File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0309, message 199


From: "rick issan" <rick_aei-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: arafat
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 03:23:45 -0400



So, we are looking for a way to think on targeting

Arafat. How is he situated in Middle East politics

of regimes, nations, and not the so-called street?

The Saudis had supported Hamas in their opposition

of Arafat's support of Saddam throughout the 1980s

and beyond the first Persian Gulf War. What are we

to make of the Palestians in Jordan and their coup

or whatever back in their true era of nationalism?

Is Arafat greater than the Israeli situation? What

has come to great note of late is the weapons deal

between Israel and India to the dread of Pakistan.

Apparently, the US approves since it had prevented

successfully such a deal between Israel and China.

The more 'international' and simplistic a view one

has of the Arab-Israeli history/conflicts, perhaps

the more one is to associate Arafat with Palestine

and think only of 'all or nothing'. For some years

Arafat had been called 'an obstacle to peace', but

of late has been called 'a stumbling block'. To be

an obstacle is to stand against a subject at hand,

but to be a stumbling block is to just stand there

and should be overcome in the historical situation

as such. The block is in the way of a third party,

nations or whatever. The true question is all this

is whether this is to be resolved in Realpolitick,

cynical internationalism, or thought even if there

is no streetly-understood outcome. Or, does it not

seem that it has been whether the cynical thinker,

the mass appeal intellectual, who talks the street

and gives it a reality, sees his/her own street as

such a simplistic way. To whom are we think/speak?

"The stumbling block is under your hand - speeches

in which there is no man able to understand unless

he were stumbled by them." Truth cannot be simple.




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