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Re: [Marxism] [French] Les calculs sordides et meurtriers deTel-Aviv



On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:22:11 +0100 (MEZ), Lüko Willms wrote:

> I just saw on Aljazeera (strongly recommended) a three-part debate with
> Mustafa Bargouti, a Betty Hunter from a British solidarity committee with
> Palestine, and a Dan Schaeftan from Tel Aviv or Haifa. The latter was
really
> like the typical arrogant British colonial officer or a copy of Hitler's
> propaganday chief Goebbels, the incarnation of lying.
>
> This Schaeftan declared in essence that Israel alway got away with
> afflicting utmost violence on the Palestinians, and that therefore they will
> continue for eternity to get away with inflicting even more violence,
bombing
> the Palestinian Arabs into submission.

The name is Schueftan, Dan Schueftan. Sometimes re-transscribed from
Hebrew script as Shiftan. His father was from Breslau, then a German city,
today the Polish city of Wroclaw.

Schueftan is the director or deputy director of a "National Securities
Studies
Center" at the University of Haifa and has published several books.

He is like Yabotinsky reborn -- a thoroughbred reactionary. He called for a
military attack on Iran.

Some of his views can be found here:

> <http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9786/index1.html>

There is also a Wikipedia-article on him. Some of the quotes listed there I
could not find in the source to which they were attributed, but they sound
plausible nevertheless.

His stance can be summarised as this: "The Arab Palestinians hate us (the
Jews) for eternity, they want to kill all of us, and we have to look forward to
generations of armed conflict with them, which has to be victorious for us,
and that can only happen with a stated which has a solid Jewish majority."

Which means a state different from what Abraham Lincoln proclaimed after
the US Civil War, i.e. "government of the people, by the people, and for the
people", but a state with a "government of 'my' ethnic group, by 'my' ethnic
group and for 'my' ethnic group."

Germany went thru 12 years like that.


Comradely yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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