Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:12:24 +0200
From: Ilan Shalif <gshalif-AT-netvision.net.il>
Subject: Re: AUT: Imperialism = main contradiction?


Hi People

Michael Handelman wrote:

> Have you seen the Aufheben article on Israel?

 Aufheben 10 article on Israel is based on lot of pseudo facts,
wrong interpretation, and sloppy work.

There are enough libertarian communist texts originated in
the region and in Israel. It is easy to contact libertarian communist
activists of the region. It smells as if the authors drew to their lungs
Lambartists smoke while writing the text.

I sent to the list first part of that article with notes remarking
the most obvious inaccuracies.... but it seems no one was interested.
a big miss

> "Behind the 20st century Intifada"
>
> http://www.wildcat-www.de/en/material/aufh10b.htm
>
> --- Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > There has been enough anti-anti-imperialist rhetoric
> > on this list to fill the Marianna Trench. It all
> > sounds frightfully radical and pure, but it never
> > includes anything relevant to actual political
> > practice. For instance, nobody on this list has been
> > able to formulate any demands based on the
> > anti-anti-imperialist perspective applicable to
> > Palestine today.

There was in the long years - at least since the establishment
of the Libertarian Communist organization of Israel, (Matspen, 1962)
the position that only (libertarian) social revolution in the whole region
will be able to solve the conflict.

> > Most of the left calls for one or another type of
> > Palestinian state in the Holy land; the best parts
> > of
> > the left call for the destruction of Israel and the
> > establishment of a secular Palestine in its place.

It depends how you define "left". The real internationalist
left have no such illusion. The real left knows and call for social
revolution of the all region as the only viable solution.
Sections of the PLO (and opportunist Trotskists and Maoists) are
the ones that was of the destruction opinion in the past and are
funs of the two state solution. (Surprise surprise, the more pragmatic
of the naZionists are also promoting the two state solution... just not
really equal ones in any sense.

The separation between the West of the Jordan tinny region
and Gaza strip from the Palestinian regions East side of the jordan
was just one of the compromises of the PLO and other Palestinian
organizations.


> > What is the anti-anti-imperialist alternative to the
> > call for the establishment of a Plaestinian state? I
> > have asked this question before, but never received
> > an
> > answer.

It seems people do not like my texts as I mentioned at leas
once.

The fact that a Palestinian mini state is on the way is clear.
The fact that a capitalist (or more probably imperialist) peace
is on the way - is not in question either. How stinking will be
the solution and how much Israel will continue to dominate
the tinny Palestinian statelet is still not clear.

> > Political theory is useless unless it can
> > sponsor some sort of political practice - where is
> > the
> > anti-anti-imperialist practice, in relation to
> > Palestine? Where is the solidarity, and where are
> > the
> > demands?

It is all over the world at least since 1962. Like the achievement
of libertarian communism it is not achievable in completion
within the capitalist system... but struggle and some victories
can be achieved on the way. The call and struggle for the end of Israeli
occupation of the 1967 occupied territories, the call and struggle for equal
rights to the Palestinian citizens of Israel, the call and struggle for
the rights of the Palestinian refugees - are the expression of this solidarity.

You do not need a special Anti Anti Imperialist theory to draw from the
proper elements. It just need common sense when applying the
principles of Equality & Freedom & Solidarity.

We did not had in the past or present any problem in drawing on
the same lines support for the working people who are victims of
murderous "nationalist" harassment in our region - the Palestinians,
the Kurds (mainly) or the East Timorians and Serilanka Tamils, the "Catholics"
in Northern Ireland, the ex-Yugoslavians (including Cosovo)... and the
indigenous (first nations) in the other parts of the world.
Ilan
EMAC (East Mediterranean Anarchist Collective in construction)
http://www.shalif.com/anarchy/
http://www.shalif.com/psychology/
Tel-Aviv 61132 ISRAEL (Occupied Palestain)

Please visit
http://www.matzpun.com/
http://www.petitiononline.com/ssc2001/petition.html




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