Why?
Because I entirely stand for Israel?
--- Yves Winter <winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> it seems to me that some "mad bomber" just entered
> your brain...
> yves
>
>
> On 15/04/02 17:33, "Jivko Georgiev" wrote:
>
> > Exactly! Israel has no choice but to resist!To
> those
> > mad bombers and those, who entered the holiest
> place
> > for all christians!
> > --- eldorra mitchell <manynotone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> What we are now seeing is the expression of the
> will
> >> of a people that has no choice but to resist,
> writes
> >> Mahmoud Darwish
> >> This a war for war's sake, since it has no other
> aim
> >> than its self-perpetuation. Everyone knows this;
> >> and,
> >> once again, the sword will prove incapable of
> >> crushing
> >> the spirit. The Arabs have offered Israel a
> >> collective
> >> peace in return for Israeli withdrawal from a
> fifth
> >> of
> >> our historical homeland. Israel's answer to this
> >> generous offer was to declare all-out war against
> >> the
> >> Palestinian people, and against the Arabs' very
> >> imagination. Once again, we will prove that we
> >> occupy
> >> the moral high ground -- nothing remaining to us
> now
> >> but this proof. Those who control the
> international
> >> balance of power will continue to shape events
> >> without
> >> respect for intellectual or legal argument until
> we
> >> awake to the realisation that, just as they have
> >> proved themselves incapable of ensuring
> deterrence
> >> --
> >> though there is no option other than peace --
> they
> >> have also shown themselves incapable of ensuring
> >> peace.
> >> In every corner crimes are being committed. On
> every
> >> street lie the bodies of the murdered. On every
> wall
> >> is blood. The living are deprived of the basic
> right
> >> to life, and the martyrs are denied graves in
> which
> >> to
> >> rest in peace. Above all, however, what we are
> now
> >> seeing is the expression of the will of a people
> >> that
> >> has no choice but to resist. Between one beat of
> a
> >> wounded heart and the next we ask: how long will
> we
> >> carry on cheering as Christ ascends to Golgotha?
> >> Is the Palestinian side all that is left of the
> >> famous
> >> "Arab-Israeli struggle"? Does this account for
> such
> >> neutral incapacity before so lurid a black and
> red
> >> scene? How we fear now that Yasser Arafat's cries
> >> will
> >> be pinned forever to a wooden cross: present
> events
> >> contain enough of the aesthetics of martyrdom to
> >> make
> >> a whole nation's mourning superfluous on an
> endless
> >> Good Friday. Tears purify the soul, cleansing the
> >> body
> >> even as they sting with salt, and tearful
> spectators
> >> now await live coverage of the moment when the
> >> tragic
> >> hero is crowned with an appropriate end, making
> the
> >> tightly wrought elements of the story into myth,
> the
> >> hero ending, as Arafat has put it, "a martyr, a
> >> martyr, a martyr." But no. The Palestinians do
> not
> >> need such feelings of solitude or uniqueness.
> They
> >> do
> >> not need to play the part of sacrificial
> offerings
> >> any
> >> more than they already have done. Palestinians
> want
> >> to
> >> live outside of metaphors, in the place where
> they
> >> were born. They want to liberate their country
> from
> >> the heavy weight of mythology, from the barbarity
> of
> >> occupation and from the mirage of a peace that
> >> promises nothing but destruction. Yet, Israeli
> >> forces,
> >> armed to the teeth with racist superstitions and
> >> military hardware, are besieging the
> Palestinians'
> >> right to live ordinary lives, albeit lives lived
> on
> >> a
> >> margin narrower than dreams, and wider than
> >> nightmares. This right is also under siege from a
> >> world under American control, a world set on the
> >> horns
> >> of a raging bull that has abolished the
> conjunction,
> >> the "and," that used to fall between America and
> >> Israel. The Palestinians are besieged by a
> condition
> >> of dependency that has robbed the Arab political
> >> establishment of the eloquence even to beg, and
> of
> >> the
> >> ability to placate a populace that is angry at
> >> everything. How many times must the Palestinians
> be
> >> besieged before the Arab world realises that it,
> >> too,
> >> is under siege? How many times before it realises
> >> that
> >> it too is a hostage, even though it does not
> resist?
> >> Television has made it unnecessary for us to
> explain
> >> ourselves: now our blood is shed in every home
> and
> >> is
> >> on every conscience. From this day on, he who
> does
> >> not
> >> become Palestinian in his heart will never
> >> understand
> >> his true moral identity. This is not only because
> >> the
> >> unfashionable values that lay hidden beneath
> daily
> >> talk of a "peace process" empty of justice and
> >> freedom
> >> have now been brought back to life. It is also
> >> because
> >> the will has now been liberated from the
> simplistic
> >> calculation of profit and loss and from a
> >> debilitating
> >> intellectual pessimism. This has liberated the
> only
> >> real meaning human existence has: freedom. The
> >> Palestinians have no other choice. In the face of
> >> the
> >> political genocide being offered by the American-
> >> funded Israeli occupation of their land, they
> offer
> >> their steadfast resistance no matter what the
> cost.
> >> Backs against the wall, their eyes fixed upon
> hope,
> >> they show a strength of spirit for which there
> can
> >> be
> >> no facile explanation. Israel's all-out war on
> the
> >> Palestinians has flung the doors wide open to
> every
> >> kind of question. The most important of these is
> the
> >> question of future Arab-Israeli and Arab-American
> >> relations. Israel has been quick to declare that
> >> this
> >> war is a "struggle for Israel's existence" and
> that
> >> the war to found the Israeli state has not been
> >> finished yet. This can only mean that the
> >> elimination
> >> of the Palestinian national movement remains on
> >> Israel's agenda despite the peace process, and
> that
> >> the Palestinians' existence, not the Israelis',
> is
> >> threatened with destruction.
>
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Because I entirely stand for Israel?
--- Yves Winter <winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> it seems to me that some "mad bomber" just entered
> your brain...
> yves
>
>
> On 15/04/02 17:33, "Jivko Georgiev" wrote:
>
> > Exactly! Israel has no choice but to resist!To
> those
> > mad bombers and those, who entered the holiest
> place
> > for all christians!
> > --- eldorra mitchell <manynotone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> What we are now seeing is the expression of the
> will
> >> of a people that has no choice but to resist,
> writes
> >> Mahmoud Darwish
> >> This a war for war's sake, since it has no other
> aim
> >> than its self-perpetuation. Everyone knows this;
> >> and,
> >> once again, the sword will prove incapable of
> >> crushing
> >> the spirit. The Arabs have offered Israel a
> >> collective
> >> peace in return for Israeli withdrawal from a
> fifth
> >> of
> >> our historical homeland. Israel's answer to this
> >> generous offer was to declare all-out war against
> >> the
> >> Palestinian people, and against the Arabs' very
> >> imagination. Once again, we will prove that we
> >> occupy
> >> the moral high ground -- nothing remaining to us
> now
> >> but this proof. Those who control the
> international
> >> balance of power will continue to shape events
> >> without
> >> respect for intellectual or legal argument until
> we
> >> awake to the realisation that, just as they have
> >> proved themselves incapable of ensuring
> deterrence
> >> --
> >> though there is no option other than peace --
> they
> >> have also shown themselves incapable of ensuring
> >> peace.
> >> In every corner crimes are being committed. On
> every
> >> street lie the bodies of the murdered. On every
> wall
> >> is blood. The living are deprived of the basic
> right
> >> to life, and the martyrs are denied graves in
> which
> >> to
> >> rest in peace. Above all, however, what we are
> now
> >> seeing is the expression of the will of a people
> >> that
> >> has no choice but to resist. Between one beat of
> a
> >> wounded heart and the next we ask: how long will
> we
> >> carry on cheering as Christ ascends to Golgotha?
> >> Is the Palestinian side all that is left of the
> >> famous
> >> "Arab-Israeli struggle"? Does this account for
> such
> >> neutral incapacity before so lurid a black and
> red
> >> scene? How we fear now that Yasser Arafat's cries
> >> will
> >> be pinned forever to a wooden cross: present
> events
> >> contain enough of the aesthetics of martyrdom to
> >> make
> >> a whole nation's mourning superfluous on an
> endless
> >> Good Friday. Tears purify the soul, cleansing the
> >> body
> >> even as they sting with salt, and tearful
> spectators
> >> now await live coverage of the moment when the
> >> tragic
> >> hero is crowned with an appropriate end, making
> the
> >> tightly wrought elements of the story into myth,
> the
> >> hero ending, as Arafat has put it, "a martyr, a
> >> martyr, a martyr." But no. The Palestinians do
> not
> >> need such feelings of solitude or uniqueness.
> They
> >> do
> >> not need to play the part of sacrificial
> offerings
> >> any
> >> more than they already have done. Palestinians
> want
> >> to
> >> live outside of metaphors, in the place where
> they
> >> were born. They want to liberate their country
> from
> >> the heavy weight of mythology, from the barbarity
> of
> >> occupation and from the mirage of a peace that
> >> promises nothing but destruction. Yet, Israeli
> >> forces,
> >> armed to the teeth with racist superstitions and
> >> military hardware, are besieging the
> Palestinians'
> >> right to live ordinary lives, albeit lives lived
> on
> >> a
> >> margin narrower than dreams, and wider than
> >> nightmares. This right is also under siege from a
> >> world under American control, a world set on the
> >> horns
> >> of a raging bull that has abolished the
> conjunction,
> >> the "and," that used to fall between America and
> >> Israel. The Palestinians are besieged by a
> condition
> >> of dependency that has robbed the Arab political
> >> establishment of the eloquence even to beg, and
> of
> >> the
> >> ability to placate a populace that is angry at
> >> everything. How many times must the Palestinians
> be
> >> besieged before the Arab world realises that it,
> >> too,
> >> is under siege? How many times before it realises
> >> that
> >> it too is a hostage, even though it does not
> resist?
> >> Television has made it unnecessary for us to
> explain
> >> ourselves: now our blood is shed in every home
> and
> >> is
> >> on every conscience. From this day on, he who
> does
> >> not
> >> become Palestinian in his heart will never
> >> understand
> >> his true moral identity. This is not only because
> >> the
> >> unfashionable values that lay hidden beneath
> daily
> >> talk of a "peace process" empty of justice and
> >> freedom
> >> have now been brought back to life. It is also
> >> because
> >> the will has now been liberated from the
> simplistic
> >> calculation of profit and loss and from a
> >> debilitating
> >> intellectual pessimism. This has liberated the
> only
> >> real meaning human existence has: freedom. The
> >> Palestinians have no other choice. In the face of
> >> the
> >> political genocide being offered by the American-
> >> funded Israeli occupation of their land, they
> offer
> >> their steadfast resistance no matter what the
> cost.
> >> Backs against the wall, their eyes fixed upon
> hope,
> >> they show a strength of spirit for which there
> can
> >> be
> >> no facile explanation. Israel's all-out war on
> the
> >> Palestinians has flung the doors wide open to
> every
> >> kind of question. The most important of these is
> the
> >> question of future Arab-Israeli and Arab-American
> >> relations. Israel has been quick to declare that
> >> this
> >> war is a "struggle for Israel's existence" and
> that
> >> the war to found the Israeli state has not been
> >> finished yet. This can only mean that the
> >> elimination
> >> of the Palestinian national movement remains on
> >> Israel's agenda despite the peace process, and
> that
> >> the Palestinians' existence, not the Israelis',
> is
> >> threatened with destruction.
>
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