That WSJ article goes on and on but doesn't really detail the true dirty deals that were made in order to paralyze the PLO while Hamas benefited. However, while the imperialists have often criticized the Marxist traditions as taking away too much 'agency' from humans, it's interesting to see how the imperialist ideologues typically take away human agency and explain everything as a 'Frankenstein's monster' theory. Of course few have read the novel, so perhaps they are not aware that the monster morally reprimands and judges his master and father/creator.
So Israel and its supporters would rather kick themselves for helping Hamas to get created than deal with the real problem: a just setlement for the Palestinians displaced and deterritorialized by the creation of a European colonialist Israel, that only that European colonialist state can give (unless the US got a serious leader who said Israel's energy security and military supplies would be in jeopardy without a real settlement of the issue; I'm sure we will see pigs take flight first). You can also see the ambivalence that the Israeli state has with anything religious. On the one hand, they wish to say that Israel's foundation is based on the idea of a unifying Jewish religion. On the other hand, European Jewry had largely become secular and even atheist (I even know atheists who dress up like Hassidim). You can't say a biblical God gives you the land if you don't believe in God. The ruling elite of Israel have the same issues dealing with religious Jews and even religious forms of zionism because if the rulers play up the importance of religion, they can always have it turned back on them for being secularized zionists. The US itself has the same sort of ambivalence about backing religious types in its imperialist schemes. It wants them to be God-fearing puppets who do the US's bidding. And then they are shocked when agency returns to history. CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
