Free Palestine
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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…
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I Living in the American-led Order, one is encouraged to imagine that there is a hardy group of thoughtful powers, clustered together in NATO, who are opposed by rogue entities abroad such as Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the ragtag gang of proxies and clients that these villains have assembled to goad and…
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A change of tack for today’s post, on this Glorious Twelfth. Your correspondent was struck by a thought in writing one of his letters on Palestine and the injustices visited upon the Palestinian people: that the Jewish people, as a nation, have a natural claim to a nation state, particularly given the two millennia of…
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I While it was clearly the correct thing to do, not to mention a demonstration of a minimal ability to engage in diplomacy, the coordinated recognition by Ireland, Norway and Spain of Palestine came with a large serving of self-importance. Why the need for the leaders of all three cretinous Government Parties to stand side…