BOOKS: Refusing to be Enemies -- Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupa

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Refusing to be Enemies - Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press (Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK), 2011.

Aug. 10, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Israel has always indicated that there is no partner for peace in its relationships with the Palestinian people.

Refusing to be Enemies refutes that idea solidly through its investigation into the non-violent resistance movement taking place in Palestine and in Israel. It also clarifies the nature of the Palestinian resistance and the nature of what non-violence truly stands for. As cited from Mohammed Khatib, “what the state of Israel fears most of all is the hope that people can live together based on justice and equality for all.”

A forward by Ursula Franklin points out that “it is the violent response, the abnormal, that is recorded, and analyzed and taught.” It is also the corporate media that finds the violence agreeable to its narrative of events which for the most part, as indicated by Jeff Halper, depicts “Israel as an innocent democracy and a victim of terrorism that is simply defending itself,” rather than the reality of Israel using “occupation as a pro-active policy by an ethnocracy that is the strong party in the conflict and is engaged in ethnic cleansing.” The “lethal dynamic” of having “Palestinians resisting violently and resisting through things like suicide bombings,” supports the innocent victim narrative. It helps create inside Israel a “war culture that is perpetrating wars.”

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1. The Palestinians don't need resistance

All they need to do is get their shit together and sit down with the Israelis and negotiate.

That's what the UNSC thinks they should do and I agree.

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2. Palestinians need their own version of community organizers.

Really.

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3. they need new leadership that's for sure

The current crop are gutless wonders.