In 1965, as coordinator of a Berkeley citizens' group against the war, I was
invited to meet with a South Vietnamese student(?) (or t.a.? or--?) in one of
those student-religious buildings by the UC campus. I thought then and still
think he was a CIA (or whichever) plant. But there was the fact that this
man was sincerely worried, what would happen to his friends, his family,
other people, decent people, without the US presence. He hardly changed my
mind; he had, however, a point.
As the Jordanian reporter cited on this list states, maybe the Palestinian
boy's televised death will remind those--and they are plenty, esp. in Europe,
and yes plenty in Israel, who think of Palestinians as virulent
whatevers--that these are people. And Israeli Jews too are real people,
with their families, etc., who are indeed afraid of military attack yet are,
in the main, aware and concerned with the effect rightwing politics has had
on Arabs (and on Jews) there.
The point being--yes, to take a stand but to do so from empathy. To do so
INFORMEDLY, too. I wonder--and am curious whether Bill or Carroll
know--ARE there Israelis/Israeli groups currently working against Israeli
army violence? and if so, how do we learn of them?
Shana Tova.
Paula
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