3.20.2015
Selected by Harvard as one of the greatest expressions of Justice. Quraan: “O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah , even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted”.... article
vlog. SPDF Day 18: If this Death Fast is wrong the Martin Luther King Jr was wrong...
If the death fast is wrong then Martin Luther King Jr. was wrong. If the death fast is wrong then the monks that self immolated inspiring the Kennedys and MLK Jr to levels of consideration and insight and action that they never otherwise would have achieved are wrong. If the death fast is wrong then Malcom X was wrong. If the death fast is wrong then the tens of thousands that marched to what they thought was nears certain death in Tahrir Square were wrong.
If the death fast is wrong, paying the full price of one's life for what one wants, is wrong, then you are wrong. You are wrong because everything of immense value in your life you have paid dearly for, your house, your education, your car, your dearest relationships....
Death fast is nothing more than a concentrated way of paying one's life, and we pay our lives regularly, paying one's life in a concentrated way for something of inestimable value. And if that is wrong then you are wrong. If that is wrong then Jesus of Nazareth is wrong.
If that is right, and you don't, then you are wrong, you are betraying humanity, you are betraying your nieces and nephews, you are betraying seven million Palestinians, you are betraying millions of Palestinian children, you are betraying the United States, and you are betraying all of creation.
And if I flinch, and I have zero inclination of flinching, but if I flinch, then the betrayal is mine. So far the Joy is mine. The joy could be, and must become, yours, too, now.
If the death fast is wrong, paying the full price of one's life for what one wants, is wrong, then you are wrong. You are wrong because everything of immense value in your life you have paid dearly for, your house, your education, your car, your dearest relationships....
Death fast is nothing more than a concentrated way of paying one's life, and we pay our lives regularly, paying one's life in a concentrated way for something of inestimable value. And if that is wrong then you are wrong. If that is wrong then Jesus of Nazareth is wrong.
If that is right, and you don't, then you are wrong, you are betraying humanity, you are betraying your nieces and nephews, you are betraying seven million Palestinians, you are betraying millions of Palestinian children, you are betraying the United States, and you are betraying all of creation.
And if I flinch, and I have zero inclination of flinching, but if I flinch, then the betrayal is mine. So far the Joy is mine. The joy could be, and must become, yours, too, now.
vlog. SPDF Day 18: (Thought experiment). What MIGHT you and others have done in the late 1920’s or early 30’s to prevent Hitler, WWII, the Holocaust?...
vlog. SPDF Day 18: (Thought experiment). What MIGHT you and others have done in the late 1920's or early 1930's to prevent Hitler, WWII, the Holocaust?
Back in the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s what might you have done, you and people like you, differently, that might have prevented Hitler, prevented the extermination of six million eastern Europeans, gypsies, Catholics, and another six million Jews? What might you have done that thereby would have headed off world war two?
The ultimate statement, the ultimate attention getter given the wiring of our nervous systems, is risking one's life for a cause, or giving one's life for a cause. This is inarguable by anyone who is honest.
I'm unaware of activists, so called activists, of that time, that did any such thing. Whte Rose did later, to late; and Dietrich Bonoffer and a few others did, much later, much too late.
Presumably activest wrote memos, had meetings, had more meetings, had talks, wrote books, spoke to their friends.... All those things probably helped. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Tens of millions were slaughtered because no one stopped what was coming about, no one changed the future.
Would making a more heroic, more aggressive, more militant nonviolent attempt have been worth one person's life? Wouldn't that have been worth the lives of 10,000 nonviolent warriors? Of course it would. That is without question.
The question is can you, can I, WILL you or I, become one of those people now? We are at beyond the equivalent of the late 1920s early to mid 1930s Germany. We're on the verge of unstoppable ecocide. We're on the verge of a another, probably much larger slaughter in Palestine, quite possibly a total final genocide. We're on the verge of the extinguishing of United States democracy for many many many generations. There's much more at stake than ever before.
If in this thought experiment you can imagine that in 19 late twenties early 1930s Germany you might have chosen to escalate beyond anything that was done, you need to apply that imagination to today. And you need to do it now. I'll do my part of trying to show us the way, but I can't do your part..
vlog. SPDF Day 18: Is there really no one besides a dearest loved one you would gladly give your life to save...?
vlog. SPDF Day 18: Is there really no one besides a dearest loved one you would gladly give your life to save? Well, then all is lost.
If you would give your life or anyone it would probably be for someone extremely close to you. In our society this is normal, for the last 6000 years this is normal. If normal continues your nieces and nephews, children and grandchildren, have no future other than a living material Hell. I suppose this is unfair. I suppose it is not kind. But it is the fact.
Global warming is destroying earth and the final seconds to stop that are passing as we speak. What American democracy there was is being replaced by some combination of oligarchy, fascism, and the last seconds to stave it off prior to an unstoppable dark ages of innumerable decades or centuries, the seconds left to stave off are passing now.
These are both immensely abstract issues from which we are distracted by a multitrillion dollar economy based on addiction to stuff, and the lies and illusions that go along with that. This is why a freeing Palestine, finding that as I think I would, you too would gladly give your life for any of the seven million Palestinians that have been so tormented for going on 70 years now, this is why this is so instrumental to the first two problems that I mentioned.
The Terrorization of Palestine is the most concrete, most evil, most immense horror facing humanity today. It requires less imagination to see the victims and to find the compassion within ourselves to happily trade our life for even one of theirs. I don't know that such a thing as such mass mobilized compassion has happened before in history in the numbers that this will require. It is not going to happen. But unless it does there is no hope of stopping global warming or global police state.
If that mass heroic mobilization happened for Palestine there is a prayer, because an awakened heart doesn't stop when it has solved the problem at hand. It looks around at the rest of its human family. So in the army that mobilized to free Palestine before the next slaughter would be an army that would subsequently mobilize against those other two problems. There is no other situation that can raise the army.
If not you, who? If you don't become the change, who is going to? No one, is the answer you should find the courage to face.
Is this a sad prospect. I can't speak for you, but for me it is the most joyful prospect. The prospect of giving my life to save even one Palestinian? That's heaven. The much more minuscule, but real prospect, that I could be part of the start of raising the army that could save all future for humankind? Do I find that sad? I feel it is what I was born for. I feel it is what you were born four. My learning and study tells me it is what we're all born for, but we have forgotten, we have been taught to forget by our ultimately sick culture.
If you would give your life or anyone it would probably be for someone extremely close to you. In our society this is normal, for the last 6000 years this is normal. If normal continues your nieces and nephews, children and grandchildren, have no future other than a living material Hell. I suppose this is unfair. I suppose it is not kind. But it is the fact.
Global warming is destroying earth and the final seconds to stop that are passing as we speak. What American democracy there was is being replaced by some combination of oligarchy, fascism, and the last seconds to stave it off prior to an unstoppable dark ages of innumerable decades or centuries, the seconds left to stave off are passing now.
These are both immensely abstract issues from which we are distracted by a multitrillion dollar economy based on addiction to stuff, and the lies and illusions that go along with that. This is why a freeing Palestine, finding that as I think I would, you too would gladly give your life for any of the seven million Palestinians that have been so tormented for going on 70 years now, this is why this is so instrumental to the first two problems that I mentioned.
The Terrorization of Palestine is the most concrete, most evil, most immense horror facing humanity today. It requires less imagination to see the victims and to find the compassion within ourselves to happily trade our life for even one of theirs. I don't know that such a thing as such mass mobilized compassion has happened before in history in the numbers that this will require. It is not going to happen. But unless it does there is no hope of stopping global warming or global police state.
If that mass heroic mobilization happened for Palestine there is a prayer, because an awakened heart doesn't stop when it has solved the problem at hand. It looks around at the rest of its human family. So in the army that mobilized to free Palestine before the next slaughter would be an army that would subsequently mobilize against those other two problems. There is no other situation that can raise the army.
If not you, who? If you don't become the change, who is going to? No one, is the answer you should find the courage to face.
Is this a sad prospect. I can't speak for you, but for me it is the most joyful prospect. The prospect of giving my life to save even one Palestinian? That's heaven. The much more minuscule, but real prospect, that I could be part of the start of raising the army that could save all future for humankind? Do I find that sad? I feel it is what I was born for. I feel it is what you were born four. My learning and study tells me it is what we're all born for, but we have forgotten, we have been taught to forget by our ultimately sick culture.
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.
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.
SPDF Day 18: Miko Peled - "More than the threat of war on Iran, Netanyahu’s re-election is a call for war on Palestinians everywhere....
More than the threat of war on Iran, Netanyahu’s re-election is a call
for war on Palestinians everywhere. It is a call for war on human rights
and international law. It is a mandate for the Israeli government to
murder Palestinians. It gives Netanyahu license to continue Israel's
seven-decade policy of racism and apartheid towards the people from whom
they stole the land. It is also a call for people of conscience to
impose boycotts and sanctions to divest and to isolation Israel. No more
business as usual - it is time for outrage, for action, the type of
action that brought down apartheid in South Africa. It is a call to
finally allow Palestinians to have their country back.
vlog. SPDIF day 17: this death fast is for everyone I know and everyone I do not know. This death fast is against everyone I know, and everyone I don't know. (If the shoe does not fit, don't wear it.)
This death fast is for everyone I know , and for every one I do not know, born and to be born in the future. I experience all of these as part of me. I experienced all of these as part of my family. That's just how it is with me.
And this death fast is a protest against everyone I know , and everyone I see involved in the so called free Palestine effort. Against individuals? Of course not. Against grossly inadequate, cowardly, self serving behavior of nearly all the individuals involved? Absolutely.
Every one of the people I'm describing may be doing exactly what history requires. But to my trained eye none, with a certain exception of Diane Wilson (on other crucial issues), and the possible exception of very few others, with the near certain exception of the international solidarity movement activists in Palestine, with the near certainty exception of some other activists in Palestine. With the fairly certain exception of much or most of Hamas, heroic, intelligent, informed freedom fighters.
But I just mentioned dozens of people on a planet with seven billion. This death fast is a protest against the behavior of almost everyone, above the age of 12, on earth, particularly we over privileged in the United States . We are behaving like the walking dead people that we are. In willful, catatonic denial . Fiddling while Rome burns. Not lifting a finger so that our nieces and nephews, our children, our grandchildren, have a future remotely worth living in terms of democratic society , a planet habitable , other than the police state that is being developed in Palestine for export to the elites around the world.
And this death fast is a protest against everyone I know , and everyone I see involved in the so called free Palestine effort. Against individuals? Of course not. Against grossly inadequate, cowardly, self serving behavior of nearly all the individuals involved? Absolutely.
Every one of the people I'm describing may be doing exactly what history requires. But to my trained eye none, with a certain exception of Diane Wilson (on other crucial issues), and the possible exception of very few others, with the near certain exception of the international solidarity movement activists in Palestine, with the near certainty exception of some other activists in Palestine. With the fairly certain exception of much or most of Hamas, heroic, intelligent, informed freedom fighters.
But I just mentioned dozens of people on a planet with seven billion. This death fast is a protest against the behavior of almost everyone, above the age of 12, on earth, particularly we over privileged in the United States . We are behaving like the walking dead people that we are. In willful, catatonic denial . Fiddling while Rome burns. Not lifting a finger so that our nieces and nephews, our children, our grandchildren, have a future remotely worth living in terms of democratic society , a planet habitable , other than the police state that is being developed in Palestine for export to the elites around the world.
“Christian Zionism does not promote peace and totally ignores justice,” he added. “It brings the terminology of divine right into a modern conflict and tries to solve that modern conflict not by international law but by making claims on behalf of God — and how is that different from radical Islam which claims there’s a divine right to their actions?” ....To evangelicals, Zionism an increasingly tough sell
“Christian Zionism does not promote peace and totally ignores justice,”
he added. “It brings the terminology of divine right into a modern
conflict and tries to solve that modern conflict not by international
law but by making claims on behalf of God — and how is that different
from radical Islam which claims there’s a divine right to their
actions?”
http://electronicintifada.net/content/evangelicals-zionism-increasingly-tough-sell/14357
http://electronicintifada.net/content/evangelicals-zionism-increasingly-tough-sell/14357
***** Obama, have I have really been wrong about you all along??? "President Obama is basically doing the bidding of all the big corporations," says Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is "a delivery mechanism for a broad corporate agenda." Vid. Dn!
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/15084
America’s immoral exceptionalism: The lie we keep telling ourselves about foreign policy and democracy
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/19/americas_immoral_exceptionalism_the_lie_we_keep_telling_ourselves_about_foreign_policy_and_democracy/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Chris Hayes show likely to be terminated. Chris is far and away the most trustworthy newest personality on television. This speaks volumes about we Americans. We are not worth saving. But the Palestinians are.
http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/59818/fin-farewell-to-chris-hayes-an-awkward-qa-and-cooch-toupees/
***** SPDF Day 18: profoundly discouraging article. From the Obama administration...
***** SPDF Day 18: profoundly discouraging article. From the Obama administration we may expect more of the same. Looks like they expect, and will allow, the next Israeli extermination of Palestinians. And the next. And the next. And the next. " Enraged by Netanyahu's rhetoric, White House officials believe Israeli-U.S. relations fundamentally changed "..... This was Pr. Obama's opening to impose a near-immediate UN resoution(s). Instead, he and his staff are looking at his 'legacy,' setting the stage for some future president, to maybe, sometime, bring productive 'talks.' There are no 'talks' between the gang rape mob and the girl... until force shows up and enforces law. There are no 'talks' until the world community, and the US, FORCES Israel to obey the law. This article speaks a simple continuance of the last 68 years of genocidal US policy. I am now almost certain that either I've misjudged Pr. Obama all along, or that finally, somehow, they've either literally cloned him into an evil twin, to scared the living sh*t out of him to do their (the world financial elites) will. I can't explain his drone program, criminalizing Venezuella, criminalizing Ed Snowden, and now this cowardly, criminally missed opportunity re Palestine. The author of this article is a brilliant, good young man, Peter Beinart. I'll watch to see if he is wrong on this one, tho unless he is deliberately misleading, that is unlikely. Today is now darker than even the day before yesterday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.647859
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.647859
3.19.2015
"Both girls need medical attention as well as cosmetic surgery, but the shut borders with Egypt and Israel means that they can't travel to receive treatment in Turkey nor receive specialist doctors who are willing to travel to the besieged Gaza Strip." DETAIL
Both girls need medical attention as well as cosmetic surgery, but the
shut borders with Egypt and Israel means that they can't travel to
receive treatment in Turkey nor receive specialist doctors who are
willing to travel to the besieged Gaza Strip. http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dalia-khalifa-gazas-unbreakable-girl-1811803506
pic. The problem is NOT people hating Jews. The problem IS Zionists being SUPREMELY HATEFUL.
The problem was NOT people hating Germans. The problem WAS Nazis being SUPREMELY HATEFUL.
The problem is NOT people hating Jews. The problem IS Zionists being SUPREMELY HATEFUL.
The problem is NOT people hating Jews. The problem IS Zionists being SUPREMELY HATEFUL.
***** vlog. SPDF Day 17:I EXPECT TO TERMINATE THIS DEATH FAST...
SPDF Day 17: I expect to terminate this death fast within the next few days. I'm no expert on missiles but I know that some are equipped with an abort mechanism. Anyone that launches a campaign of any sort and regardless of changing circumstances is unwilling to change their plans as a zealot, a madman. This death vast was begun on the day, on the night before, Netanyahu was here in Washington enabling Congress to demonstrate its complete corruption, and his as well. It was a time of complete darkness. Utter hopelessness. Absolute shamefullness among the cowardly inadequacy of the American Free Palestine activities.
We American activists don't do what's needed. We do what's convenient. We do what feels good. We do what attracts money, followers, accolades, while enabling us to continue on with our over privileged lifestyles. The exceptions prove the rule.
I think that may have changed now. No, it has changed. The question is how substantial is the change, and will it continue.
I posted earlier today some discussion of my analysis of the situation. At the core is the widely covered news that the Obama Administration may have been given enough license by this criminal Netanyahu and his criminal Israeli country to act aggressively to impose the international law of record, the 1967 borders and the right of return for the 3.5 million Palestinian refugees. I make not the slightest assumption that tomorrow's headlines might not reverse all this. But I do make the assumption, it is my analysis, that A. it could be substantive, and B. It changes the clarity of the situation with in which I am on Death Fast. Even the most infinitesimal candle in a room of absolutes darkness and be seen. Well I could be that candle on the day, and on the days since, Netanyahu was here in town. But for the moment the room is no longer nearly so dark with these obvious considerations on the part of the Obama Administration.
I suspect that I'll not reach a final conclusion for several days. I'll continue to watch the news for clues as to whether this is substantive or illusory. But within hours or days I think there is an excellent chance that the best way I can serve the part of my family that is Palestine is to terminate this death fast, regain strength, continue my online work, probably continue my vigil and work, and to watch for the next point of clarity as to how I can serve, which could well be, if the next absolute darkness appears even almost immediately, to launch another death fast.
As I wrote in an immensely important post the other day, I feel not the slightest hesitation to have my life terminate now, this instant, if it can save one Palestinian in the next 20 years. But the clarity for that at the moment may have been lost, and there may now be new and better opportunities to serve even more. I'll see.
I will, I AM giving my Life for Palestine, for the infinite Joy of it. The only variable is how to best serve in doing that. I'll continue to re-calculate breath, by breath, by breath.
We American activists don't do what's needed. We do what's convenient. We do what feels good. We do what attracts money, followers, accolades, while enabling us to continue on with our over privileged lifestyles. The exceptions prove the rule.
I think that may have changed now. No, it has changed. The question is how substantial is the change, and will it continue.
I posted earlier today some discussion of my analysis of the situation. At the core is the widely covered news that the Obama Administration may have been given enough license by this criminal Netanyahu and his criminal Israeli country to act aggressively to impose the international law of record, the 1967 borders and the right of return for the 3.5 million Palestinian refugees. I make not the slightest assumption that tomorrow's headlines might not reverse all this. But I do make the assumption, it is my analysis, that A. it could be substantive, and B. It changes the clarity of the situation with in which I am on Death Fast. Even the most infinitesimal candle in a room of absolutes darkness and be seen. Well I could be that candle on the day, and on the days since, Netanyahu was here in town. But for the moment the room is no longer nearly so dark with these obvious considerations on the part of the Obama Administration.
I suspect that I'll not reach a final conclusion for several days. I'll continue to watch the news for clues as to whether this is substantive or illusory. But within hours or days I think there is an excellent chance that the best way I can serve the part of my family that is Palestine is to terminate this death fast, regain strength, continue my online work, probably continue my vigil and work, and to watch for the next point of clarity as to how I can serve, which could well be, if the next absolute darkness appears even almost immediately, to launch another death fast.
As I wrote in an immensely important post the other day, I feel not the slightest hesitation to have my life terminate now, this instant, if it can save one Palestinian in the next 20 years. But the clarity for that at the moment may have been lost, and there may now be new and better opportunities to serve even more. I'll see.
I will, I AM giving my Life for Palestine, for the infinite Joy of it. The only variable is how to best serve in doing that. I'll continue to re-calculate breath, by breath, by breath.
***** SPDF Day 17 MUST READ.: MY DEMAND IS NO LESS THAN....
***** SPDF Day 17 MUST READ.: My demand is nothing less than the immediate restoration and of full human rights, 100% human rights....
My demand is nothing less than the immediate restoration and of full human rights, 100% human rights, for the seven million Palestinians of my family who have been Tortured, and tormented, terrorized, dispossessed, humiliated, defiled, degraded... by the US and Israel for 68 years now. More specifically I demand of my government that they obey the law, they stop supplying weapons to a terrorist state Israel, they stop providing funding to a terrorist state Israel, they stop obstructing in the UN almost all countries of the world in holding Israel to international law. United States law forbids the providing of weapons to a country that uses those weapons for offensive purposes. Israel is the quintessential example of that notwithstanding the tidal waves of Israeli lies and deceit, propaganda, to the contrary.
My goal is not to die. My goal is to bring about to some even minuscule measure this objective. My goal is at minimum to save the life, to reduce by even one day, the torture and torment of one of those seven million Palestinians of my family over the next 20 years. And that I can do.
In an important post of several days ago I described the law of social change which is the law of sufficient suffering, sufficient paying the price for the change. That is based on an extensive study of a history of change, particularly unviolent change, and is indisputably the way change happens.
I cannot have the impact that millions of my brothers and sisters in the over privileged, colonial, terrorist, US could bring to bear by joining me and doing their part. But I can do my part. Mine can be one of the Lives, it will be one of the lives, on the scale of change, and when enough are added to the scale, the rest almost certainly to be Palestinian children and other inocent Palestinians, due to our collective apathy, inhumanity, cowardice on the left, in the scale will be tilted to Justice.
No, I do not expect this to happen before the last Palestinian is exterminated. Netanyahu and his satanic minions are acting and speaking just as the Nazis did in the lead up to the extermination of the Jews. They are absolutely the children, the psychological and philosophical and spiritual descendants, of Hitler and the Nazis. That's not a condemnation per say. It is a rather expected psychological fact. Those who are abused frequently learn and adopt and practice the lifestyle of abusers. Netanyhu and his sick, sociopathic, psychotic, post traumatic, siege mentality hoards are no exception.
I do not know what impact if any the news of today and the last several days will have on this death fast campaign. It is possible that the game has changed dramatically now. It has been and remains my belief that Pr. Obama is a profoundly good man and detests the human rights desecration of the Palestinians as much as I. The great Edward Said was his professor. Pr. Obama has just appointed his classmate from Harvard, Robert Malley, as his point man on this situation, to the fury of the Zionists. Malley, a graduate of Yale, Harvard, Oxford, it seems unlikely to me that Pr. Obama would have appointed him to a meaningless post this month, or that Maley would have accepted.
I consider Pr. Obama the greatest president this country has ever seen, consummately brilliant, profoundly serious, and I think it is entirely possible that he has been working to enable Netanyahu to accumulate enough rope for himself that he hang himself. And it could be that Netanyahu did so in the final days of this past election.
Also possible, I believe, is that Netanyahu could be in on it to some degree. Not so much that I care, but this is quite possible. Netanyahu could have enough sanity that he sees and cares that Israel is headed toward global pariah status in the world community for as long as Israel survives. He could have enough sanity to see and care about this. Im not betting on it, but it is possible. And his calculation, possibly in consultation with the Obama administration, could have been, could be, that the only way to bring about a just resolution, given the insane Israeli and U.S. Zionist right wing , was to maneuver such that Pr. Obama could get away with imposing it on Israel.
My demand is nothing less than the immediate restoration and of full human rights, 100% human rights, for the seven million Palestinians of my family who have been Tortured, and tormented, terrorized, dispossessed, humiliated, defiled, degraded... by the US and Israel for 68 years now. More specifically I demand of my government that they obey the law, they stop supplying weapons to a terrorist state Israel, they stop providing funding to a terrorist state Israel, they stop obstructing in the UN almost all countries of the world in holding Israel to international law. United States law forbids the providing of weapons to a country that uses those weapons for offensive purposes. Israel is the quintessential example of that notwithstanding the tidal waves of Israeli lies and deceit, propaganda, to the contrary.
My goal is not to die. My goal is to bring about to some even minuscule measure this objective. My goal is at minimum to save the life, to reduce by even one day, the torture and torment of one of those seven million Palestinians of my family over the next 20 years. And that I can do.
In an important post of several days ago I described the law of social change which is the law of sufficient suffering, sufficient paying the price for the change. That is based on an extensive study of a history of change, particularly unviolent change, and is indisputably the way change happens.
I cannot have the impact that millions of my brothers and sisters in the over privileged, colonial, terrorist, US could bring to bear by joining me and doing their part. But I can do my part. Mine can be one of the Lives, it will be one of the lives, on the scale of change, and when enough are added to the scale, the rest almost certainly to be Palestinian children and other inocent Palestinians, due to our collective apathy, inhumanity, cowardice on the left, in the scale will be tilted to Justice.
No, I do not expect this to happen before the last Palestinian is exterminated. Netanyahu and his satanic minions are acting and speaking just as the Nazis did in the lead up to the extermination of the Jews. They are absolutely the children, the psychological and philosophical and spiritual descendants, of Hitler and the Nazis. That's not a condemnation per say. It is a rather expected psychological fact. Those who are abused frequently learn and adopt and practice the lifestyle of abusers. Netanyhu and his sick, sociopathic, psychotic, post traumatic, siege mentality hoards are no exception.
I do not know what impact if any the news of today and the last several days will have on this death fast campaign. It is possible that the game has changed dramatically now. It has been and remains my belief that Pr. Obama is a profoundly good man and detests the human rights desecration of the Palestinians as much as I. The great Edward Said was his professor. Pr. Obama has just appointed his classmate from Harvard, Robert Malley, as his point man on this situation, to the fury of the Zionists. Malley, a graduate of Yale, Harvard, Oxford, it seems unlikely to me that Pr. Obama would have appointed him to a meaningless post this month, or that Maley would have accepted.
I consider Pr. Obama the greatest president this country has ever seen, consummately brilliant, profoundly serious, and I think it is entirely possible that he has been working to enable Netanyahu to accumulate enough rope for himself that he hang himself. And it could be that Netanyahu did so in the final days of this past election.
Also possible, I believe, is that Netanyahu could be in on it to some degree. Not so much that I care, but this is quite possible. Netanyahu could have enough sanity that he sees and cares that Israel is headed toward global pariah status in the world community for as long as Israel survives. He could have enough sanity to see and care about this. Im not betting on it, but it is possible. And his calculation, possibly in consultation with the Obama administration, could have been, could be, that the only way to bring about a just resolution, given the insane Israeli and U.S. Zionist right wing , was to maneuver such that Pr. Obama could get away with imposing it on Israel.
***** This COULD change everything: "Malley argues that negotiations with the Palestinians today must include Hamas because the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is no longer considered the Palestinian people's sole legitimate representative....." detail
***** This COULD change everything: "Malley argues that negotiations with the Palestinians today must include Hamas because the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is no longer considered the Palestinian people's sole legitimate representative....." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Malley
***** This COULD change everything: British deputy PM: If Netanyahu rejects two-state solution, U.K. will recognize Palestine If Netanyahu rules out a Palestinian state and expands West Bank settlements, 'the world, including the British parliament, would have no option, but to recognize a Palestinian state,' says Nick Clegg.
***** SPDF Day 17: This COULD change everything...
***** SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 17: This COULD change everything: HA'ARETZ: U.S. could back UN resolution on Palestine, White House official says Move to come in response to Netanyahu's two-state reversal, official tells NYT. Obama to pass responsibility for Israel ties to Kerry; 'President doesn’t want to waste his time,' says U.S. official.http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.647746
More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism
More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/33233/more-desired-than-our-owne-salvation-the-roots-of-christian-zionism-opinion/#AJFrr3yGlFTYrmfH.99
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/33233/more-desired-than-our-owne-salvation-the-roots-of-christian-zionism-opinion/#AJFrr3yGlFTYrmfH.99
nd. From FB: "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
nd. From FB: "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
Joseph Stiglitz: We’ve been brainwashed It's no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality. The rich prefer it that way
We’ve been brainwashed
It's no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality. The rich prefer it that way
***** SPDF Day 17: This could change everything - US reportedly weighs recognizing a Palestinian state...
US reportedly weighs recognizing a Palestinian state according to '67 lines
The White House might also consider paring down the defense American diplomats give Israel at the UNhttp://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/64836-150319-us-reportedly-weighs-recognizing-a-palestinian-state-according-to-67-lines
***** vlog. Day 17 (Capital Hill): "Palestinians... "Cheap,' 'near worthless.' This is the price that the U.S. activists, so called activists, to Free Palestine, are establishing on Palestinian Life and Human Rights.
SPDF Stop palestine's death fast the 17 (Capital Hill): "Cheap,' 'near worthless.' This is the price that the U.S. activists, so called activists, to Free Palestine, are establishing on Palestinian Life and Human Rights. Near worthless. No? Have you forgotten what setting a price, setting a value, looks like? The marchers in Selma set the price on the life and human rights of black Americans. The Salt Marchers in India, the marchers on the Salt Works in India, set the price, set the value, on the life and rights of Indians. The young Egyptians in Tahrir Square set the value of Egyptian freedom, and Egyptian rights. The International Solidarity Movement workers in Israel are setting the price on Palestinian Life. They're setting it very high. Rachel Corrie is the clearest example but many many other young international's are setting the ultimate value on Palestinian Life. But their work is obscured, hidden, not only by the Zionist terrorized U.S. Media, but it is diluted to nothingness by the infinitely larger price setters, the infinitely more visible U.S. so-called Free Palestine activists.
Now some of these so called Free Palestine activists take my breath away with their humanity and courage. Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky a few of the heroic actions of Jewish Voice for Peace. The BDS activists on college campuses are light years beyond my humanity, or rather my inhumanity, when I was a self absorbed air head when I was in college. But that doesn't change the fact that the price they all are setting on Palestinian Life is 'virtually worthless.' The value they are setting on Palestinian Life is virtually nil. No? The price of black lives and black freedom back in the sixties set by college students was risking their lives and careers and education and reputation by leaving their campuses, leaving their towns, leaving their homes and going in droves, to work in what must have been terrifying back reaches of the south, and or to go to prison like Parchman Prison. Some of them paid with their lives setting the life of black life, and black freedom, at the ultimate value, at the ultimate price, where it belongs.
These are facts. They are historically indisputable facts. Yes, today, neither on the right for the left do we value facts. Especially among US liberals, especially amoung US liberal 'activists.' We value opinion. We value group consensus (you know, circle-jerking). We don't value historical fact. We fear historical fact because historical fact condemns our current cowardly inaction and demands that we act differently.
3.18.2015
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