tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771563516536608026.post3666874139954529914..comments2024-03-26T23:51:00.971-07:00Comments on Popular Resistance: PoliticiansQumsiyehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12546765130702006218noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771563516536608026.post-81181624220357420262013-10-04T17:41:24.074-07:002013-10-04T17:41:24.074-07:00Let me suggest again, more clearly and more public...Let me suggest again, more clearly and more publicly, that your greatest gift to offer the Palestinian cause (of human equality) is your years of living in New Haven, CT, etc. "The belly of the beast". You know how US racism functions in a way maybe nobody else in Palestine does: at its higher levels, closer to where the strategic decisions are made. What kind of people live up there, what are their relationships with each other, to the ultimate elite, and to the grassroots? In a word, what enables racism to not only linger in the US but, in these last forty years of Israeli hegemony, find a "new birth in freedom" (Lincoln's Second Inaugural) and, then again, in the current twilight-of-the-gods situation where it really does seem Zionism has no place to turn, perhaps a final death?<br />The goal is to ease that transition mercifully and speedily, I think. The more intelligently we try, the better we shall do. You know more than perhaps anybody in Palestine what to expect from the "broker", not just to resist his evil machinations, but to use them and his role itself against Zionism. You want to be a revolutionary? Lenin lived in western Europe for some years. Ho Chi Minh ("father of the nation"--he rebranded himself in good European fashion?) lived in France for some years. Kwame Nkrumah sold fish on the sidewalks of New York City at one point.<br />On the other hand, Jomo Kenyatta learned how to sell out his country by/while pursuing a master's degree in England.chrisrushlauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432949074147807503noreply@blogger.com