tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529780966234338585.post5254281433398077868..comments2023-09-04T04:39:57.325-07:00Comments on SoJourn(al): Private Dreams to Public Art: Dreams of Palestine: A Transitioning People, An Ephemeral MindRusty Kjarvikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03071547323352880050noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529780966234338585.post-88207099408963077102012-09-09T07:26:36.777-07:002012-09-09T07:26:36.777-07:00The words can barely keep up with the passion, and...The words can barely keep up with the passion, and I like that, most races are fixed to have words win by a stretch.<br /><br />I remember reading about Menachem Begin informing President Jimmy Carter that Israel is disposing of its Palestinian problem the same way America disposed of its Indian problem, so (essentially) leave us the fuck alone with your righteous indignation (but keep your welfare checks flowing of course, for we'd die without them). It was strange on many levels, of course, for these Nobel Peace Prize winners to be so undiplomatic in public, but the most surreal thing to me was how conveniently wrong the analogy is. The suffering, the methods, the attitudes are, as you note, exactly the same, but these are brothers squabbling, with the older bully pulling rank and the younger clever one making a cause out of being a victim (I stretch the analogy to make a point). We are being asked like a parent to look the other way while the older brother gouges the younger brothers eyes out, because, after all, the parents fucked them up in the first place. The native experience in the Americas was of different paradigms meeting, hard to call it even a war there was so much distance in perception, and the land so vast was so terrifying to one, and the power of the machines so vast was so heartbreaking for the other. But the ancient ones could go because they had locked in the codes. The Palestinians, if we can conclude anything, are not leaving the Levant. They will remind us for quite some time of the consequences of the casual brutality brought on by man's low self-esteem. WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com