[Peace-discuss] [Peace] used on AWARE on the Air Fwd: "pro-Israel" response to Israel Apartheid Week

[David Green]

http://harpers.org/archive/1982/08/the-tedium-twins/
 
 "And now, for another view of Hitler"

"The narcotizing, humorless properties of the “MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” familiar to anyone who has felt fatigue creep over him at 7:40 Eastern time, are crucial to the show. Tedium is of the essence, since the all-but-conscious design of the program is to project vacuous dithering (“And now, for another view of Hitler .?.?.?”) into the mind of the viewer, until he is properly convinced that there is not one answer to “the problem,” but two or even three, and that since two answers are no better than none, he might as well not bother with the problem at all....
 
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:47 PM, ya'aQov <yaaqovz at gmail.com> wrote:
  
Karen, Noah/ISSI, Ahmad Hamdan/SJP, All,
>
>Whether or not IAW misinforms, the wall was built and we live with the
>repercussions of its aftermath.
>We are all members of an academic community;  SJP and ISSI members
>will leave campus at some time.  Until then, we hare have a chance to
>learn with them new tools for analyzing Israel/Palestine, beyond
>standardized propaganda propagated by leaders (Israeli & Palestinian)
>who do not represent us.  Perhaps we can do better of following
>marching orders of leaders who represent themselves, not us.
>
>Noah, the best you can do as a Jew pro-Israel, is to replicate what
>you think marching orders from Jerusalem are?
>Ahmad, the best you can do as a Palestinian, is to replicate what you
>think marching orders from Ramallah/Gaza are?
>
>Are WE asking the right questions? are we developing an independent
>mindset for ourselves? are we doing the needed research?
>
>We are privy to have in our community people like Robert Naiman,
>Niloofar Shambayati, Karen Medina and many more, genuinely invested in
>promoting new ways of acting on behalf of these very issues.
>
>I have become hopeful SJP, perhaps with ISSI, will find an agenda of
>discussions, making use of C-U resources, and invite us to partake.
>We DO have a chance to develop here a blueprint for a new analysis,
>perhaps even a collaboration.
>
>Ya'aqov
>
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>    Hitler? Attila the Hun? Pol Pot? Nixon? John D. Rockefeller? I’m afraid that’s all we have time for tonight. We’ve run out of time. Good night." 
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