3.21.2015
Vid. Bear rescues crow from drowning.
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Ha'aretz: Israel chooses the path to apartheid. It was once possible to argue that Israel's policies were not the same as apartheid because their stated goal, however imperfectly pursued, was to end the occupation. After Netanyahu's reelection, this is no longer the case.
Israel chooses the path to apartheid
It was once possible to argue that Israel's policies were not the same as apartheid because their stated goal, however imperfectly pursued, was to end the occupation. After Netanyahu's reelection, this is no longer the case.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.648006
nd. SPDF Day 19: "Americans always do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted every other option” But this time it will be too late...
SPDF Day 19: "Americans always do the right thing, after they have exhausted every other option." Churchill. This time, all the Palestinians will be dead, first, as the Darfuries before them, and the million Iraqis, and the Rwandans.... But it's ok. We Amerikan lip-service liberals 'tried,' oh well, and now, where shall we go for dinner to talk about our 'next' cause?
nd. "Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1952. My favorite quote of all time.
"Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1952. My favorite quote of all time.
SPDF Day 19: "The naked numbers may be deceptive… the fact is that the Israeli electorate is dominated by hypernationalist, pro-fascist figures...
"The naked numbers may be deceptive. What really counts is the fact that
the Israeli electorate is still dominated by hypernationalist, in some
cases proto-fascist, figures. It is in no way inclined to make peace. It
has given a clear mandate for policies that preclude any possibility of
moving toward a settlement with the Palestinians and that will further
deepen Israel’s colonial venture in the Palestinian territories,
probably irreversibly." http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/mar/21/israel-elections-ugly-truth/
SPDF Day 19: My Last Book. The primary purpose of my blog posts (and book) are for after my demise, or whatever form the termination of my life takes now...
SPDF Day 19: The primary purpose of my blog posts is for after my demise from this Fast. I intend toward the end to incorporate them in book(let), "Stop Palestine's Death Fast." Where my experience of the last 8-12 years as a dedicated unviolent warrior for peace, and for 40 years as an expert in leading and bringing about high stakes, near-immediate, transformative change, is distilled to Free Palestine, in my effort to do my little part of showing you the path you so far avoid seeing with all of your might... the COMMITTED, PAY THE PRICE, Universal IMMEDIATE Family Emergency response, that is the only path to Life, individually, and now, for not just the Palestinians, but all of Creation. My prior works are here: https://www.scribd.com/Start_Loving_9784
SPDF Day 19: HAVE THE DECENCY, GUTS…to face the mountains of theoretical, historical, practical, and experiential learning, writings, examples on which this campaign is based. ..
SPDF Day 19: HAVE THE DECENCY, GUTS, as you continue to disparage, denigrate, denounce, discount, dispute, distance from, generally dis, and / or dismiss my efforts, at least face the mountains of theoretical, historical, practical, and experiential learning, writings, examples... on which it is based. You will find all of my foundation at two sites: 1. start-loving.blogspot.com. A. The articles are the ones I select every day as credible, substantial, and strategically important. B. The links in rows at the top are the most effective distillations of the scholarly studies, books, articles from the world's leading academics where one can quickly get a profound grasp of the situation. C. The SPDF posts are my distillation of a lifetime of study and practice of leadership, nonviolence (unviolent warfare), strategic anaylisis and planning... specific to Palestine and what is needed NOW. 2. There is a God-send site (NOTICE: SET YOUR ADBLOCK IN YOUR BROWSER, FIRST, TO AVOID THE PORN ADS. The Pirate Bay dot se / Unviolentpeacemaker) created by some brave soul over the years that has virtually all of the great scholarship, models, media and practice on Unviolent Warfare (nonviolence), and Palestine / Israel. I've read and incorporated the vast majority in to my being, and into my work.
nd. SPDF Day 19: On site White House 9am - 7pm (est) to Free Palestine.
SPDF Day 19: On site White House 9am - 7pm (est) to Free Palestine.
***** SPDF Day 19 vlog. Between 2000 and 20,000, maybe 200,000, of we Palestinians will be slaughtered within the next year and a half...
SPDF Day 19. Between 2000 and 20,000, maybe 200,000, of we Palestinians will be slaughtered within the next year and 1/2. Everyone knows this. As a Palestinian I hate you American and European Free Palestine activists more than I hate the Zionists. You are using us for your moralistic orgy.
You can't possibly thank the writing another book is going to stop the most powerful military in the world, the Israeli U.S. military complex. You can't possibly think that BDS is going to stop a population that entirely unlike South Africa, is totally psychotic, posttraumatic, siege mentality, has contempt for the rest of the world, and has been planning all along for the isolation that is now threatened. You can't possibly think that a march, here, demonstration there, more articles in journals no one reads, tantruming and whining in congressional sessions occasionally... will stop the Zionist Maffia... in literally 1000 years!
All of these had their place! BUT NOT NOW. PUT YOUR BODY IN THE WAY, KEEP IT THERE, OR SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY.
And you only have, WE only have, months to do it. (I forgot, after the next wave of we Palestinians, then the next wave, then the last of us are exterminated... YOU GET TO GO HOME, FEELING SMUG, AND RIGHTEOUS, THAT YOU 'TRIED.' YOU NEVER TRIED. YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED. YOU HAVE USED US, TO JERK OFF.)
And on top of that you can't think that your puny BDS which can only get a tiny segment of the Israeli economy, most of which is military and high tech you can't possibly think that that will be offset by the billions of Adelson and the other criminal American families with their billions that bankroll the Zionist mafia.
So your incessant books, book tours, talks to churches, talks at synagogues, emotional attempts to heal heal Hillel and Judaism, your BPS, your undignified ranting in Congressional Sessions or your taunts of AIPAC... You can't possibly think that they're going to save even one Palestinian Life.
Yes, of course most of these (not the undignified ranting) can be part of a solution, the same way the woman's auxiliary can be part of a military, the USO can be part of the military campaign, the army can be part of a military campaign.
But without the insanely committed special forces, the outrageously risky marine forces, there is no campaign, there is no hope of victory.
You god damn liberals are using we Palestinians in your moralistic orgy. And it's not neutral. You create the illusion for otherwise good hearted people that the solution is on the way. And with that illusion you keep them on the sidelines. Oh well, I guess it's going to be OK.
Have the freaking decency to escalate - COMMIT, PUT YOUR LIFE LIMB AND TREASURE IN THE WAY OF THIS AND KEEP IT THERE UNTIL YOU WIN OR YOU DIE. 'EXAMPLE IS NOT THE MAJOR THING IN INFLUENCING PEOPLE. IT IS THE ONLY THING.' Albert Schweitzer. 'PAY THE PRICE, THE AWEFUL, IMMENSE PRICE, IT WILL TAKE TO STOP THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MAFFIA NOW, OR DIE TRYING. THIS IS A HOLOCAUST. THIS IS YOUR HOLOCAUST ON YOUR WATCH. MAKE 'NEVER AGAIN' MEAN... NEVER AGAIN... OR DIE TRYING. (The scale is smaller, but THIS IS THE HOLOCAUST ON YOUR WATCH. ACT LIKE IT!!!) Have the freaking decency to behave as though 2000 to 200,000 people are about to be slaughtered, YOUR people, YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY... because they are, or go home, and shut up, and stop creating the illusion that anything is in the works to save we Palestinians because currently nothing is.
Oh, and to my Palestinian brothers and sisters... STOP THE VIOLENCE. STOP THROWING ROCKS. USE YOUR BODIES TO CONFRONT THE VIOLENCE. LET THEM KILL YOU. PILE UP THE BODIES. Every rock you throw, tho it is your right, keeps the all important world's confused, timid, but good-hearted bystanders of the world... ON THE SIDELINES. Stop it. Study MLK Jr. Study Wael Gohnim. Study Tahrir Square. Go to (set your ad block on your browser first to block the porn ads) The Pirate Bay dot se / Unviolentpeacemaker to the blessed site 'UNVIOLENTPEACEMAKER.' Some loving soul has put virtually ALL of the greatest books on non-violence, Palestine, Ecocide... up there. Buy the materials when you can, but READ. STUDY. LEARN. Violence is suicide for us Palestinians. SUICIDE. We are going to die, many of us more, before an end can come. We need to make every death count!!! AND THAT MEANS NON-VIOLENCE. DEATH FAST. LAUNCH VERSIONS OF THE MARCH ON THE SALT-WORKS, THE SALT MARCH. STOP THE ROCKETS. ALL THEY KILL IS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT!!!!! PLEASE!!!!
You can't possibly thank the writing another book is going to stop the most powerful military in the world, the Israeli U.S. military complex. You can't possibly think that BDS is going to stop a population that entirely unlike South Africa, is totally psychotic, posttraumatic, siege mentality, has contempt for the rest of the world, and has been planning all along for the isolation that is now threatened. You can't possibly think that a march, here, demonstration there, more articles in journals no one reads, tantruming and whining in congressional sessions occasionally... will stop the Zionist Maffia... in literally 1000 years!
All of these had their place! BUT NOT NOW. PUT YOUR BODY IN THE WAY, KEEP IT THERE, OR SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY.
And you only have, WE only have, months to do it. (I forgot, after the next wave of we Palestinians, then the next wave, then the last of us are exterminated... YOU GET TO GO HOME, FEELING SMUG, AND RIGHTEOUS, THAT YOU 'TRIED.' YOU NEVER TRIED. YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED. YOU HAVE USED US, TO JERK OFF.)
And on top of that you can't think that your puny BDS which can only get a tiny segment of the Israeli economy, most of which is military and high tech you can't possibly think that that will be offset by the billions of Adelson and the other criminal American families with their billions that bankroll the Zionist mafia.
So your incessant books, book tours, talks to churches, talks at synagogues, emotional attempts to heal heal Hillel and Judaism, your BPS, your undignified ranting in Congressional Sessions or your taunts of AIPAC... You can't possibly think that they're going to save even one Palestinian Life.
Yes, of course most of these (not the undignified ranting) can be part of a solution, the same way the woman's auxiliary can be part of a military, the USO can be part of the military campaign, the army can be part of a military campaign.
But without the insanely committed special forces, the outrageously risky marine forces, there is no campaign, there is no hope of victory.
You god damn liberals are using we Palestinians in your moralistic orgy. And it's not neutral. You create the illusion for otherwise good hearted people that the solution is on the way. And with that illusion you keep them on the sidelines. Oh well, I guess it's going to be OK.
Have the freaking decency to escalate - COMMIT, PUT YOUR LIFE LIMB AND TREASURE IN THE WAY OF THIS AND KEEP IT THERE UNTIL YOU WIN OR YOU DIE. 'EXAMPLE IS NOT THE MAJOR THING IN INFLUENCING PEOPLE. IT IS THE ONLY THING.' Albert Schweitzer. 'PAY THE PRICE, THE AWEFUL, IMMENSE PRICE, IT WILL TAKE TO STOP THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MAFFIA NOW, OR DIE TRYING. THIS IS A HOLOCAUST. THIS IS YOUR HOLOCAUST ON YOUR WATCH. MAKE 'NEVER AGAIN' MEAN... NEVER AGAIN... OR DIE TRYING. (The scale is smaller, but THIS IS THE HOLOCAUST ON YOUR WATCH. ACT LIKE IT!!!) Have the freaking decency to behave as though 2000 to 200,000 people are about to be slaughtered, YOUR people, YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY... because they are, or go home, and shut up, and stop creating the illusion that anything is in the works to save we Palestinians because currently nothing is.
Oh, and to my Palestinian brothers and sisters... STOP THE VIOLENCE. STOP THROWING ROCKS. USE YOUR BODIES TO CONFRONT THE VIOLENCE. LET THEM KILL YOU. PILE UP THE BODIES. Every rock you throw, tho it is your right, keeps the all important world's confused, timid, but good-hearted bystanders of the world... ON THE SIDELINES. Stop it. Study MLK Jr. Study Wael Gohnim. Study Tahrir Square. Go to (set your ad block on your browser first to block the porn ads) The Pirate Bay dot se / Unviolentpeacemaker to the blessed site 'UNVIOLENTPEACEMAKER.' Some loving soul has put virtually ALL of the greatest books on non-violence, Palestine, Ecocide... up there. Buy the materials when you can, but READ. STUDY. LEARN. Violence is suicide for us Palestinians. SUICIDE. We are going to die, many of us more, before an end can come. We need to make every death count!!! AND THAT MEANS NON-VIOLENCE. DEATH FAST. LAUNCH VERSIONS OF THE MARCH ON THE SALT-WORKS, THE SALT MARCH. STOP THE ROCKETS. ALL THEY KILL IS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT!!!!! PLEASE!!!!
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
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