[Peace-discuss] Help the Palestinians. Go See This Movie

[David Green]

Max Ajl, at the Jewbonics website, has written quite a bit about the "double 
standard" regarding tactics, including recently:

"Since “targeted” murders are illegal, one would expect outcry. One would expect 
it, but it never comes. Again, compare “targeted assas­si­na­tions” of the 
resis­tance when they are simply going about their business in their own land 
versus “targeted assas­si­na­tions” of illegal settlers in the West Bank 
undoubt­edly carrying out war crimes. Or, actually compare the response, 
espe­cially on the liberal left: hand-wringing about the barbarity of one set of 
killings, quietude about another."

http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4400

Also, http://www.maxajl.com/?p=3574

"Calling for non-violence when one is not standing by the non-violent is an 
attempted affirmation of purity, nothing more. Gandhi and King stood on the 
front lines of their efforts, whether or not they were correct (Michael Neumann 
has shown fairly persuasively that as practical matters both King and Gandhi’s 
efforts were failures). They were embedded organically in the social movements 
they sought to influence."


 



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From: E.Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com; Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 11:14:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Help the Palestinians. Go See This Movie

Seriously, Bob, I am quite interested in non-violent action and positively 
detest violent action.
I am repulsed by the notion of violence almost as much as I am by the threat 
thereof.

But, I perceive that the concept of any captive people being freed from an 
occupation by nonviolent
action is ridiculous.

Hey!  Mister Shark!  I'm being nice and non-violent.  Would you like to spit
my leg out now?  I'm going to be late for Oprah if you don't let me go real 
soon.

The only problem with your suggestion (as I see it), Bob, is that it fails to 
take into
account the characteristics of sharks, the theoretical fundamentals of 
communication with sharks, and the characteristics of ostensibly bitable 
appendages, among other things, perhaps...

However, other than that, I am sure that Palestine can be freed quickly and the 
whole world can participate in a historic rewrite of the future - at home, on 
the couch, in front of their TV sets, when this movie comes out on DeeVeeDee.


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> If many Americans see the movie Budrus, about the successful
> nonviolent resistance of Palestinians and Israelis against the route
> of the Israeli "separation barrier" and its confiscation of
> Palestinian land in the West Bank village of Budrus, it could lead to
> concrete changes in U.S. policy that would lead to real improvement in
> the ability of Palestinians in the West Bank to free themselves from
> the occupation by nonviolent action.
> 
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/help-the-palestinians-go_b_780609.html
>l
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