[Peace-discuss] [Peace] News from Neptune for 14 March 2014

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Rabbi B. Rosen's advocacy for BDS was uninformed, fake leftist posturing,
as D. Green's is. Rosen had an epiphany during Operation Cast Lead; that
didn't improve his accuracy and analytical prowess.

Possibly the best analyses of BDS is N.
Chomsky's<http://mostlykosher.blogspot.com/2011/09/noam-chomsky-on-bds-not-what-you-expect.html>
 and N. Finkelstein's<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/finkelstein-renews-attack-bds-cult-calls-palestinians-who-pursue-their-rights>

Again and again, people pretending to speak on behalf of Palestinian people
have NOT spoken with Palestinian people, and fail on representing them.
 Neither are they representing Israel's opposition to their government's
policies, nor are they attempting to collaborate with Israelis opposing the
occupation.  Rabbi Rosen qas a good example for that: he mentioned friends
in the Israeli opposition to he occupation, yet he never attempted to align
his Jewish Voice for Peace with them.

Protesting and bringing an end to the military occupation in the West Bank
and Gaza will not be accomplished by uninformed, fake posturing, and fake
representations.


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:25 PM, C. G. Estabrook
<carl at newsfromneptune.com>wrote:

> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6MQiZk3CI0>.
>
> A "Counterpuncher" edition
> Produced and directed by Caleb Seripinas
> on Urbana Public Television
>
> The new number o the New Left Review (January February 2014) contains an
> article by its quondam editor Perry Anderson on the life and career of the
> late Alexander Cockburn, simply best political journalist in America in the
> era of the coming of neoliberalism (and a major influence on our program).
> An excerpt:
>
> From the start, long before Clinton was elected, Alexander foresaw what
> the governor of Arkansas, mired in state-level malfeasance and connexions
> to the Contra programme, would mean as a ruler of the country: Walmart jobs
> for the many and Marc Rich pardons for the few. Within five months of the
> new Presidency he was writing: ‘The Clinton administration is over. Oh, it
> will drag on in a thickening twilight of new beginnings and fresh
> tomorrows’, under a ruler whose language bespoke his vision: ‘Clinton’s
> sloppy, tired phrases limp through the reality of America like an obese
> Sunday jogger waddling down the road.’ Of his claim to diplomatic fame,
> Alexander, abandoning mockery, wrote in words that are no less implacably
> actual today:
>
> "It would take the pen of Swift to evoke the nauseating scenes of
> hypocrisy, bad faith and self-delusion on the White House lawn today [13
> September 1993], crammed as it was with people who for long years were
> complicit in the butchery and torture of Palestinians and the denial of
> their rights, now applauding the ‘symbolic handshake’ that in fact ratified
> further negation of those same rights. In the shadow of an American
> President with the poise and verbiage of the manager of a McDonald’s
> franchise, Arafat produced oratory so meagre it made Rabin sound like
> Cicero.
>
> "Right now, Palestinians get the right to manage the world’s largest
> prison, the Gaza Strip, plus one cow town. It’s as though the Irish in 1921
> got Tralee plus a few acres in West Cork, with the British holding the
> entire eastern half, Belfast, Dublin, Waterford, plus all the resources,
> with its army free to roam at will across the Irish enclaves, themselves
> fragmented by British highways and drained of water. There will be no
> Palestinian sovereignty and an economy completely subordinated to Israel’s."
>
> ###
>
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