Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother |
| From | Bagronk the Happy Orc |
| Date | 2002-05-17 17:52 (2002-05-17 17:52) |
| Message-ID | <dn8aeu47ia64lbf7q98g12dfdtt7keso7d@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | chris cunningham |
I found some words from "chris cunningham" <chrislee@neo.rr.com>in my phone cable...
chris cunninghamYes. Well, I'm realistic enough to doubt that pure civil disobedience would work in that case. This requires a charismatic leader like Gandhi and a somewhat super-human patience of the people. But letting open the question of actual self-defence against, let's say, tanks in Dschenin (English spelling? Jenin?), I totally agree that these silly, foot-shooting, brutal suicide bombings have to be stopped immediately.
seems to me that the palestinians should rediscover civil disobedience, ala thoreau and gandhi: play nice, do whatever the conqueroring israelis say, and watch u.s. public opinion turn, in response to the poor peaceful palestinians being crowded off their own lands, into squalid reservations -- i mean interment camps -- no, wait, refugee camps, that's what they're calling them this time around, right.
shooting themselves in the foot, that's what the palestinians are doing, all right.
Perhaps it needs a combined effort of both sides. Palestinian civil disobedience, garnished with mass demonstrations (without gunfire, of course), and also a Israeli general strike. Add some refusal of obedience in the Israeli army (well, this would solve the self-defense problem, no attacks - no defense), and you'll quickly see a strange picture: all these Likud hardliners and bigoted orthodox Jewish settlers and Muslim fanatics and power-hungry Hamas bastards united. For the first time ever. Doing the same thing. Running!
-- Bagronk the Happy Orc Uruk Revolutionary Socialist Movement
2002-03-30-
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