I'm currently part of the ISM. It's a group that does work with the international social justice movement(s), ala the anti-globalisation movement. We bring in Internationals from all over the world to try and prevent the atrocities attibutable to the IOF. Go to www.ism-vanocuver.org , if you are interested.
If you choose not to go to witness, this is your choice. But I challenge you to go and see the Israeli army first hand. Shooting kids going outside during an illegal curfew. Committing the most outrageous land grabs for Jews only, mostly rich, racist Europeans. These settlers are stealing land, backed by your money, right now. Let me make that clearer: You once stood for, almost alone in a surrounding whirlwind of reaction, truth and justice and the ultimately beautiful (indeed, nothing is greater in importance) resistance to imperialism, both it's hegemonic domination of our minds and their outright military colonisation of the Yugoslav people. For this reason, your continued descent has me distressed, but you are now on the exact opposite side of the fence you once proudly ripped down with your "piercing a fog of lies", instead you opt to become a cloud maker and errect higher barriers than the Zionists Apartheid Wall that is stealing farmers livilihoods in the West Bank. There may come a day soon where I too, choose to spend my time, working in among the Palestinian people, using non-violence but never forsaking their rights to armed resistance against the most insidious of all European colonisation mechanisms: That of the superior race, defined as such by the laws of their constitutions and the over-whelming power of a colonising force. I beg you to change your legacy and to see with whom you stand. I beg you to realise that all of this grotesque apologia is doing far more harm than good to the safety of Jewish people everywhere. I see this here. Nazis are coming back, and they are playing off Zionism the way Trotskyism needs Stalinism. They are racist, anti-Palestinian to the core, they are anti-human. They need the atrocities of Zionism to make them mainstream. You provide cover with your tortured prose on the subject of the PA and your whitewash of the Zionists. The Palestinians I work with not only repudiate the Nazis, they go out of their way to fight the ones who appear in our streets. It's the Zionists who create them and then appeal to the Bourgeois state here for "tougher hate crimes laws", meanwhile they collect funds for a racist, illegal and ultimately genocidal occupation. The Palestinian struggle is the most profoundly anti-imperialist struggle today, Zionism is the most profoundly racist state policy in existence today. It is now illegal to challenge the "Jewish character" of the state, even for the too-tiny to matter Arab parties, some of whom are now banned for the first time. It is a Zionist coloniser who spends time ranting about the Palestinians' corrupt leadership. I've got news for you. This Intifada is primarily a non-violent affair of a whole society in protest, unless children with stones have become terrorist to your increasingly narrow field vision. The PA are simply no longer relevant to the Palestinian people. The Intifada is despite the PA. The Intifada is a response to humiliation, it is led by those who want to sweep away not only the occupation, but the corruption, sell-outs and betrayals of the PA. It is democratic in character in a form you cannot understand: against the Zionists, against the PA and for national salvation. It is the most profoundly democratic essence in the world to resist both imperialism and small scale corruption. I'm not interested in reading a pro-Zionist describe the PA. It's a non-issue at best, a distraction from the murderous brutality of the Apartheid occupation daily. Shame on you. It is the extreme racism and power and theft of the West Bank of this occupation that increasingly drives the Palestinian Youth into the arms of the dead-end street of the Islamic groups, who try to make it so the Israeli population knows a similar suffering to that suffered by Palestine. They fail, no matter how indiscriminately they kill, no matter what market or how crowded, because the Israeli Occupation Force has massacred nearly 4-5 times what the Palestinian resistance has killed. What about the Settlements? This is the issue, Jared. What about stealing between 80 and 90% of the water for these racists from Europe? This is the issue Jared. What about cutting off whole villages by way of stealing a farmers adjoining land? This is the issue Jared. What about a curfew in villages where people have to risk certain death from a snipers tower to get a simple bucket of water? This is the issue Jared. What about an occupation that is so totally humiliating, so utterly beneath the treatment of animals, that it begets a certainty that their will never be an end to anti-Semitism masquerading as anti-Zionism? This is the issue Jared. This is the issue for all Jewish people. The Nazi scum are back in Vancouver. They are back in North America. And they have Israeli atrocities for making their hatred become mainstream. Even with American media (nothing to say about Canada) at the pro-Zionist tilt that it is, the world sees. You have done service but now you are a Quisling. Do you know the sting that should carry? I know you do. You are no different than a Djindic-- yet, your betrayal is a global one, for on the front line of resistance to the Empire you have justified and pilloried the most weak in favour of the most wretched, the most powerful and the least defensible, no matter what you ideology, so long as it comes from a desire for truth. Please take the time to cancel all connections I have with Emperor's Clothes, do not send me mail, for I cannot bear to see any more what you have become after you were so great in helping all of us once upon a time. If you are the Emperor, you are not not only naked, you are delighting in cutting yourself a million small cuts. Then you tell us it doesn't hurt. But it sure hurts to watch. Saddened and disappointed with your final betrayal. Macdonald Stainsby ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "...Faisal Husseini, the top PLO official in Jerusalem...[was] quoted as likening the Oslo accords to a 'Trojan horse.'...the weekly Al-Arabi,[28] quotes Husseini as calling the Oslo accords 'just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards something bigger...the liberation of all historical Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea, even if this means that the conflict will last for another thousand years or for many generations.' > > _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international