tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post750981878003275172..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Battered Palestinian Syndrome 2MERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-1059773036421070762011-05-17T07:36:00.505+10:002011-05-17T07:36:00.505+10:00Thanks for your comment anon, but I respectfully d...Thanks for your comment anon, but I respectfully disagree. It's not a matter of hating individual Zionists, but hating and fighting the ideology of political Zionism and all its works. I think I've marshalled enough evidence in two posts on Abuelaish to suggest that, wittingly or unwittingly, his behaviour and words lend themselves, again and again, to normatizing Israeli crimes (and criminals - his photo with Barak, for example) and furthering Zionist agendas. If you think I've misrepresented him in any of my commentary on the quotes from either the earlier book review or the GW article, I'm certainly open to correction.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-29639120248143137862011-05-17T00:13:56.266+10:002011-05-17T00:13:56.266+10:00MERC, I only rarely disagree with you, but I think...MERC, I only rarely disagree with you, but I think a man who has lost his daughters and decides not to hate the perpetrators deserves to be heard (but not necessarily agreed with). If he is a goon working for the Hasbara, it will become apparent.<br /><br />The Autobiography of Malcolm X was a revelation to me, along with Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. As an angry young black man it made sense. In retrospect however, I see anger as being a necessary step in reclaiming your sense of equal worth. Once that is achieved, the anger dissipates.<br /><br />I look at the Israeli's and acknowledge that if I had been raised in their circumstances I could have the misfortune to be behaving as hideously as they are. The same compassion that tells me that we should never sell out the Palestinians tells me that we should never hate the Zionists. Oppose them, but not hate them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com