Where is Palestine’s Mandela?
My plea to all who campaign for justice for the Palestinians is – give a priority to calling and lobbying for the release of Marwan Barghouti, the man who could become the Palestinian Mandela in terms of the reconciliation needed if the two-state solution is to be resurrected from its grave.
If it was, my guess is that that Barghouti would entertain the same hope as Arafat – that one or two generations of a two-state peace would lead by mutual consent to a one state with equal rights for all.
Footnote
James Robbins, the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent, made what I thought was a most perceptive comment a few days ago. He said words to the effect that maybe it was not Mandela who had been in jail for 27 years but most of South Africa’s whites – in the jail of apartheid ideology. In the case of Marwan Barghouti, maybe it’s not him who is in jail but most Israeli Jews – in the jail of Zionism’s ideology.
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December 12th, 2013 at 12:37 am
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hugh:
December 12th, 2013 at 3:39 am
The last paragraph of the article included an excellent observation. Nations become incarcerated by their own ideology, especially when those ideologies demean and diminish others, as Israel does, as South Africa did, as the British and other colonial powers reduced native populations to servitude. A considerable amount of energy has to be expended to control indigenous populations and the shame and guilt of the “jailers” is submerged in such a way that the victims are inevitably blamed for their victimhood. But this attitude will result in the dominant culture becoming dysfunctional and filled with “agenbeit of inwit”, a remorse of conscience. Israeli people will suffer from the conflict between the higher levels of ethics that they are taught and their indifferent and often brutal treatment of the indigenous Palestinians.
Rehmat:
December 12th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
Marwan is no Mandela. Mandela began his career as a member of South African resistance conducting an armed resistance against the European occupation. After spending 27 years in jail, he turned into a non-violent struggle against the apartheid regime. At the end, ANC was able to dismantle the apartheid regime by a cosmetic regime change. To this day, the South African masses are still living in poverty while the pillars of the apartheid regime (White and Jewish settlers) controlling the country’s wealth, land and military establishment.
Once Marwan makes a similar deal with the Zionist regime – he will be freed and helped to replace the Islamist resistance groups which has ties to Iran and Hizbullah.
http://rehmat1.com/2013/07/01/nelson-mandela-a-timely-tribute/