Comments on: Memo From the Wretched: Enough About Nonviolence

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:15:29 +0000

Ronnie, you see the British response to non-violent protest at Amritsar, on April 13, 1919, just as you saw it at the beginning of the al-Aqsa intifada, where even Israeli Arabs were targeted for massacre. The essence of racism is contempt for the untermenschen, and nowhere on earth is this plainer than in Israel.

By: Noisy Tappet

Noisy Tappet — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:53:08 +0000

No MEBOSA, the Zionists pay the election costs. US and EU taxpayers are then forced to pay for the war.

By: MEBOSA RITCHIE

MEBOSA RITCHIE — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:32:15 +0000

sorry the above last line should have read

i thought the arabs have more money than a few zionists or am i wrong

By: MEBOSA RITCHIE

MEBOSA RITCHIE — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:30:42 +0000

thank you noisy
so it would appear that a few zionists can pay for the entire foreign policy of the USA and the UK.
i the arabs have more money than a few zionists or am i wrong

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:35:27 +0000

The success of a nonviolent struggle depends on the ethical level of your oponents. Ghandi could nonviolently oppose the then-moral British Army (turned later into a bunch of torturers and murderers in Iraq and Afghanistan). Had he been facing the Wehrmarcht or the Tsahal, he’d been crushed to a pulp.

By: Noisy Tappet

Noisy Tappet — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:26:09 +0000

MEBOSA, why do senior US politicians (and their UK shadows) repeatedly swear undying allegiance and cast-iron support for such a vile, racist entity like Israel, whose leaders would be locked up if they plied their trade anywhere else?

Filthy lucre does the trick, dear boy, especially at election time.

By: MEBOSA RITCHIE

MEBOSA RITCHIE — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:51:40 +0000

US state terror working to Zionist orders

a quote from mugla—mugla,please explain to me,a gollum,whatever that is,why the most powerful state in the world,population 330 million etc should take orders from a bunch of zionists,numbering 10 million at most
i am sure there are good reasons but you will have to tell me what they are

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:03:53 +0000

Sure jon s, let’s reflect on the deaths caused by terrorism, but let’s do it every day, not just on one day that suits your supremacist agenda. Aside from the near certainty that 9/11 was a ‘black flag’ provocation, even assuming that it was Arab terrorists that caused these 3,000 deaths, when will you pause to reflect on the millions of Moslems and others killed by Western state terrorism? When will you find the time to commemorate the thousands killed in the Nakbah of 1947-8, murdered by Judaic terror gangs in order to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population? On what date will you remember the thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians killed by Judaic terrorism emanating from Israel, from 1968 to the present day? What date will be most appropriate to pay our respects to the millions of Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Somalis and Iranians slaughtered by US state terror working to Zionist orders? In fact I think 9/11 might be the most inappropriate day imaginable to ‘reflect and remember’ the victims of terror, unless you see some victims as more worthy than others, based on their race, religion or nationality. I suspect that that is your personal position-please advise me if I am incorrect.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:30:32 +0000

I assume that would be the millions of victims of the USUKIsNATO wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Palestine and in all the other places where their vile and revolting acts of war have taken place.

By: jon s

jon s — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:51:52 +0000

Today, being September 11, let us all reflect and remember the victims of terror.
If Israel’s actions can be condemned if unjustified, so can acts carried out in the name of the Palestinians, and if they -or anyone – use terror , deliberately targetting innocent civilians, they should be condemned.

By: Dick Reilly

Dick Reilly — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:49:27 +0000

Like it or not, support for a one state solution is alive and well and growing in popularity – both inside occupied Palestine and abroad. — in large part because the material conditions have changed since the Oslo Accords. Accelerated settlement expansion, land confiscation and the creation of a Vichy puppet regime subservient to the US and Israel making the “two state” option increasingly untenable. The growing international recognition of the apartheid character of the Israeli state itself, both inside the 1948 territories and in the West Bank and Gaza underscores this reality daily — despite the liberal discomfort with this frame. As for dictating forms of struggle to the Palestinians living under occupation – they and they alone have the right to determine what course to take. The distinguishing feature of the First Intifada ( and I was there as well until being expelled ) was never its’ “non-violent” character, but the level of popular self organization and mass participation in varied forms of resistance. – including tossing pavement stones at the occupier.

By: B99

B99 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:35:33 +0000

Shabnam – ALL countries in the region – and beyond – now accept an Israel within pre-’67 borders – so do Hamas and Fatah. Israel is a member of the UN and is now almost 62 years old.

There will be no ONE state for ALL in my lifetime or yours. Best the Palestinians can expect – and the best outcome those who support Palestine should work for – is a state of Palestine in the 22% that remains of historical Palestine. That’s how the Jews did it – they accepted Palestine piecemeal and eventually over ran the rest of it. Palestinians too, can ‘over run’ the rest of it demographically but it will take time.

The one-state-solution is and has been for some time – dead in the water.

By: Shabnam

Shabnam — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:10:59 +0000

Neither India nor China in addition to ALL STATES IN THE REGION
INCLUDING GREECE, TURKEY AND IRAN did not vote for the partition of Palestine to erect a terrorist and racist apartheid state.
There is no solution except one palestinian state for ALL. No country in the region will accept a phony ‘jewish state.’ Israel has
no right to exist.

By: KL5

KL5 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:18:51 +0000

Qassam “rockets” haven ‘t helped Palestinians, since firing rockets is a terrorist activity, where in western distorted judgement there is no Israeli terrorism . Neither would a Palestinian Gandhi help, since he would have to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Did Gandhi recognize the right of the government of her Majesty to rule India for an indefinite period?
The Palestinian misery can only be solved in Washington, nowhere else. This means the Palestinians are waiting for the return of the the Messiah, which is pretty soon !

By: kalidas

kalidas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:20:23 +0000

Imagine how the Russians must feel about the morphing demoniacs.

By: bozhidar balkas vancouver

bozhidar balkas vancouver — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:00:45 +0000

I have stated many times that it is morally and obligatory for an occupied people to resist its occupation by any means.
However, pal’n resitance had not, unlike partisan resistance, won back an inch of their territory.

armed resistance or not, pal’ns left to own devices, cannot prevent utter destruction of expalestine.
For that is, i educe, intention of the christo-talmudic ad hoc alliance. Even some arab lands are now cooperating with that alliance. Russia and china have own indians and pal’ns to deal with and may wish that pal’ns go away: east, south, or west of expalestine.tnx

By: mary

mary — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:45:42 +0000

Another 500 settler homes are being built in E Jerusalem in addition to the 450 in the West Bank announced last week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8246434.stm

By: dino

dino — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:36:48 +0000

I think that if Palestinians would choice an other way instead that of resistance, today whole Palestine would be occupied and all the Palestinians expelled..Israelis people understand only power and they say this openly.They say often times that without Intifada 1+2 even the “peace process”would not exist.But i’m surprised about what is written on Finkelstein.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:26:31 +0000

This article appears to lump Finkelstein together with those liberals who oppose violent Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. Finkelstein is mentioned here with regard to his positions on criticism of Zionism, right of return and binationalism. On the issue violent Palestinian resistance Finkelstein is unequivocal in his defense of the right of Palestinians to violently resist their occupation and displacement by Israel, and that nobody else has any right to tell them to not exercise this right.

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:17:38 +0000

Well as far as I could see, all these grotesque hypocrites demanding that the Palestinians abjure violence and patiently endure the Herrenvolks’ boots grinding into their faces, forever, are Jews. This must be a branch of the famous ‘Jewish sense of humour’. I think the real Zionist attitude to Ghandi is deep hatred, as he refused to endorse the establishment of Israel, because it was based on stealing another people’s land. Perhaps a sign of this contempt was the insulting nickname ‘Ghandi’ given to the arch-racist Israeli bigot Rehevam Ze’evi, as near to the living antithesis of Ghandiji as it is possible to imagine. These sorts of calls are just a particularly cynically vicious form of hatemongering and obscuring the facts, that the vastly greater proportion of the violence is committed by the Judaic racist invaders, and the violence of Palestinian resistance, is, if regretable, entirely justifiable as the lesser evil.