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clip - Since “targeted” murders are illegal, one would expect outcry. One would expect it, but it never comes. Again, compare “targeted assassinations” of the resistance when they are simply going about their business in their own land versus “targeted assassinations” of illegal settlers in the West Bank undoubtedly carrying out war crimes. Or, actually compare the response, especially on the liberal left: hand-wringing about the barbarity of one set of killings, quietude about another (and the silence amidst the killing of shepherds<http://tildeingaza.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/drie-palestijnse-landbouwers-gedood-na-afvuren-vanaf-israelische-tank/>in northern Gaza, too). Look at the ziggurat of racist institutions, practices, and mindsets that contribute to erasing one death while blaring about the other on White House lawns, op-ed pages, and even the progressive press, and wonder: what is the point of contributing to that cacophony, while remaining noticeably mute when Israel takes out the people struggling in whatever benighted, ineffectual, palsied way they can for Palestinian freedom? full -- <http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4400> <http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4400> http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4400 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
