Dissident Veteran For Peace: Palestinians End Gaza Blockade

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Palestinians End Gaza Blockade

To the joy and relief of people around the world, Palestinians in Gaza took nonviolent direct action early yesterday and, for the moment, ended Israel's crushing and criminal blockade of the territory by tearing down large sections of the Israeli-constructed wall separating Gaza and Egypt. The Israelis and their Fatah collaborators were not so happy.

Next year in al-Quds!

See also "Gaza" on No Snow Here.

Labels: freedom, nonviolence, Palestine, resistance

# posted by VFPDissident @ 1/23/2008 09:23:00 PM

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Regardless of whether the Gazans were justified in blowing up the wall or not, the very act of blowing it up makes it a VIOLENT act. What happened was not a display of non-violence.

# posted by

Anonymous : Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:13:00 AM

Sorry, but I'm not buying. Controlled demolitions are used all the time to take down old buildings, bridges, walls, smoke stacks, etc. and no one calls that "VIOLENCE". The real act of violence was putting the wall up in the first place, which Israelis could only do under cover of force.

# posted by

VFPDissident : Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:54:00 PM

The Gazans didn't have much choice!
Hamas are even worse than the ZAF - Zionist Aggression Force.

# posted by

Novlangue : Friday, January 25, 2008 4:30:00 AM

It is absurd to suggest that "Hamas are even worse than the ZAF." Hamas enjoys wide popular support in Gaza (and the West Bank) and the blockade by the "ZAF" was imposed, in part, because of just that fact. Hamas also, no doubt, played a key role is bringing down the wall erected by the "ZAF".

# posted by

VFPDissident : Friday, January 25, 2008 6:33:00 PM