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. ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- text/html (html body -- converted) --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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