RE: Re: Re: RE: Under Andalusian skies

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

michael pugliese wrote:

>    Doug, of coarse, the primary contradiction as mao would have
> said is Rightist Zionist Militaristic repression of the just
> aspirations of the Palestinian people. That said, I've been amazed
> even in my semi-cynical middle age to find more than a few progressives
> that invest such misplaced hopes in the corrupt leadership of
> the Palestinain Authority and are not conversant with the political
> cultures of too many of the Arab nationalist regimes that repress
> their own leftist movements with such ferocity that would make
> a Sharon or Netanyahoooo proud. Michael Pugliese--- Original

I agree that there are many awful Arab regimes, and that the
Palestinian Authority's leadership has been dismal. But it seems to
me that there are better moments than now to make those points,
especially since you can open the NY Times every morning and see them
made with painful frequency. And given the way Zionists invoke the
Holocaust to deflect any criticism of Israel, why play that game when
the rubble of Jenin has barely settled?

Doug