vlog. SPDF Day 18: I am on Death Fast in protest of YOU...

vlog. SPDF Day 18:  I am on Death Fast in protest of YOU. (If the shoe does not fit, don't wear it.)

Until several days ago I had two primary targets for this death fast, and one secondary target.  The two primary targets were the activists associated with freeing Palestine, the so called activists, and other people of goodwill.  And that was number one.  Number two was congressman John Lewis as the only representative in the house or the senate that I think has enough conscience buried within him to be awakened and to take a leadership position for Palestine.  As I've said often I have no illusions that I'll make any difference beyond a saving the life of one Palestinian within the next 20 years by trading my life for theirs.  I remain certain that that will be achieved.

But I can have goals beyond that and I just stated that the two groups that I've been targeting this death fast at.

As a third individual in whom I had some hope of also rising to playing a major moral role, actually beyond hope, I was near certain of it.  Pr. Obama.  If the article that I re-published today on this blog by Peter Beinart is at all correct, and tragically, I'm fairly certain that it is, then I am finally seeing that today's president Obama is an enemy of mine, an enemy of Palestine, an enemy of humanity.  If Beinart's article is correct then the Obama of administrations response to Netanyahu's handing them license to force a solution on a silver platter, is to reject that platter in favor of further pandering to the Zionist elites.  It is horrifying.  It makes today a darker day than several days ago, or ever before, for me.  It makes today darker than when  Netanyahu was here.  But that's the way it appears now.

Prior to seeing this in addition to john Lewis I perceived that president Obama was the other, the single other person in Washington, whose moral stature and latant humanity and conscience needed to be my target, and the target of all of us, to inspire them to levels of heroic and courageous leadership.

Whereas I may have some little hope in John Lewis, there is no prayer for Palestine, zero, nada, nothing... without a privileged-white activism of the courage, recklessness, selflessness that maybe has only ever been seen before among the handful of whites that risked, and in some cases lost, their lives in the civil rights movement.  Though I've not spent time studying this specifically, I believe it is true that almost never in history has a population that is not the immediate victim, as these white people were not the immediate victim, almost never do such people willingly, aggressively, put their own lives at risk.  But in the sixties, from privileged, northern, and also southern whites, we saw exactly that.

Unless that reappears in huge numbers the Palestinians are lost.  Maybe the next slaughter in Gaza that everyone is expecting within the next year and 1/2 will only be the size of the last one.  Anyone who is honest realizes that it may be many many fold more.  Netanyahu and his minions are insane but they are not stupid.  They have gambled all along that the faster they exterminated, the faster they destroyed the rights of Palestinians, the more likely they were to get away with it.  And nothing has transpired on the U.S. or international stage that should change their view of that.

For me, keeping or losing my own life is just way way way way way down the list from taking even the most minuscule chance a staving off this next slaughter and bringing a just peace to the Palestinian people.  And that means that you, the American left, are our only hope, you catatonic, way in denial, liberals, you  do it if it's convenient and safe, popular, funded... Free Palestine activists.  You are the ones that have at least a cognitive understanding of the situation which means that you are the population that could mobilize the most quickly.

My death fast is for you.  It is to show you the direction of how to Free Palestine.  In the next 50 years BDS would not bring justice to Palestine.  It can play a minor role, the same way the army can play a role in a military conflict.  But without the special forces, without the Marines, going in first and putting their lives at the greatest risk, there really is no purpose for the army.  It is my understanding that this is fundamental military theory.

Similarly without the whites and blacks putting their lives on the line to show, to prove, to establish... the worth of black lives and black freedom all the other more timid, more cowardly, less aggressive activism would still be going on today with no significant results.

So this death fast is for you.  I don't expect you to notice.  I expect you to dismiss it, disparage it, distort it so it is not a threat to you, and cannot impact your heart.  But that's on you, that's not on me.  Me playing my part is on me, and by god, unless and until the situation changes, I will carry it through with all the joy and passion that I've ever had.