14 - 20 March 2002
Issue No.577
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Al-Ahram Weekly Online 14 - 20 March 2002 Issue No.577 |
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Where racism rules
Despite the entire world, including the US, recognising that Israel is an occupying country that has no respect for international legitimacy, it remains unwilling to lend any support to Palestinian resistance and rejects any open criticisms of Israeli policy that is based on ethnic cleansing, and on the racist assumption of Jewish superiority.
It has become evident that the US position towards the Palestinian issue is unprincipled, and based on purely pragmatic calculations, at times related to its narrow economic interests in the region and at others to the strength of influence the Jewish lobby has exercised over the US administration.
The US may well dislike the Arabs and Palestinians, it may view their culture, people and political systems as much too foreign for its liking. But be that as it may, it does not provide any justification for Washington to disregard the Palestinian people's right to liberation and freedom, even if those people belong to a region for which America retains a strong aversion.
It is the Palestinians' bad luck to be part of an area that is "out of favour" with the US. Inversely, and there is a savage irony in this, it is Tel-Aviv's good luck to be part and parcel of a culture that during times of crisis has reverted to policies of ethnic cleansing, of usurping the land of others, of a virulent racism that discounts the value even of the life of those who might be somehow different. a culture that has produced, in times of crisis, Nazism, Fascism and Zionism.
* This week's Soapbox speaker is an expert at Al-Ahram's Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.
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