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4;ής ο Brian Eno
By: National Bolshevik Date: July 25, 2016, 4:01 pm
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Dear All of You:
I sense I'm breaking an unspoken rule with this letter, but I
can't keep quiet any more.
Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a
plastic carrier bag of meat. It was his son. He'd been shredded
(the hospital's word) by an Israeli missile attack - apparently
using their fab new weapon, flechette bombs. You probably know
what those are - hundreds of small steel darts packed around
explosive which tear the flesh off humans. The boy was Mohammed
Khalaf al-Nawasra. He was 4 years old.
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I suddenly found myself thinking that it could have been one of
my kids in that bag, and that thought upset me more than
anything has for a long time.
Then I read that the UN had said that Israel might be guilty of
war crimes in Gaza, and they wanted to launch a commission into
that. America won't sign up to it.
What is going on in America? I know from my own experience how
slanted your news is, and how little you get to hear about the
other side of this story. But - for Christ's sake! - it's not
that hard to find out. Why does America continue its blind
support of this one-sided exercise in ethnic cleansing? WHY? I
just don't get it. I really hate to think its just the power of
AIPAC… for if that's the case, then your government really is
fundamentally corrupt. No, I don't think that's the reason… but
I have no idea what it could be.
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The America I know and like is compassionate, broadminded,
creative, eclectic, tolerant and generous. You, my close
American friends, symbolise those things for me. But which
America is backing this horrible one-sided colonialist war? I
can't work it out: I know you're not the only people like you,
so how come all those voices aren't heard or registered? How
come it isn't your spirit that most of the world now thinks of
when it hears the word 'America'? How bad does it look when the
one country which more than any other grounds its identity in
notions of Liberty and Democracy then goes and puts its money
exactly where its mouth isn't and supports a ragingly racist
theocracy?
I was in Israel last year with Mary. Her sister works for UNWRA
in Jerusalem. Showing us round were a Palestinian - Shadi, who
is her sister's husband and a professional guide - and Oren
Jacobovitch, an Israeli Jew, an ex-major from the IDF who left
the service under a cloud for refusing to beat up Palestinians.
Between the two of them we got to see some harrowing things -
Palestinian houses hemmed in by wire mesh and boards to prevent
settlers throwing **** and **** and used sanitary towels at the
inhabitants; Palestinian kids on their way to school being
beaten by Israeli kids with baseball bats to parental applause
and laughter; a whole village evicted and living in caves while
three settler families moved onto their land; an Israeli
settlement on top of a hill diverting its sewage directly down
onto Palestinian farmland below; The Wall; the checkpoints… and
all the endless daily humiliations. I kept thinking, "Do
Americans really condone this? Do they really think this is OK?
Or do they just not know about it?".
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As for the Peace Process: Israel wants the Process but not the
Peace. While 'the process' is going on the settlers continue
grabbing land and building their settlements… and then when the
Palestinians finally erupt with their pathetic fireworks they
get hammered and shredded with state-of-the-art missiles and
depleted uranium shells because Israel 'has a right to defend
itself' ( whereas Palestine clearly doesn't). And the settler
militias are always happy to lend a fist or rip up someone's
olive grove while the army looks the other way. By the way, most
of them are not ethnic Israelis - they're 'right of return' Jews
from Russia and Ukraine and Moravia and South Africa and
Brooklyn who came to Israel recently with the notion that they
had an inviolable (God-given!) right to the land, and that
'Arab' equates with 'vermin' - straightforward old-school racism
delivered with the same arrogant, shameless swagger that the
good ole boys of Louisiana used to affect. That is the culture
our taxes are defending. It's like sending money to the Klan.
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But beyond this, what really troubles me is the bigger picture.
Like it or not, in the eyes of most of the world, America
represents 'The West'. So it is The West that is seen as
supporting this war, despite all our high-handed talk about
morality and democracy. I fear that all the civilisational
achievements of The Enlightenment and Western Culture are being
discredited - to the great glee of the mad Mullahs - by this
flagrant hypocrisy. The war has no moral justification that I
can see - but it doesn't even have any pragmatic value either.
It doesn't make Kissingerian 'Realpolitik' sense; it just makes
us look bad.
I'm sorry to burden you all with this. I know you're busy and in
varying degrees allergic to politics, but this is beyond
politics. It's us squandering the civilisational capital that
we've built over generations. None of the questions in this
letter are rhetorical: I really don't get it and I wish that I
did.
Brian Eno
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