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Although this is obviously an emotional topic for many people right now in the middle of the Israeli siege, the responses do point to some fundamental mis-understandings that the left here in the US holds in terms of the political terrain in the Middle East.<BR/><BR/>-max<BR/><BR/>---------------<BR/><BR/>1st (short) comment:<BR/><BR/>Personally I don't see denouncing Israel's attacks as a case of supporting the "enemy's enemy". At the current sitaution, it seems Hizbullah is the only entity that is in any way capable of defending Lebanon from the Israeli onslaught. In my view, this particular struggle of theirs is surely worthy of support.<BR/><BR/>For people in the US, whether Hizbullah constitutes a "positive political force" or not is really of no consequence. This is not a good and evil situation, but surely one of survival for people in Lebanon who<BR/>are being relentlessly attacked. <BR/><BR/>In any case, as long as people in the US are quietly arming Israel to the teeth with their tax money to continue the annihilation of the countries around it, they have no right to judge what constitutes "positive political force".<BR/><BR/>pranjal<BR/><BR/>-----------------<BR/><BR/>(2nd comment)<BR/><BR/>Amen Pranjal. It's good to hear that those on the left outside of the US aren't afflicted by the Islamophobia that's so prevalent and deep seated among the left in the US. I think this Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism help explain why the left/progressives/antiwar movement has been so weak in terms of resisting the US and Israel's wars and occupations in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, and now Lebanon.<BR/><BR/>Hence you have a situation where several massacres have been committed in a short period of time by Israel with the full support, both material and moral, of the US (if it's true that there are still 30 people buried under the rubble in Srifa then the numbers killed there could exceed the 40 killed in Qaa in the Bekaa today and come close to the number killed in Qana...this doesn't include the Palestinians being killed daily) and yet there isn't massive demonstrations and civil disobedience or direct action. <BR/> <BR/>This article is a good example of what's wrong with left in this country. It's not as much the islamphobia as the total disconnection with reality. First of all, most US leftist and antiwar groups have not in fact abstained from criticizing Hizbullah. To the contrary, almost all have condemned both Hizbullah and Israel as if they are some equal players in this struggle. That's the problem, hence the massacres and no real massive response. The whole my enemy's enemy thing only reinforces passivity and inaction because it leads a large number of americans who may not support Israel to conclude that Hizbullah is not worth supporting either.<BR/> <BR/>In terms of showing how Hizbullah is not some right wing reactionary force (not that it's left wing either), I am writing an article in the next issue of Left Turn which addresses this. But Bilal's article on the Shia, http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=959&type=W, and primer on<BR/>Hizbullah by MERIP that was recently posted to this listserv, <BR/>http://www.merip.org/mero/mero073106.html, also address this.<BR/> <BR/>Secondly, the fact that the writer uses the positions of the Sparticist League and Workers World to make his/her point is not only an example of this disconnection with reality but the weakness, inwardness, and isolation of the left (I mean, come on, the Sparts?). It's almost comical when you think about how much this tiny, weak American left sitting on the sidelines and theorizing about this whole ridiculous enemy's enemy thing (which I'm sure is applied to the resistance in Iraq as well) while these people put up some incredible resistance to the most powerful and reactionary forces the world. <BR/> <BR/>But nothing captures the detachment and, to a certain extent, inhumanity better than the contrast between Pranjal's refressing response and the cold calculations of the article itself. Anyone who can sit around and take the time to write somethign like this at a time when the only thing between the total ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and Lebanese are Hamas and Hizbullah should be thoroughly exposed.<BR/> <BR/>Ramimaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09205775103393806511noreply@blogger.com