Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:08:26 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eldorra=20mitchell?= <manynotone-AT-yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: If


perhaps I misread your tone. However Salman Rushdie
and the others have written about the Palestinians on
many occassions. He is of course a  supporter of them.
That is the only moral position one can take. Do
consult his essays.  

--- Wolf Factory <wolf_factory-AT-yahoo.com> wrote: >
Where exactly did Salman Rushdie et al. write /
> speak
> (?) in support of the Palestinians?
> I would be interested to read what he (they) had to
> say.
> 
> --- eldorra mitchell <manynotone-AT-yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> >  If all of the rather 'well-known' authors and
> > intellectuals had the courage to speak up and aid
> > the
> > Palestinians, as Noam Chomsky has, then perhaps
> > those
> > same intellectuals would gain the respect of
> people
> > around the world. As it is they have not, or at
> > least
> > not in these so-called lists. Now as you may know
> > there are some reasonably 'well-known' authors
> > subscribed to this list i.e. there are various
> poets
> > and translators, literary critics, philosophers
> and
> > so
> > on. Instead of a endless self-relfective belly
> > button
> > gazing series of queries and personal anecdotes
> > being
> > the norm, perhaps one could see this list, and
> > others
> > like it organizing something like a petition which
> > could be of some help to those peoples suffering
> in
> > the Occupied Territories and now even more than
> > before
> > in Israel itself. If this shall not be the case,
> > then
> > I say to you all as Deleuze did quoting Arafat,
> > "Shame
> > Shame Shame" If the only purpose then is merely to
> > see
> > one's wasted thoughts in 'print' in cyberspace,
> then
> > God help us. So do take this as a plea for action,
> > for
> > a stance to be taken against injustice and against
> > violence towards the weak and the oppressed. 
> > 
> > My suggestion is: A petition organized and written
> > by
> > the members of this list, and others on the
> various
> > Spoon collective lists that shall address the
> > situation in occupied Palestine. This does not
> need
> > to
> > be complex, it can be simple and there are many
> fine
> > writers on the various lists who I am sure could
> be
> > helpful if needed, and who would be glad to sign. 
> > 
> > Have the courage of Noam Chomsky Salman Rushdie,
> > Jacques Derrida, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
> and
> > scores of others.
> > 
> > I would be very sad if something like this cannot
> be
> > organized, and if that were to be the case, then
> one
> > can only hope than that many will sign off of
> these
> > lists. They shall have proven themselves to be
> > utterly
> > unrelated to the real struggles of real men and
> > women
> > in their daily lives. I should also imagine that
> the
> > lists will lose any moral veracity they might
> > acquire,
> > and certainly I would be most happy if they were
> to
> > lose their funding as a result.
> > 
> > I hope you are reading this dear members of the
> > Spoon
> > Collective.
> > 
> > Regards, 
> > 
> > E.M.
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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