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Israel-Palestine: The endless trail of red herrings

Zahir Ebrahim | 10.03.2007 04:02 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

On the Israel-Palestine issue, unraveling the endless trail of red herrings that even permeates the dissent space precluding a just solution from being perceived by the ordinary peoples in the Western nations, and thus postponing the harbinger of justice to the suffering peoples on the ground. Written in reference to the article by Israeli Peace Activist Uri Avnery on MediaMonitors on Feb 16, 2007, as well as President Carter's book Palestine, Peace not Apartheid.

The endless trail of red herrings

Zahir Ebrahim
February 28, 2007

(c) Project HumanbeingsfirstTM. Permission granted to use freely as per copyright notice.

Document ID: PHBFZE20070228 URL for this article:  http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org Discussion blog: here


In reference to the interestingly titled and revealing commentary by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery, "Facing Mecca" published by Media Monitors Network ( http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/40967) and picked up by several others including The Baltimore Chronicle on February 19, 2007, I wanted to pen my own humble thoughts down to suggest that the trail of red herrings is long, endless, and quite distinguished.

"Impracticality" due to the "existent reality on the ground" is often used as a fait accompli argument for any other resolution to the long festering Israel-Palestine blot on humanity for the suffering that it is needlessly inducing upon the indigenous peoples, except the much articulated two state abstract solution as theoretically dictated by the Israeli government and the key power brokers and vested interests allied to it. And even in this constricted solutions space, it is frequently used to nuance what is practicably realizable given the "existent reality on the ground", and what isn't.

While the world silently spectates the immense suffering that the occupation continues to bring upon an innocent peoples, the Israelis keep seeding the land with new reality on the ground which too then becomes "impractical" to undo and becomes new leveraging points in any subsequent peace talks - take 10 and give back 1 if the Palestinians behave, then repeat! This reality formally got constructed in 1948 and is continually being constructed as we speak, at each turn becoming impractical to undo requiring the victims to continually having to accommodate to the new reality for peace settlement, because true justice is now deemed "impractical".

An interesting argument, this "impracticality".

Or is it indeed also a deliberate deception and red herring of the kind related by the "Israeli Patriot" in "Facing Mecca"?

"The British call this a "red herring" - a smelly fish that a fugitive drags across the path in order to put the pursuing dogs off the trail.

Please see the rest at:  http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/endless-red-herrings.html

Zahir Ebrahim
- e-mail: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org

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All You Need To Keep In Mind

10.03.2007 23:51

I think that most world governments are complicit in this, willingly allowing Zionist Extremists to expand and create such 'facts on the ground', until they can call the Palestinians' grievances "irrelevant", and consider the matter resolved.

But here, really, is all you need to remember:

The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Published by
Jews for Justice in the Middle East

As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational "terrorists" who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes—on both sides—inevitably follow from this original injustice.

 http://www.wrmea.com/jews_for_justice/index.html

With this basic truth in mind, the world needs to formulate (and impose, if necessary) a just resolution to the conflict. And if your Government will not, topple them and create another.

This should become a non-issue, as Jews worldwide revolt against "organized Jewry", the bulk of which has been co-opted and hijacked by the Zionists. As these Jewish Opposition groups grow and evolve, politicians will come to understand that pandering to "Organized Jewry", which only represents a small and violent Minority, will only alienate the actual Jewish voters.

This Is Zionism's War To Wipe Palestine Off The Map


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