Re: [Marxism] Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground operation

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:05:27 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote:

quoting Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents


> The operation's goals, as defined by the cabinet, are "creating a  
> different long-term security situation in the south, while bolstering  
> Israel's deterrence." The IDF does not interpret this to mean a  
> complete end to the rocket fire, as it considers this impossible.  
> Rather, its goal is to eliminate Hamas' desire to attack Israel. 

  This is really ridiculous. 

  Do they really believe that by applying cruel treatment to a living human 
being, one can eliminate the humiliated one to beat back? Do they really 
think that people can be reduced to a submissive existence crawling on earth 
on their knees, happy to receive once in a while a crumb from the massa's 
table? 

  For about eight decades now the colonial settler society is pounding the 
Palestinian Arabs, driving them from their land and out of their homes, killing 
and maiming hundreds and thousands; first as the auxiliary police to the 
colonial power, since six decades now as a colonial racist regime in their own 
right. 

  In 1923, the right wing Zionist Vladimir Yabotinsky wrote about the "Iran 
Wall" which had to confront the Arab Palestinians, and force them into 
submission, and he believed this would be possible. 

  "A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now 
or in the future.  If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already 
living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or 
benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else-or else, give 
up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically 
impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is 
impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!... Zionism is a 
colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of 
armed force. It is important... to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even 
more important to be able to shoot - or else I am through with playing at 
colonizing."

  And still, 75 years later, the Arab Palestinians have still not resigned to 
an 
existence of second class citizens. Nor have the Irish after 300 years of 
British rule and intervention. 

  What a foolish misconception of the role of violence in human relations. 


Cheers, 
L.W. 

Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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