allan siegel via nettime-l on Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:16:58 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> silence on Palestine? 

Hello,
If you want to bring balance to the discussion then one should be a little less arbitrary in defining a timeline. Perhaps the collapse of the Ottoman Empire might be useful; or the results of the Balfour declaration and the manipulations of British and French colonialists; MI6 and CIA overthrowing the democratically elected regime in Iran. Of course some Arab hands are not clean but open your eyes a little wider please. And don’t forget the Iraq war… that’s also part of the political landscape.
Best
Allan

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 08:01, Rahul Goswami via nettime-l wrote:
> 
> I present a few points here to bring balance to the subject:
> 
> 1. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, 
> known as the Partition Plan. Acceptance of the Partition Plan would have 
> meant the establishment of two states, but the surrounding Arab 
> countries and the local Arab population vehemently rejected the proposal.
> 
> 2. After the May 1948 war, Israel (other Western countries too) 
> immediately absorbed Jewish refugees. Palestinian refugees were placed 
> in camps and kept there generation after generation as a matter of Arab 
> policy. Israel withdrew entirely from Gaza in 2005, but there are still 
> eight UN-run refugee camps there. Why should there be? Gaza is 
> completely under Palestinian control. But dismantling the camps would 
> mean removing symbols of Palestinian “resistance”.
> 
> 3. During the 1990-91 Gulf War, Kuwait expelled over 300,000 
> Palestinians working in the country when Yasser Arafat supported Saddam 
> Hussein. The Palestinians were seen as a likely fifth column. There was 
> scant objection from other Arab countries, or pro-Palestine voices in 
> the West, about the expulsion.
> 
> Rahul Goswami
> 
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