Some things to read
1. Helena Cobban: "Israel terrified of Gazans' nonviolent mass actions"
2. Chris Floyd's recent meditation on Woodrow Wilson, whom he doesn't care for so much: "Hundred-Year Hangover: Betrayal and Blindness in the Making of the Modern World"
3.Think Progress:Pentagon pushes for more contractor immunity in Iraq.
4. Scalia fails to see what the big deal is about torture in a bbc interview.
2. Chris Floyd's recent meditation on Woodrow Wilson, whom he doesn't care for so much: "Hundred-Year Hangover: Betrayal and Blindness in the Making of the Modern World"
3.Think Progress:Pentagon pushes for more contractor immunity in Iraq.
4. Scalia fails to see what the big deal is about torture in a bbc interview.
Labels: authoritarianism, history, Israel, journalism, Palestine
posted by Jonathan Versen at 11:34 PM
2 Comments:
If all the nonviolent actions weren't puncuated by violent ones, the problem would be very different.
Welcome David.
I don't know if I believe that things would be that much different. Look at how Israel responds to periodic offers of truces from Hamas by insisting they aren't enough, that Hamas needs to renounce violence and their objection to the state of Israel altogether before they can talk of truces.
This which sounds like a rejection of nonviolence on the part of the Israeli government, at least to me.
A separate, but somewhat related question: is Hamas tactically right if morally wrong in their approach to dealing with Israel? I don't know, and while I wish they would try a unilateral truce, I don't automatically assume it would work.
I also note that the last time I checked, the Israeli government still hadn't provided mapping of the mines they left in Southern Lebanon, and these still kill Lebanese people periodically, mostly children who don't know to avoid them.
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