Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And you don't care about the Palestinians...you just want people to obsess on the "Palestinian leadership" and agree to say nothing about the Occupation or the settlements. You only talk about the Palestinian leadership because you want everybody to give the Israeli leadership a pass on everything...or worse yet, you want us pretend the Occupation and the settlements are perfectly acceptable, to accept your view that those things have nothing at all to do with the Palestinian decision to resist, and to join you in shrilly defending the status quo, which would automatically also mean we couldn't be left-of-center on any other issue. The Occupation is as right-wing as anything on the Palestinian side.
As for Egypt, I like neither Mubarak NOR the MB...but it's not as if the story is over in Egypt. The vote for the MB was, from what I've heard, a reaction to the fact that the liberal parties in Egypt weren't very supportive of working-class concerns, allowing the MB to appropriate those issues.
And, for the love of God, shira, you can't still pretend that it would have been possible to KEEP Mubarak in power, or defensible for the U.S or Israel to try. What would YOU have done...have the IDF strafe Tahrir Square? Get U.S. troops to go house-to-house in the middle of the night, Iraq-style, arresting anti-Mubarak men of military age? The ENTIRE COUNTRY wanted Mubarak out...When something gets that big, how can you just force it to come to a dead stop?