To end the violence of the oppressed end the oppression
JVL Introduction
This thoughtful editorial from the Morning Star is an important, if difficult, contribution in the current situation. In the past many movements by oppressed peoples clamouring for freedom from the yoke of imperialism, colonialism or occupation has led to violence. South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, Vietnam are just a few examples.
While abhorring the violence, we must ask what will bring freedom? Peaceful protest? Israel shot Palestinians in large numbers for peacefully protesting at the border for their freedom. The UK government is banning calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel ; already done in many US States and some European countries. What should the Palestinians do? Remain silent so that there is “calm”? Calm for whom?
As this editorial ends “if you cannot stomach the violence of the oppressed, then halt the oppression.”
LL
This article was originally published by Morning Star on Tue 10 Oct 2023. Read the original here.
The violence of the oppressed
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What an excellent editorial. I totally agree with it.
These are figures from the United Nations Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). During the Great March of Return, Gaza 2018 214 Palestinians, including 46 children, were killed, and over 36,100, including nearly 8,800 children have been injured. One in five of those injured (over 8,000) were hit by live ammunition.
Repeat those figures – 36,100 including 8,800 children injured. Where was the outrage then? Where was the wall to wall coverage we see now because Israelis have been killed and injured? Where was the outrage at even the latest figures before the 7th of October of 44 Palestinian children killed since the start of the year. And no, this is not ‘whataboutary’ it is about the silence that this editorial so brilliantly exposes. It is about the hierarchy of outrage. It is about some being more equal than others.
I agree. What a perceptive piece, well thought through and well expressed.
I know that the following statement will not have me winning any popularity polls, but the heart of the matter of this extremely peril situation in the MO is a simple rock-bottom truth :
Since more than a century now, the indigenous People Of Palestine is being systematically and violently Ethnically Cleansed from their own Land (in a continuous Nakba) by ever-growing masses of Jewish Zionist emigrants from the West, overwhelmingly (morally, practically, financially, militarily, diplomatically and politically) assisted in this process by an evenly violent mob of reli-colonialist Christian-Zionists (*).
Actually there is a suitable term for this process of unabated terror : The Great Replacement, Le Grand Remplacement, Die Umvolkung….
For all those who might consider this abject terminology as exclusively deriving from White-supremacist ideology, I would suggest : Paradoxically there is no principle difference between the White-supremacist ideology and the Jew-Supremacist variety. After all. the foundation of a mono-ethnic State on other people’s territory, to me, seems to be an excellent example of the pathological mentality behind that Zionist movement.
Notoriously Toxic Terminology like “the Divine Covenant” [of their supposed supreme religious leader Jaweh] with “the Chosen People”, which finally will lead them to “the Promised Holy Land” is evenly hollow as trending rhetoric all over the place in religious circles, which often is being quoted in the circles concerned, in order to justify the most gruelling behaviour of the movements involved.
More in particular, I, a few topics away, already laid bare on this site, the uncomfortable relationship between the Christian-Supremacists and the Jewish-Supremacists, whereby the first do proclaim that “the second coming of Jesus” can only be realized, when “the Jews” – who according to themselves, are supposed to be still in waiting for “the coming of the Messiah” – will have to be arriving “back to Zion”,
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this is brilliant I think I will stop reading THE G or only on days when a opinion piece makes sense, But The G under present editer and Freedland is increasingly a paper that I have read on and off for over 50 yrs no longer what it was, The morning Star is something to consider at least I wont be throughing it in the bin as I quite often do with the G. It will be great to seen reading the Morning Star in the post part of Maidstone where I live. It was bad enough to be seen with The G.. its going to be fun.