Gaza will be the grave of the Western-led world order
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Harrow, Kenneth
"And yet, the reaction of Western governments – besides seemingly limitless military and political support – has been to label any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism and attempt to ban outright any expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people."
he modifies his Limitless, acknowledging his absolute claims are wrong: "Desperate to regain some semblance of credibility, Western governments (including the US) have recently started to be marginally critical of Israeli attacks. However, it is too little, too late. Western credibility has been shredded irrevocably."
desperate to regain credibility fromwhom?? this is silliness, not credible critique.
one can share his horror at what is happening in gaza, but the totalizing expressions about the west are too absolute. we need another level of analysis to make sense of this.
he carries on: "Of course, Western hypocrisy is nothing new. According to Western governments, the world should be up in arms about Russian aggression but should be perfectly happy with Israeli brutality and flouting of international norms."
perfectly happy? what universe does he inhabit? he reduces the west and its govts to a boogeyman, a straw target, that we should all condemn, leaving us asking, is this a world of such pure good and evil, so easily divided into victims and executioners?
we need another approach to condemning what israel is doing without such reductive thinking which undermines our critiques
ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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In Gaza, the situation is getting uglier by the second. Today, Monday the death toll: 25, 105 souls.
In the West Bank, the demolition of Palestinian homes continues, Since the 7th of October 6,200 able-bodied Palestinians, some of them children, have been detained
Of course, it goes without saying, and without having to invoke The First Amendment, Professor Saul J Takahashi who is supposed to know better, is entitled to publish in Al Jazeera, opinions that Professor Harrow has to some extent demonstrated to be “tendentious, or worse, unnuanced and ultimately not true.”
Nevertheless, I’d like to make the following legitimate observation and ask what I hope also qualifies from (Professor Harrow’s point of view) as a legitimate question:
Professor asks, “ isn't biden's govt pressing netanyahu to stop bombing civilians?”
Really? Or is it all just a hypocritical public show, this election year?
It does not ring true that the Biden-Blinken Administration that's financing Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in the occupied territories should experience any difficulty bringing Israel to heel. It doesn’t sound quite right that when Biden allegedly tells Netanyahu to de-escalate in Gaza Netanyahu tells Biden to go screw himself