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when i read the article in the guardian that outlined what bush said concerning israel and palestine, i went outside afterwards to see if there was some huge rent in the heavens because i actually agreed with something he said. it didn't matter that what he said was said from a position of abjection, that it was preceded by olmert's refusal to even slow down settlement construction, that it is, fundamentally, a joke. then i began thinking that it is an index of just how fucked up things are that the only time politician address the fundamental problem of occupation and colonization and routinzed brutalization of the palestinian people is at points where they have no credibility. the same kind of context that spawned the oslo accords.
israel must stop building settlements.
they must end the occupation.
there must be a coherent, viable palestine.
these seem to me self-evident.
it is also self-evident that george w bush can and will do nothing to further any of this.
but who knows: this is an area in which i think it reasonable to entertain unreasonable hopes sometimes, and one unreasonable hope is that maybe cowboy george could actually affect some change on his way into the crapper of history.
i just wouldn't advise you to hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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