galilee did not show the
deep-seated antipathy to its Jewish colonists which was an unlovely
feature of the neighbouring Judea.<br>
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A...section in the latitude of Jerusalem would have begun with
Germans and with German Jews, speaking German or German-Yiddish, more
intractable even than the Jews of the Roman era, unable to endure
contact with others not of their race, some of them farmers, most of
them shopkeepers, the most foreign, uncharitable part of the whole
population of Syria. Around them glowered their enemies, the sullen
Palestine peasants, more stupid than the yeomen of North Syria,
material as the Egyptians, and bankrupt.<br>
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- TE Lawrence, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", chapter LVIII, 1926.<br>
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of this demo I couldn't help thinking how it's like the many scenes
I've seen growing in England of anti-semitic mobs in and before the
war. The Zionists/religious fanatics sound just like Nazis. And they're
Jews. <br>
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I was at the demonstration against the latest genocidal attack on the
Palestinians of Gaza in San Francisco on Friday and we were two groups,
the Zionists on one side of the street outside the embassy and us on
the other. I said to an older retired trade Unionist next to me, a
Jewish man, that a number of the Zionists didn't really look Jewish,
sort of half joking. <i>"They're probably Christian Zionists"</i> he
replied. I forgot about them for a moment. I happened to mentioned as I
saw a youth with a mask covering his face that I tend to not talk to
people that cover their faces. <i>"I'm proud to be on this side"</i>
he said. <br>
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I also chatted with an older woman and asked where her accent was from;
<i>"I'm German"</i> she replied. She was also Jewish and was born in
Danzig but her family fled right before the war. She said that as a
child she was a Zionist. <i>"After Hitler, I really felt that we
needed our own country or we wouldn't survive", </i>she told me, "<i>But
I cannot support what Israel does which is why as a Jew I am here to
protest.</i>" These demos to be honest can only go so far. I've been to
many of them and Israel still does what it does and US capitalism still
arms and endorses this apartheid state. These protests won't stop it. <br>
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It's a disgrace in a way that the leaders of organized Labor don't
organize a blacklisting and refusal to handle any Israeli goods coming
in or US goods going out to the country. But they can't even mobilize
their own members to go on the offensive and in fact support US foreign
policy. Still, with all its limitations, it was still good to be on the
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