11 June 2007

Maria > Saul: ey, feel free to put whatever title you feel like regarding your feminism

selam,

ey, feel free to put whatever title you feel like regarding your feminism. :) once awhile when you bump into anyone with a bit more knowledge about feminism you might have to redefine or defend your way of "emanicipation". best of all would ofcourse be to distance yourself from your self, that is as a white man = norm, and use some skills/empathy of why women act and argue like they do. you say you are for womens right and against the discriminations but equally and automatically YOU decide how. nothing new here more than you do recognize the discrimination.

maybe rough love liberal bootcamp feminism?!

let me answer your letter in two parts (got an exam in 30 min).

you are right. there is a lot of ignorace conserning the palestinan-israeli conflict. but also a lot of propaganda, pr-tricks and rewriting the history. a bustrip to Israel will not make anyone more informed but the already informed. a bustrip to both israel and palestine will however do so much more. I study human geography and it´s scary how Israel defines it´s neighbourhoods physically. how israel has managed to change landscape, social fabric and history by have it´s own roadmap. step by step. I would love to write my paper on this, the physical segration and tactis used by the Israeli goverment but I hesitate. I am not use to the hate, the fear, the systematic unjustice and can´t really handle it = I loose hope in life.

You say that all countries have international boarders. then why dosen´t Israel have that? only towards egypt and jordan. as a matter of fact that together with not having a constitution transformed the birth of Israel into the roadmap of zionism.

"The modern Israeli state was forged in the fires of the first Middle East war in 1948-1949, but from the beginning it was a state without clear borders"
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6669545.stm

to be honest, Israel has no RIGHT to exist as a country in Palestine. The right is a zionist claim based on three rights of which none bears any weight in a rational, secular world. however, Israel do EXIST and that is now a reality. but it exist because of the 2 ww and of UN and should therefor also respect UN which it, as everyone knows, dosn´t. last libanon war when Israel intentionally bombed a UN quater just showed that to the very point. so if Israel got it´s right to exist from UN then the least Israel should do is to respect and follow UN = world.

there are not arabs in Israel. they are all palestines. the way you and everyone else totally refuse to verbalise that is just another way of diminishing them. like the zionist slogan " a land without a people for a people without land" when the fact was that "the land" was already fully occupied. that´s ideological rethoric. it seems that it´s not only the palestinan regions that are dangerouse, how about tel aviv? where the israelipalestinan taxidriver got killed by a "fresh" israeli because he thinks "arabs" are animals...
when it comes to killing the other side both of you are equally to blame. the hebron mosque killing should always stand as a memory of that. I will continue on this but I gotta go to my test...

just one note on the definition of colonialism

"Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colonies or administrative dependencies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled or displaced. Colonising nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious and linguistic structures on the conquered population (see also cultural imperialism). "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

zionism is an european ideology as so many other. what makes it unique is that it clearly states it´s aim and method how to resettle not in "an empty" territory but in an already occupied territory. that is why israel and south africa has been so good friends. specially when "everyone else" try to support ANC back in the 70-80.

gotta go...
will write some more soon..

wish me good luck!
:)

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