Daybreak: U.S. Slams Building

re: The new Israel “peace” plan

Mr. Tracy, you vision is badly skewed. Mainstream? Definitely. Centrist? No way. Danny Yatom did a stint as a Labor Party MK and was viewed as being of the left-end of the party. Ya’akov Perry was also known for his left wing views. Rabin’s daughter is known for her rather left wing views even though she was an MK from the short-lived Center Party (political parties come and go in Israel). Rabin’s son (who basically lives in the USA, but visits Israel to vote & pontificate) does oscillate on a left wing – center axis. I guess 1 out of 4 ain’t bad.

But the real problem is that their plan is divorced from reality. As the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl reported in his epiphanous interview of Abu Mazen two years ago, the Pals already turned down essentially either this plan or a more generous plan that was offered to him by Olmert. Abu Mazen explained that the offer was too far from anything the Pals would accept to even consider making a counter-offer. So why do they think it would work now? This is an instantiation of Einstein’s definition of insanity.

Also, the ostensible “Great White Hope” (to terminally delusional Oslo Accordians) of Israeli politics, Tzippy Livni, was horrified by Olmert’s offer and insisted she would would never concede as much in negotiations with the Pals. So why bother?

Regarding Syria & the Golan, ex-Gen’l Uri Saguy, who more than anyone else is identified with giving up the Golan in exchange for a peace agreement with Syria, conceded in a radio interview that offering the Golan now to an unstable Syria, with a real chance that the Muslim Brotherhood and / or an al Qaeda affiliate will gain power is not wise to put it mildly.

I might also add that a number of centrist scholars (real ones) insist that the first thing the Syrians would do in the Golan would be to move in a million or so civilians, setting up a massive Goldstone trap from which they could freely lob rockets at Israel.

Once was enough.

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Does Julian Schnabel have anything to say about the terrorist murder of one of his actors, apart from the obligatory statement from his PR rep?

This is insanity, these schoolyard politics. Attack & retaliation. Trash talking, name calling & finger pointing. Promises made, promises broken. Threats both loud & covert, buzzing around like hives of blinded bees. This, people, is the inevitable result of patriarchal social devolution. There are alternatives to aggression & violence that are not based on power over & domination. And I am NOT addressing these words to Israel or any other country, but to all the individuals who are stuck, trapped really, in a universe of the mind that has no room for such non-macho ideas like compassion, lovingkindness, peaceful conflict resolution.

Question: which is more holy–the land or the people?

I’ve said this before & I’ll keep saying it: All men with social, national, economic & political decision-making power, step down. Stay home. Shut up. I mean it. Women– immediately withdraw your support & participation from patriarchy enabling institutions. It is time for us to run the show. We need to make compassion, non-aggreesion, nurturing, forgiveness, equal access to resources GLOBAL priorities. No more violence, no more wars. Impossible? Then we better get started right away. I urge all women to study the ways in which testoserone-fueled thinking have shaped our societies. Form committees, think tanks, consciousness raising groups, political parties, schools, curricula & whatever else you can think of to de-rail this out of control, millennia-old juggernaut of destruction followed by more destruction. There are options. Let us find them.
With love for all,
Shalom.
Amoja Three Rivers

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