Speaking of Australia and Palestine: http://australiansforpalestine.com/44770#more-44770
“They are extraordinary scenes. Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on Sunday when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-man’s land to one of the most heavily protected borders in the world, the one separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: “This is what liberation looks like.”
Unlike previous years, this Nakba Day was not simply a commemoration of the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948, when their homeland was forcibly reinvented as the Jewish state. It briefly reminded Palestinians that, despite their long-enforced dispersion, they still have the potential to forge a common struggle against Israel.
As Israel violently cracked down on Sunday’s protests on many fronts – in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and on the borders with Syria and Lebanon – it looked less like a military superpower and more like the proverbial boy with his finger in the dam.
The Palestinian “Arab Spring” is arriving and Israel has no diplomatic or political strategy to deal with it. Instead on Sunday, Israel used the only weapon in its current arsenal – brute force – against unarmed demonstrators... ”
Also found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mideaststra...080157825/ (re: R.G. Casey—later in the book Fieldhouse notes Palestine was the British Empire's biggest failure of its kind, “the first time that Britain ended its rule without leaving an
established government behind it” [pp. 344-5])
@liosama - Are you familiar with the works of Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gundre Frank, etc.? Interesting stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_approach
Related: http://www.amazon.com/Camel-Wheel-Mornin...023107235X
Anyway, hopefully everyone's done insulting countries and cursing at one another, I just wanted to post some relevant and interesting links/references.
“They are extraordinary scenes. Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on Sunday when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-man’s land to one of the most heavily protected borders in the world, the one separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: “This is what liberation looks like.”
Unlike previous years, this Nakba Day was not simply a commemoration of the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948, when their homeland was forcibly reinvented as the Jewish state. It briefly reminded Palestinians that, despite their long-enforced dispersion, they still have the potential to forge a common struggle against Israel.
As Israel violently cracked down on Sunday’s protests on many fronts – in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and on the borders with Syria and Lebanon – it looked less like a military superpower and more like the proverbial boy with his finger in the dam.
The Palestinian “Arab Spring” is arriving and Israel has no diplomatic or political strategy to deal with it. Instead on Sunday, Israel used the only weapon in its current arsenal – brute force – against unarmed demonstrators... ”
Also found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mideaststra...080157825/ (re: R.G. Casey—later in the book Fieldhouse notes Palestine was the British Empire's biggest failure of its kind, “the first time that Britain ended its rule without leaving an
established government behind it” [pp. 344-5])
@liosama - Are you familiar with the works of Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gundre Frank, etc.? Interesting stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_approach
Related: http://www.amazon.com/Camel-Wheel-Mornin...023107235X
Anyway, hopefully everyone's done insulting countries and cursing at one another, I just wanted to post some relevant and interesting links/references.
Edited: 2011-05-22, 11:58 am
