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		<title>By: Roger Tucker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Tucker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Davey Wavey, that’s the crux of it. I wouldn’t be so involved in the Israel/Palestine issues if it weren’t. The Palestinian cause transcends peoples and boundaries. It is the ultimate struggle between those who identify themselves as human beings first and any secondary, lesser ways of defining ourselves. This is the moral imperative spoken of by all the spiritual people in history, be they religious or secular. One could call it the permanent revolution, one that will be fought for a very long time, no doubt, but will in the end be decided when human beings finally grow up.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Davey Wavey, that’s the crux of it. I wouldn’t be so involved in the Israel/Palestine issues if it weren’t. The Palestinian cause transcends peoples and boundaries. It is the ultimate struggle between those who identify themselves as human beings first and any secondary, lesser ways of defining ourselves. This is the moral imperative spoken of by all the spiritual people in history, be they religious or secular. One could call it the permanent revolution, one that will be fought for a very long time, no doubt, but will in the end be decided when human beings finally grow up.</p>
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		<title>By: Davey Wavey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Davey Wavey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucker&#039;s observations are compelling.  The success of push back must not be national but based on universal principles entirely.  Algeria is a good example of such a revolution against oppression.  It is Israeli fascism that must go.  

And much activism in the WB and elsewhere is rooted in universalism.  The Zionist thugs spit on such universalism as un-Jewish, a product of Christianity.  Hitler spit on Christianity&#039;s values as well and favored the animal and the tribe.  The democratic plutocracies that Hitler despised must be organized to oppose Israel&#039;s aggression.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tucker&#8217;s observations are compelling.  The success of push back must not be national but based on universal principles entirely.  Algeria is a good example of such a revolution against oppression.  It is Israeli fascism that must go.  </p>
<p>And much activism in the WB and elsewhere is rooted in universalism.  The Zionist thugs spit on such universalism as un-Jewish, a product of Christianity.  Hitler spit on Christianity&#8217;s values as well and favored the animal and the tribe.  The democratic plutocracies that Hitler despised must be organized to oppose Israel&#8217;s aggression.</p>
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		<title>By: #PALESTINE NEWS &#124; Jan 20, 2013 &#124; Occupied Palestine &#124; فلسطين</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, The previous comment was meant for Rehmat&#039;s site. (Not sure  if it went through to you or not) I mistook your comment box for his.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, The previous comment was meant for Rehmat&#8217;s site. (Not sure  if it went through to you or not) I mistook your comment box for his.<br />
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jane Alexander</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Alexander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worth reading though there is a feeling that the victims are being blamed. Bit like &#039;woman wears short skirt therefore deserves to be assaulted&#039;. The Palestinians did not bring this upon themselves and all of the rest of us allowed the injustice to happen and continue to happen. Each one of us has a moral duty to speak out for humanity for Palestinians in every situation especially when it would be more comfortable to keep quiet.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Worth reading though there is a feeling that the victims are being blamed. Bit like &#8216;woman wears short skirt therefore deserves to be assaulted&#8217;. The Palestinians did not bring this upon themselves and all of the rest of us allowed the injustice to happen and continue to happen. Each one of us has a moral duty to speak out for humanity for Palestinians in every situation especially when it would be more comfortable to keep quiet.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Morley</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Morley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ Elna Najar. I agree with Elna. Many people raised in the various Christian denominations even have difficulty accepting that the Israelites are not the same as the Israelis! Or that their sentimental attachment to Old Testament characters must be set aside when looking at the question of justice and human rights in the modern world. Even if we leave aside the demented reasoning of the Christian Zionists, our entire Western Christian culture is so permeated with the Bible stories that some people must feel they are betraying their own religion if they do not accept Israel&#039;s claims to Palestinian land. The poor Palestinians have been doomed to suffer because of our un-intelligence and bigotry. I wish the leaders of the Christian Churches would encourage those who every Sunday preach to congregations all around the globe to concentrate less on Old Testament kings and prophets and more, much more, on Christ&#039;s teachings.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Elna Najar. I agree with Elna. Many people raised in the various Christian denominations even have difficulty accepting that the Israelites are not the same as the Israelis! Or that their sentimental attachment to Old Testament characters must be set aside when looking at the question of justice and human rights in the modern world. Even if we leave aside the demented reasoning of the Christian Zionists, our entire Western Christian culture is so permeated with the Bible stories that some people must feel they are betraying their own religion if they do not accept Israel&#8217;s claims to Palestinian land. The poor Palestinians have been doomed to suffer because of our un-intelligence and bigotry. I wish the leaders of the Christian Churches would encourage those who every Sunday preach to congregations all around the globe to concentrate less on Old Testament kings and prophets and more, much more, on Christ&#8217;s teachings.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger Tucker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Tucker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, thank you, Alan, for this exquisite presentation of the facts of the case and the dilemma facing all of us, not just the Palestinians (because Israel’s continued existence threatens all of humanity). Secondly, the crux of the dilemma, as you put it so well, is indeed the lack of a viable Palestinian leadership. But, unlike you, I trace this problem to Arafat, who basically sold out the Palestinians for a virtual mess of pottage. Without him the idea of two states would never have gained legitimacy among the majority of Palestinians or their supporters. 

He also compromised on the basic and fundamental right of return. Ever since he gave away the store – Abbas &amp; Co. have just followed suit - the Israelis have considered the Palestinians a mere inconvenience with whom they had no need to compromise. And, last but not least, he solidified, if not created, the dubious concept of Palestinian identity. This particular point will be met by most who sympathize with the Palestinian cause with some incredulity, so it will bear some explaining.

One of the most beautiful and least mentioned virtues of Palestine prior to the alien invasion was its very lack of identity based on religious, historical or national identity. That it happened to be majority Arab, Islamic or Middle Eastern did not give it a tribal character. By default, and particularly as the nexus of the Abrahamic traditions, it was international, indeed universally human. And its status as Southern Syria, part of the Ottoman Empire, was merely an historical and geographical coincidence, to be noted but hardly celebrated. It was at peace with itself and its neighbors, pluralistic and tolerant of all who came to its shores. It was as good a representative of Middle Earth as there could be.

As Gilad Atzmon has repeatedly pointed out, and as the central theme of his book The Wandering Who?, the root of the Zionist problem is one of an aggressive tribal identity. I make the point in my essay Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism 

https://sites.google.com/site/onedemocraticstatesite/Home/today-s-headlines/us-vs-them-on-the-meaning-of-fascism-by-roger-tucker

that an ‘aggressive tribal identity’ is the root and hallmark of fascism, properly defined. Zionism is the foremost exemplar of a fascist ideology, even more than Nazism, because it includes all the major varieties of that particularly egregious political phenomenon – a bellicose religious, ethnic as well as national identity all wrapped into one. By creating and legitimizing a consciousness of Palestinian identity, Arafat fell right into that trap. By turning it into a national struggle, Arafat deprived it of the most fundamental argument for opposing the genocide. 

If one considers all of the great opposition movements against domination by others – the American revolution, Gandhi’s struggle against the British Empire, Mandela’s resistance to apartheid, ML King’s civil rights movement, etc. – it will be noted that each of these successful movements appealed to universal rather than tribal imperatives. By turning the Palestinian resistance into a national struggle, Arafat greatly diminished the power that would have been available to his cause – it became just a local struggle between two opposing pseudo-nationalities and their natural allies rather than a universal movement against injustice and evil.

A sense of Palestinian identity was a natural reaction to an invasion by an alien identity group that defined itself primarily in ethno-centric, fascistic terms. It is not surprising, then, that it has had difficulty organizing itself around the principle of nationality, something heretofore foreign and fundamentally unpalatable to the culture. If there is going to be a successful defense it must be predicated on universal values with which even Zionized, brainwashed Americans and their imperial allies can identify. 

In looking for a leader, someone who simultaneously represents both the Palestinians specifically as well as humanity at large, anyone from Fatah is disqualified as it is a merely nationalistic and thoroughly discredited organization, and Hamas, whatever its virtues, represents merely an Islamist ideology.

That the leader of the resistance must be Palestinian seems obvious enough, but given the universal character of the struggle, that Palestinian could be from the diaspora, and might just as well be an American. It is America that is crucial, because without its support the malignant tumor would lose its blood supply and quickly dissolve. So it is there that we must look if the monster is to be defeated. 

Ramzy Baroud would do, and Azmi Bishara, the former head of the Palestinian Israeli Balad Party in Israel and currently exiled in Egypt, are other possibilities that come to mind. My own choice is someone who has already stated that he has no interest in playing that role. That is sufficient reason in itself to consider him. Genuine humility and lack of desire to put himself forward are strong recommendations in my book, but there is also the fact that he is Edward Said’s nephew, and therefore has a mantle ready to wear. I am speaking of Saree Makdisi, whom I hereby nominate from my position in cyberspace-at-large. Bottom line, though, is that it must be someone who would inspire the great majority of Palestinians and decent people everywhere. An organization such as Alan proposes would naturally arise in the wake of such leadership.

Before signing off I must also take issue with Alan’s proposition that “the prospects for the one-state solution becoming a reality would be improved if the presentation and selling of the case for it emphasized that the wellbeing and security of its Jewish citizens would be absolutely guaranteed, assuming only that they accepted with good grace their new status as equals and not masters.” It’s not that I disagree with that statement per se, but it implies that Israelis would be able to keep all of their stolen property and that all of them would perforce become Palestinian citizens. If that were the case, the Palestinians would become a subservient underclass even with a numerical majority within a nominal democracy. 

To avoid such an outcome, the liberation movement must look to the Algerian revolution as a precedent, rather than So. Africa. The French left en masse, although many of the colons had been in Algeria for several generations. The Palestinians, if they are wise, would insist on just such an outcome, at least as an initial demand. Jewish immigrants not born in Israel would have to leave, with a couple of suitcases, period. With the others certain matters could be negotiated, particularly reparations, property rights and so forth. Otherwise, they would once again be giving away the store prematurely and would find themselves essentially powerless in their own country. 

As for the tiresome argument that &quot;the Israelis would never agree,&quot; we are discussing an outcome in which their desires and demands would be largely irrelevant. I am more optimistic than Alan - in fact, I believe that the seemingly impossible dream is not only possible but inevitable. I think that history and nature will confirm my confidence. But in the meantime there&#039;s a very tough fight to be fought - may humanity triumph over criminal insanity. I think it will.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First off, thank you, Alan, for this exquisite presentation of the facts of the case and the dilemma facing all of us, not just the Palestinians (because Israel’s continued existence threatens all of humanity). Secondly, the crux of the dilemma, as you put it so well, is indeed the lack of a viable Palestinian leadership. But, unlike you, I trace this problem to Arafat, who basically sold out the Palestinians for a virtual mess of pottage. Without him the idea of two states would never have gained legitimacy among the majority of Palestinians or their supporters. </p>
<p>He also compromised on the basic and fundamental right of return. Ever since he gave away the store – Abbas &amp; Co. have just followed suit &#8211; the Israelis have considered the Palestinians a mere inconvenience with whom they had no need to compromise. And, last but not least, he solidified, if not created, the dubious concept of Palestinian identity. This particular point will be met by most who sympathize with the Palestinian cause with some incredulity, so it will bear some explaining.</p>
<p>One of the most beautiful and least mentioned virtues of Palestine prior to the alien invasion was its very lack of identity based on religious, historical or national identity. That it happened to be majority Arab, Islamic or Middle Eastern did not give it a tribal character. By default, and particularly as the nexus of the Abrahamic traditions, it was international, indeed universally human. And its status as Southern Syria, part of the Ottoman Empire, was merely an historical and geographical coincidence, to be noted but hardly celebrated. It was at peace with itself and its neighbors, pluralistic and tolerant of all who came to its shores. It was as good a representative of Middle Earth as there could be.</p>
<p>As Gilad Atzmon has repeatedly pointed out, and as the central theme of his book The Wandering Who?, the root of the Zionist problem is one of an aggressive tribal identity. I make the point in my essay Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism </p>
<p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onedemocraticstatesite/Home/today-s-headlines/us-vs-them-on-the-meaning-of-fascism-by-roger-tucker" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/onedemocraticstatesite/Home/today-s-headlines/us-vs-them-on-the-meaning-of-fascism-by-roger-tucker</a></p>
<p>that an ‘aggressive tribal identity’ is the root and hallmark of fascism, properly defined. Zionism is the foremost exemplar of a fascist ideology, even more than Nazism, because it includes all the major varieties of that particularly egregious political phenomenon – a bellicose religious, ethnic as well as national identity all wrapped into one. By creating and legitimizing a consciousness of Palestinian identity, Arafat fell right into that trap. By turning it into a national struggle, Arafat deprived it of the most fundamental argument for opposing the genocide. </p>
<p>If one considers all of the great opposition movements against domination by others – the American revolution, Gandhi’s struggle against the British Empire, Mandela’s resistance to apartheid, ML King’s civil rights movement, etc. – it will be noted that each of these successful movements appealed to universal rather than tribal imperatives. By turning the Palestinian resistance into a national struggle, Arafat greatly diminished the power that would have been available to his cause – it became just a local struggle between two opposing pseudo-nationalities and their natural allies rather than a universal movement against injustice and evil.</p>
<p>A sense of Palestinian identity was a natural reaction to an invasion by an alien identity group that defined itself primarily in ethno-centric, fascistic terms. It is not surprising, then, that it has had difficulty organizing itself around the principle of nationality, something heretofore foreign and fundamentally unpalatable to the culture. If there is going to be a successful defense it must be predicated on universal values with which even Zionized, brainwashed Americans and their imperial allies can identify. </p>
<p>In looking for a leader, someone who simultaneously represents both the Palestinians specifically as well as humanity at large, anyone from Fatah is disqualified as it is a merely nationalistic and thoroughly discredited organization, and Hamas, whatever its virtues, represents merely an Islamist ideology.</p>
<p>That the leader of the resistance must be Palestinian seems obvious enough, but given the universal character of the struggle, that Palestinian could be from the diaspora, and might just as well be an American. It is America that is crucial, because without its support the malignant tumor would lose its blood supply and quickly dissolve. So it is there that we must look if the monster is to be defeated. </p>
<p>Ramzy Baroud would do, and Azmi Bishara, the former head of the Palestinian Israeli Balad Party in Israel and currently exiled in Egypt, are other possibilities that come to mind. My own choice is someone who has already stated that he has no interest in playing that role. That is sufficient reason in itself to consider him. Genuine humility and lack of desire to put himself forward are strong recommendations in my book, but there is also the fact that he is Edward Said’s nephew, and therefore has a mantle ready to wear. I am speaking of Saree Makdisi, whom I hereby nominate from my position in cyberspace-at-large. Bottom line, though, is that it must be someone who would inspire the great majority of Palestinians and decent people everywhere. An organization such as Alan proposes would naturally arise in the wake of such leadership.</p>
<p>Before signing off I must also take issue with Alan’s proposition that “the prospects for the one-state solution becoming a reality would be improved if the presentation and selling of the case for it emphasized that the wellbeing and security of its Jewish citizens would be absolutely guaranteed, assuming only that they accepted with good grace their new status as equals and not masters.” It’s not that I disagree with that statement per se, but it implies that Israelis would be able to keep all of their stolen property and that all of them would perforce become Palestinian citizens. If that were the case, the Palestinians would become a subservient underclass even with a numerical majority within a nominal democracy. </p>
<p>To avoid such an outcome, the liberation movement must look to the Algerian revolution as a precedent, rather than So. Africa. The French left en masse, although many of the colons had been in Algeria for several generations. The Palestinians, if they are wise, would insist on just such an outcome, at least as an initial demand. Jewish immigrants not born in Israel would have to leave, with a couple of suitcases, period. With the others certain matters could be negotiated, particularly reparations, property rights and so forth. Otherwise, they would once again be giving away the store prematurely and would find themselves essentially powerless in their own country. </p>
<p>As for the tiresome argument that &#8220;the Israelis would never agree,&#8221; we are discussing an outcome in which their desires and demands would be largely irrelevant. I am more optimistic than Alan &#8211; in fact, I believe that the seemingly impossible dream is not only possible but inevitable. I think that history and nature will confirm my confidence. But in the meantime there&#8217;s a very tough fight to be fought &#8211; may humanity triumph over criminal insanity. I think it will.</p>
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		<title>By: Rehmat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Ronald Douglas Kennedy

Sorry to inform you that a recent study titled ‘The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses’, conducted by Dr. Eran Elhaik, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland - has proved that more than 90% of Jews occupying Palestine and outside Palestine - are not &quot;Smite&quot;. Only Smite people found are among the Arab Muslims and Christians.

http://rehmat1.com/2013/01/18/study-european-jews-are-not-semite/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Ronald Douglas Kennedy</p>
<p>Sorry to inform you that a recent study titled ‘The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses’, conducted by Dr. Eran Elhaik, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland &#8211; has proved that more than 90% of Jews occupying Palestine and outside Palestine &#8211; are not &#8220;Smite&#8221;. Only Smite people found are among the Arab Muslims and Christians.</p>
<p><a href="http://rehmat1.com/2013/01/18/study-european-jews-are-not-semite/" rel="nofollow">http://rehmat1.com/2013/01/18/study-european-jews-are-not-semite/</a></p>
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		<title>By: laix</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the Israeli elections are about to re-elect an even further right wing nationalist coalition government  how on earth is anything possible that you suggest? I agree with all you say, so eloquently put. Pragmatically it is not gonna fly until the right conditions are in place and by then our worst nightmares will be realised all Palestinian land will be owned occupied and destroyed by those who THINK they are entitled to the promised land, that they have spent so many years destroying!
As an activist and a visitor with friends in Palestine....I am however hopeful that PEACE will come and in a form that WE have as yet to know abput! All Palestinians need to put their shoulder to the wheel and not expect your sisters and brothers living under occupation to do all the work for yours and their liberty freedom, right of return,  and human rights! 
VIVA Palestina]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given the Israeli elections are about to re-elect an even further right wing nationalist coalition government  how on earth is anything possible that you suggest? I agree with all you say, so eloquently put. Pragmatically it is not gonna fly until the right conditions are in place and by then our worst nightmares will be realised all Palestinian land will be owned occupied and destroyed by those who THINK they are entitled to the promised land, that they have spent so many years destroying!<br />
As an activist and a visitor with friends in Palestine&#8230;.I am however hopeful that PEACE will come and in a form that WE have as yet to know abput! All Palestinians need to put their shoulder to the wheel and not expect your sisters and brothers living under occupation to do all the work for yours and their liberty freedom, right of return,  and human rights!<br />
VIVA Palestina</p>
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