[Peace-discuss] who wants a US Boat to Gaza t-shirt?

[C. G. Estabrook]

See Chomsky on the role of the prophet - like Isaiah - then and now:

"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.

"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.'

"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...

"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."



On 7/5/11 8:50 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
> "We will not be silent."
>
> It is a very interesting and ironic
> if not fortunate choice of words.
>
> "For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
> for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still,
> till her vindication shines forth like the dawning,
> and her victory like the flame of the Lord."
> - Isaiah 62.1 (Talbot's rendering)
>
>
> On 07/06/11 7:44, Robert Naiman wrote:
>> I now have a bag of shirts. Some US boat to Gaza, some "We will not be
>> silent," in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Karen Medina<kmedina67 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Yes, bring tee-shirts.
>>> AWARE can sell some, though tee-shirts don't sell very well from our table.
>>> It is more likely that members of AWARE would want to buy one.
>>>
>>> I will take one.
>>>
>>> ISO and SJP members might also.
>>>
>>> -karen medina
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Robert Naiman
>>> <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>  wrote:
>>>> I have the opportunity to bring a bunch of US Boat to Gaza t-shirts to
>>>> Urbana. How many should I try to bring? The idea would be to sell them
>>>> on a sliding scale, $10-$20, as a fundraiser for the US boat campaign.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Robert Naiman
>>>> Policy Director
>>>> Just Foreign Policy
>>>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> -- karen medina
>>> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
>>>
>>
>>
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