Re: Antisemism and the Us Left/(Was Zionists & American Blacks)

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Max writes: >I think the fundamental problem here is that we try to fit the ME
into categories that point to some kind of political or ethical solution,
whereas the actual situation admits of no solution without a very
different international political setting.  You can't fix it.<

the late Isaac Deutscher described the situation as follows: it's as if a man (a Jew) jumps out of a burning building to save his life -- and lands on his neighbor (a Palestinian). 

one thing has to give: ethic nationalism should be abolished. I know that ethnic nationalism is justified for oppressed nationalities such as Palestinians, but in the end even such nationalism needs to struggle to abolish the reasons for national oppression -- and thus the basis for its own ideology. 

jim