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there's no particular reason to waste time debating questions on zionist grounds as if that ideology had a role to play in justifying israeli colonialism in fact---in the justificatory narratives of the settlers there's little doubt that variants of kahane-style eretz israel ideology continue to operate and to rationalize the daily brutalization of the palestinian people---and it's no surprise that the settlers find themselves on the extreme right in israel--what the far right in israel and the united states is an affection for loopy nationalism rooted in mythology substituted for history and reality and little hesitation in drawing racist conclusions from the substitution (look around at the teapartiers today in the states...great humanitarians that they are)...one difference between the us and israel at the moment is that the government in israel relies on the support of the ultra-right to hold itself together.
so they've announced this morning that the construction in east jerusalem that was at the origin of this brouhaha can start at any time. of course, it might not start---such is the two-faced game that netanyahu has to play to appease the far right and the us at the same time.
but fact is that kahane-style ideology has no legal standing. the settlements are illegal. they are an obstacle to peace. every last one of them should be taken down.
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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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