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From an interview with a former U.S special forces green beret

Zambia's 'black mountains'

 by Atalia Omer

The writer and activist of the Israeli pacifist left  David Grossman on the war in Gaza: "Now, with immense pain and a broken heart, I must acknowledge what is happening before my eyes — a genocide."

Shahid Bolsen   Yanis Varoufakis   Jeffrey Sachs John Mearsheimer   Walid Khalidi in 2009 Noam Chomsky in 2009 Noam Chomsky in 2006 or 2008 James Baldwin in 1979

"The image of the Gaza child consumed by hunger casts a harsh light on the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Netanyahu government. It has triggered global awareness. A first step toward ending Israel's impunity?" I think not. Israel has been / will be defeated politically, but sooner or later, there will be an end to the 'war', a new Israeli government and the 'Israeli state' will be salvaged by internal and external powers. Any Palestinain state will be a non-viable state depended on some Western powers, even without US approval, and on Israel and the Arab regimes. 

Resistance doesn’t follow electoral cycles or await the results of public opinion polls. Those who resist occupation do not ask whether their defiance is “appropriate” or “palatable”. That question itself reflects a deep ethical confusion — one that equates a subjugated people with the very power that oppresses them .

“Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories .”

 We often have difficulty discerning truth not because we have no desire for truth, but because there are desires other than the desire to know. These include the desires for prestige, power, material possessions, and material comfort. Such desires can prevent us from discerning that truth which lies behind and beyond individual and collective interest. —Charles McKelvey, Beyond Ethnocentrism, 1991