[Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 17:08:05 CDT 2011
Probably only if he thought I was taking him to hook up with a Lucky Strike.
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From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 2:08:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"
Yeah, but would he walk a mile for you?
On 4/13/11 8:31 AM, David Green wrote:
Both I and the camel appreciate that.
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From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 11:05:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"
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>We read your comment (with credit) in the calendar section of AWARE ON THE AIR
>tonight.
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>On 4/11/11 9:37 PM, David Green wrote:
>http://www.dailyillini.com/opinions/columns/2011/04/10/israel-week-brings-opportunity-to-learn-about-country-culture-and-food#comments-title
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>>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.
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