Free Palestine
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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…
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Time seems to have sped up, and there is so much to process that this writer more practised in ancient grudge is once again working away in the glare of the news-screen. In recent days we have seen, of course, the continuing genocide in Palestine committed by extremists robed in the gentility that settler colonists…
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VII If it is wrong for Hamas to kill civilians, then it must also be wrong for Israel to do so, particularly since Israel is—we are told—a State, whereas Hamas is not. But many leaders accept that Israel can murder multiples of the numbers of its own dead, brown lives being so cheap. This, clearly, is to…
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IV What does it mean to say you support or condemn a particular action, the way that Palestinians and their defenders are asked to condemn Hamas? Anyone wishing to defend the rights of Palestinians to exist, and certainly to exist in their own homeland, is expected to start off with a condemnation of Hamas. This is a…
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I The reader will surely accept that Macdara was once a young man characterised by anger and a wild impatience with the idiocy of others. Now one means by which he was able to control this emotion was by refusing to engage with reporting on apartheid in Palestine; specifically, with the insult that the Settler State…