From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: palestinian anarchy (was carp's need for attention)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:46:32 +0100




"Maldoror" wrote


> i know this after talking to my wife who has met many
> palestinians in her home country of tunisia. so for
> this ever-intelligent carp who thinks he knows
> everything by making statements like 'middle-eastern
> anarchists' are missing from dialogues he is flatly
> WRONG, though i'm sure he's too arrogant and
> 'informed' to ever admit that.


"Middle-eastern anarchists" may be missing from 
the dialogue on the anarchy list, but this is not
true of other anarchist discussion lists. A Palestinian 
anarchist, resident in the Middle East, has, for 
several years now, been one of the most prolific 
participants in the Organise list ("for class struggle 
anarchism"). I have had big disagreements with him 
in the past (well like I said he is a prolific participant 
in a list that I'm also on, and that almost gaurantees 
getting into a big disagreement with me at some point) 
but these disagreements were not about Palestine 
or the Middle East. 

At one point he and an Israeli anarchist on the Organise
list got into a heated disagreement. This was at least
partly about the very fact that the Israeli anarchist
_called himself_  an Israeli anarchist (thus appearing,
in Palestinian eyes, to legitimise the concept of "Israel").
But these were people who, in other ways, actually 
agreed with each other on an awful lot of things. 


Dave Coull