Greetings, Prof. TF:
The good news is that in this country, and many parts of the world, many are beginning to see -- especially in this instance -- the biased, decadent, and inequitable nature of hegemonic power. Many of us don't always speak up because our time and voices are needed elsewhere. But when injustice, bias, and abuse are this obvious and heart-wrenching, we must.
It is in the interest of the US and the interest of the international system to have a peaceful and flourishing Middle East. This cannot be achieved when the violated, the abused, and the dehumanized are told to shut up and "get with the system." Unfortunately, a weak UN has allowed this to go on and on and on.
Not many people know how bad things are for the Palestinians. For every innocent Israeli that is killed, some thirty-five or more innocent Palestinians are killed; homes bulldozed, and lands confiscated; and untold numbers are deprived of their human rights and civil liberties. How is that right, how is that just?
Sabella O. Abidde
It seems to me, as a student of conflict resolution, that the Israeli-Palestinian war is about to mimic the hundred years' war between England and France over territorial rights, et cetera (actually, it is said to have lasted from 1337-1453–i.e. 116 years).
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! (The Temptations)
Ike Udogu
--On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:47 AM Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:--My recollection is that the term terror/terrorists began with bush at 9/11. Sure, it existed before, but he created the phrase "war on terror." Since then the term has expanded geometrically so that now all regimes in the world label their opposition "terrorists." It is a means of authenticating those in power, as toyin says, delegitimizing opposition, and thus undermining political systems that permit oppositional politics, i.e. democracies. It is basically antidemocratic by permitting those in power to define those who do not legitimately oppose their power.Remember, how in the older days when we espoused revolution more enthusiastically, another term came to be used, or set of terms. They were defined around "state" as in "state terrorism," where the state permitting itself to perform acts it denied to individual groups, typically oppositional groups. Close to that were "raisons d'etat," or the state's rationalizations for its actions, or kissinger's realpolitik, another form of raison d'etat.The united states supported israel, but not unconditionally because it also wanted saudi oil, not to mention iraqi or iranian or uae etc oil. It supported, and continues to support egypt, with billions in military aid annually. It had a middle eastern policy, not just an israeli policy, and israel, after all, has no oil, only jews with a jewish lobby in the u.s. that did not prevent trump's election, and ultimately supported trump.Already i've read of biden opposing an israeli invasion of gaza; the u.s.is not automatically pro netanyahu.Recall trump's son in law making deals with the saudis….Ken
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Hegemonic power is framed in moral terms: power is moral; challenges to power is immoral. Whatever power does is regarded as moral. Power then defines challenges to it in amoral terms as in terrorism. Critics of power are then labeled: anti US/anti-order, anarchists. And what you wrote below, to power, is treated as out of order. And to defenders of power, they ask: "why did you leave your shit-hole country to teach us what to do?' Hegemonic power, historically, has always been dangerous.
TF
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