From: "Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba-AT-online.no>
Subject: AUT: Re: "east of the Mediterranean sea" 
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:13:37 +0100



"I originally stole the pretty self-evident term East
Mediterranean from Ilan and his group, " I wrote,
and meant to fill in something, as for instance this
quote:

"In the longer term Matspen adopted the position in the 60's that the
conflict between the Zionist settler colonialists and the indigenous
Palestinians can be resolved only in a socialist (i.e. libertarian
communist) Middle East and not simply by any arrangement between the Israeli
Jews and the Palestinians. The name of our new group 'East Mediterranean
Anarchist Collective' reflects this. The geographic term"east of the
Mediterranean sea" is free from any Zionist Israeli colour or Palestinian
nationalist one. It is also different from the Eurocentric term "middle
east" or "near east". As a bonus its meaning in Arabic is 'your mother'"





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