I listened to the Chris Hedges interview with Norman Finkelstein. Indeed Finkelstein does make some important points about the violence that erupts when a people is horribly oppressed. His remarks are helpful and important. But that does not negate the criticism of Hamas which is an organized political entity which has influence on how the justified anger of the Palestinians gets expressed. In the New York Times this morning (October 22, 2023) Netanyahu is quoted as saying to a Likud gathering in 2019: "Those who want to thwart the possibility of a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfer of money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy." There have been other credible analysis of this Zionist support from Hamas from Stephen Zunes, for example. It is clear from this and whole history of imperialist and Zionist attacks against progressive political organizations and trends that the fascists in power in Israel can best fulfill their genocidal goals by holding up as their opposition reactionary, theocratic fascists. They can then claim to the world, "you see, we have no option but to carry out our genocidal policies." Moving to a just peace will require the driving from power the fascist Zionists, the theocratic Zionists, to say nothing of the imperialist monsters, principally the U.S., that stands behind all these second string oppressors.
War is a form of insanity and no one gets out of it with clean hands. Wish the ones who want war had to fight them, could start w my two ny senators, what assholes.
Superb response. There is no way we can organize the working class in America in solidarity with Palestine without acknowledging that the murder of civilians on Oct 7 by Hamas et al. was a horrific crime.
I listened to the Chris Hedges interview with Norman Finkelstein. Indeed Finkelstein does make some important points about the violence that erupts when a people is horribly oppressed. His remarks are helpful and important. But that does not negate the criticism of Hamas which is an organized political entity which has influence on how the justified anger of the Palestinians gets expressed. In the New York Times this morning (October 22, 2023) Netanyahu is quoted as saying to a Likud gathering in 2019: "Those who want to thwart the possibility of a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfer of money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy." There have been other credible analysis of this Zionist support from Hamas from Stephen Zunes, for example. It is clear from this and whole history of imperialist and Zionist attacks against progressive political organizations and trends that the fascists in power in Israel can best fulfill their genocidal goals by holding up as their opposition reactionary, theocratic fascists. They can then claim to the world, "you see, we have no option but to carry out our genocidal policies." Moving to a just peace will require the driving from power the fascist Zionists, the theocratic Zionists, to say nothing of the imperialist monsters, principally the U.S., that stands behind all these second string oppressors.
Wow. Great reflections. Thank you.
War is a form of insanity and no one gets out of it with clean hands. Wish the ones who want war had to fight them, could start w my two ny senators, what assholes.
Superb response. There is no way we can organize the working class in America in solidarity with Palestine without acknowledging that the murder of civilians on Oct 7 by Hamas et al. was a horrific crime.
Great 'comeback ' by Paul Street as usual..