Free Palestine
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The representatives of the Liberal Right expect to be judged on their exquisite feelings, not their murderous acts; they expect to be commended exactly for this gap between what they would like to do (nice things), and what they believe they must do (nasty things). It is mark not only of a lack of imagination,…
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What better evidence of the base nature of the Imperialists than the following response to the Foreign Minister, which begins with a rote expression of support for genocide and then wanders into a bizarrely non-commital humanitarianism. This is from a Labour Party politician—like the man she is responding to, she is Black, but is thoroughly…
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The English government belatedly banned less than one in ten weapon shipments to the zionist forces currently engaged in an active and very public genocide, not to mention a campaign of equally public terrorism against a host of other countries in the region. This seems to the present writer to be an emblematic act of…
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They insist on their unformed cognitive abilities, making a show of being stuck in the gap between cause and effect, demonstrating their existence in a continual now in which the past cannot be linked to anything taking place, or anything to be anticipated. So anticolonial violence is described as an explosion of inexplicable hatred and…
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Their unfinished, unfinishable status renders them stupid, lazy, fearful. The best recent example the present writer has come across was a settler whining that the tricolour of the Republic has green and orange on it (representing Catholics and Protestants), but that these colours are separate. Now, as everyone in the country knows, they are separated…
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Of course in Palestine, the settlers are still in the early phase of their aggression and openly admit to their status as invaders. For some settlers there is the ideology of manifest destiny, whereby the land is there for the taking, and they prove by their colonial efforts that they are the ones who deserve…
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Macdara has recently argued that settler colonists are ontologically reduced, and he thinks the point is worth expanding upon. And just as settlers themselves link every trivial detail of their experience to the larger-scale picture, that is, their status as invaders and occupiers, your correspondent will similarly zoom between the small details of everyday life…
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Let us listen in, learn something of Imperialism, since the language allows it. The cleverest people in London discuss the world amongst themselves. Of course I don’t like nationalism, she says, in reference to Scotland; the concept of Britain, England’s drag name, allows her to live as if she is happily of no nation at…
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VI We might feel that Palestine represents something of our past; that in Palestine we see the history of vicious European colonisation repeated in the media era. This is not untrue, but Macdara has been unsettled by the idea that in Palestine we see our future: an overwhelmingly asymmetrical relation between elites and the people.…
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III Macdara will never accept that the massive violence of colonisation can be equalled by any violence perpetrated by an anti-colonial movement. In fact this seems to him to be a matter where clarity may be gained from taking a quantitative approach: compare the victims of any single anti-colonial movement with the numbers of dead…