Reply With QuoteProblem is, as direct and accurate as it is, none of them will take off the rose-collored glasses and tin-foil helmets long enough to believe it.
Maybe the liberal terrorist sympathizers should read this essay..... (http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2006/...jv10no2a9.html)
An excerpt:
There is a wide gap between the prevalent Western image of the Palestinian movement and its actual self-defined identity. Much of the West imagines the conflict is about a Palestinian wish to create a West Bank-Gaza Strip state, a simple matter of nationalist resistance to foreign occupation. Yet this is not what Palestinian leaders say when they talk to each other, their own public, or the Arab world.
If this outside perception were accurate, the conflict could be quickly and easily solved. Indeed, this would have already happened before the 1948 or after the 1967 wars, when Egypt made peace with Israel in the late 1970s, or during the diplomatic campaign for peace of the 1988-1990 era. The fact that the classical nationalist narrative does not fit here was most thoroughly disproved by the experience of the 1990s' peace process and especially in the way it ended.
In pragmatic terms, Palestinian leaders should be thinking:
We are in a terrible situation and have no state because of our incorrect strategy. Violence, radicalism, and maximalist demands have failed to bring benefits. We must instead try a strategy of compromise, peace, and moderation. Let us accept Israel's existence; get our own state; bring home the refugees to become productive citizens; and focus on economic, social, and cultural development to benefit our people.
Since this seems logical, much of the world simply assumes that such is the Palestinian position.
However, the leadership's real standpoint is:
Our armed struggle is winning. Continue the battle, produce more martyrs, make no concessions, gain international support by projecting an image of moderation, and we will win in the end as Israel collapses or surrenders, no matter how many years are required, lives it costs, or resources must be spent.
Problem is, as direct and accurate as it is, none of them will take off the rose-collored glasses and tin-foil helmets long enough to believe it.
Blown ain't never gonna take the word of anyone named Rubin.......Oh wait, except one of his pallies from the 60's, Jerry Rubin.
Blown ain't never gonna take the word of anyone named Rubin.......Oh wait, except one of his pallies from the 60's, Jerry Rubin.
Who??
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj.../chicago7.html
Chicago 7? Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale....
C'mon man know your "Hippie Hero" linage better.
Of course you may not recognize them anymore since they mostly all sold out to the establishment.....
Jerry Rubin ..... LOL What a reversal. I thought I recalled he was dead.
Jerry Rubin (July 14, 1938 November 28, 1994) was a high-profile American social activist during the 1960s and 1970s.
Rubin then decided to attend Berkeley in 1964 but dropped out to focus on social activism. Jerry's first protest was in Berkeley, protesting the refusal of a local grocer to hire African Americans. Soon Rubin was leading protests of his own.
Rubin organized the VDC (Vietnam Day Committee), led some of the first protests against the war in Vietnam, and was a cofounder of the Yippies (Youth International Party) with Abbie Hoffman, and Pigasus, the pig who would be president. He played an instrumental role in the disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Along with six others (Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, John Froines, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, and Tom Hayden; Bobby Seale was part of the original group but was excluded later), Rubin was put on trial for conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot.
After the Vietnam War ended, Rubin changed his political views and became an entrepreneur and businessman.
In 1994, Rubin jaywalked on Wilshire Boulevard, near UCLA in Los Angeles, California, approximately thirty feet from an intersection. It was a weekday evening and as typical, the street was very busy with three lanes in each direction. A car swerved to miss Rubin and a second car (immediately behind the first car) was not able to avoid Rubin. Rubin was brought to the UCLA Medical Center and died a few days later
As the Vietnam War wound down, Rubin found himself a has-been at 34. Younger members of the political/cultural movement he had helped create treated him as passe, pointing out that, by his own ''don't-trust-anyone-over-30'' edict, he was obsolete. Newspapers increasingly used adjectives such as ''erstwhile'' and ''aging'' to describe him in ''Where is he now?'' stories.
By the '80s, he had decided that what he really wanted to get in touch with was money. He became a Wall Street marketing analyst and venture capitalist, using one of his specialities - hosting weekly ''networking salons'' at New York City's famed disco, Studio 54 - to earn nearly $600,000 one year from people who paid $8 a head to swap business cards.
It was quite a change for someone who once tossed dollar bills from the visitors gallery at the New York Stock Exchange to display contempt for America's economic system. Now, as Rubin chased after dollars as unapologetically as the stock market floor traders had that day, his former ally Hoffman engaged him in a series of ''yippie-versus-yuppie'' debates.
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