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roachboy · 01-15-2005, 01:23 PM

maybe if abbas had been in office more than, say, 24 hours, this move of sharon might have seemed reasonable, somehow. sharon does not want a coherent palestinian political entitity with which to "negociate"....this seems but more of the same...what is strange to me, still, is the degree to which sharon's logic is recapitulated as explanation. arafat as "asshat" as THE problem (sharon is of course neutral in this scenario--which is surreal)--the problem is militant groups not the israeli occupation (it is both, dont you think?)---now somehow it seems reasonable to demand that a complex process of refiguring political relations between various groups within palestine be already resolved, 6 days after the election. how exactly is this reasonable?

edit: ran across this after i posted:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...735405,00.html

01-15-2005, 01:23 PM	#26 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	maybe if abbas had been in office more than, say, 24 hours, this move of sharon might have seemed reasonable, somehow. sharon does not want a coherent palestinian political entitity with which to "negociate"....this seems but more of the same...what is strange to me, still, is the degree to which sharon's logic is recapitulated as explanation. arafat as "asshat" as THE problem (sharon is of course neutral in this scenario--which is surreal)--the problem is militant groups not the israeli occupation (it is both, dont you think?)---now somehow it seems reasonable to demand that a complex process of refiguring political relations between various groups within palestine be already resolved, 6 days after the election. how exactly is this reasonable? edit: ran across this after i posted: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...735405,00.html __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 01-15-2005 at 01:31 PM..