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- According to Bricmont, “a minimum level of modesty would help us understand that far from helping a resistance that doesn’t ask us for anything, it is the resistance that helps us. After all, this resistance is far more effective in stalling the US military machine, at least temporarily, than the millions of demonstrators who marched peacefully against the war and unfortunately failed to stop the bombs or the soldiers” of their own nations. But Bricmont makes it clear that he is not in favour of staying at home and “taking up gardening”. “Why is it that the people who criticize our inaction in Rwanda, where around 8.000 people died every day for one hundred days, do not feel responsible for the same number of people dying in Africa every day, throughout the year, due to easily preventable diseases?”. There is a difference between intervention and cooperation, and to change our mentality, it would require more modesty and less arrogance. Our pride leads us to believe that the First World is able to sort out the world’s problems. From this arise dilemmas such as the reigning chaos in Iraq making a withdrawal of occupation troops seem unadvisable. However “it would be much more realistic to admit that we don’t have the solutions to everyone’s problems and consequently, the best we can do is to stay out of their affairs”. Therefore, the recommendable option would be “peaceful cooperation, non-interference, respect for national sovereignty and conflict resolution through the mediation of the United Nations”.
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WATCH: Palestinian youth abducted by police in E. Jerusalem
- when there are no big headlines in the news about confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians, one should assume the mundane atrocities of daily occupation are taking place, in what is a very asymmetrical conflict.
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After Tunisia and Egypt: Palestinian Neoliberalism at the Cross-roads
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Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part VII: Abul-Magd)
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Pope Shenouda III considers divorce and second marriage proposals following protests
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78DwWv66MX4
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LRB · Adam Shatz · Is Palestine Next?
- Mahmoud Darwish was not the only one to note that during the siege of Beirut in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon in an attempt to crush the PLO, tens of thousands of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv but the Arabs were too busy watching the World Cup Final to take to the streets.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Interesting reads: nationalism, left, neoliberalism, Roundtable on Post-Mubarak and more
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