<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Nice work. It’s important that it be available. (Louis Proyect has already attacked it.)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 30, 2018, at 10:19 AM, David Green <<a href="mailto:davidgreen50@gmail.com" class="">davidgreen50@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">For the record, I submitted this transcript to both Counterpunch and Mondoweiss prior to sending it to ZNet yesterday, which put it right up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Given the current events in Gaza, perhaps the timing of entering these comments (from earlier this year) into the discussion was problematic; nevertheless, I feel it's important that they be considered.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition, here is my letter to the N-G which was put up this morning:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail-column" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:387.09px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Georgia;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;float:left;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><div class="gmail-div_paddingarticle gmail-split" style="margin:0px;padding:3px"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(154, 61, 61); line-height: 28.16px; font-size: 25.6px; font-weight: 400;" class=""><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal;font-weight:700" class="">Settler-colonialism still taking place </span></div><p class="gmail-abody" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> Just as the settler-colonialist movement in the U.S. extended at least 114 years beyond independence (Wounded Knee), the movement that has promoted 136 years of Jewish/Zionist settlement in Palestine continues to struggle with indigenous Arabs, 70 years after Israel’s independence.</span></p><p class="gmail-abody" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> Israel continues to deploy well-established means of settler-colonialism: expulsion (i.e., ethnic cleansing, including Bedouins within Israel proper, ongoing), occupation, confinement, imprisonment, deprivation and killing.</span></p><p class="gmail-abody" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> Zionism, like other settler-colonialist movements, justifies its actions in terms of historical and religious destiny, civilizational and technological (European) progress, seemingly contradictory persecution by incorrigible European cultures</span><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> (anti-Protestantism, anti-Semitism) and cultural superiority over the indigenous (barbaric, economically undeveloped) population.</span></p><p class="gmail-abody" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> Familiar racist stereotypes of Palestinians, in reference to their indigeneity and ascribed (if updated) characteristics as Arabs and Muslims — backward, stubborn, resistant, irrational, fanatical, hateful, cunning, violent, terrorist — have developed accordingly and continue to flourish, even in the liberal Jewish-American (and local academic, Steven Salaita) context. These stereotypes were wellarticulated, with all avuncular seriousness and sincerity as well as predictable bombast, by Alan Dershowitz in his recent comments on campus.</span></p><p class="gmail-abody" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> For good measure, Dershowitz described Malcolm X, in unqualified terms, as a “criminal and bigot,” thus reassuring the audience</span></p></div></div><div class="gmail-column gmail-last" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:387.09px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Georgia;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;float:left;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><div class="gmail-div_paddingarticle gmail-split" style="margin:0px;padding:3px"><p class="gmail-abody gmail-split" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-split gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> that, history aside, a statue of any slaveowner is tantamount to a school named after an uppity black radical.</span></p><p class="gmail-abody" style="margin:10px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><span class="gmail-Fid_10" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> This background is consistent with Gaza’s past 70 years, in relation to ethnic cleansing, refugees, occupation, dedevelopment, blockade, siege and (since 2005) regular, unprovoked massacres by Israeli forces. These historical precedents should be considered prologue as current events unfold. DAVID GREEN Champaign</span></p></div></div></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:45 AM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">A cogent statement from a prophet without honor in his own country and elsewhere:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/bds-one-state-two-states-tactics-goals-and-resistance/" target="_blank" class="">https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/<wbr class="">bds-one-state-two-states-<wbr class="">tactics-goals-and-resistance/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div></font></span></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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