Re: The left hand of Sharon (was: Re: [Marxism] No right of return [the case ...

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In a message dated 4/21/2004 1:40:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
LouPaulsen@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Since, however, Marx warned us not to pay so much attention to what people
call themselves and how they characterize their own activity, and to focus
rather on the actual role they are playing and the actual class interests
they represent, I think that we have to go a little bit further than
self-proclaimed nomenclature.
Ok, Leo, I took a look at your response; the racist implication of which is
that Palestinians who spent two years negotiating with Beilin and other
Israelis are dupes who do not understand their own interests, and are far better
served by suicide bombing apologists like Stainsby; the anti-Palestinian
stereotype implicit in all this being that all Palestinians lack the cognitive 
skills
necessary for sophisticated activities like negotiating and are better suited
for suicides and bomb throwings. (to which you and Stainsby consign them
because it shores up your own distorted sense of revolutionary virtue.)

Every time another bomb kills another Israeli civilian, Sharon's left and
right hands are strenghtened.  Every suicide bomber is Sharon's ideological
victory and legitimation. Suicide bombers are what got Sharon elected.

Non-violent Palestinians who sit down at a negotiating table with Israelis
are far more threatening to Sharon than suicide bombers are.

Marion
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