http://warincontext.org/2008/05/23/editorial-the-question-of-zionism/ ... with attention to the unseen Wed, 23 May 2012 19:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://warincontext.org/2008/05/23/editorial-the-question-of-zionism/comment-page-1/#comment-2171 Carol Elkins Sat, 24 May 2008 10:43:29 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=1101#comment-2171 "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" should be required reading. The role of the Arabs in winning the first world war, the promises Lawrence was given to make to them in order to bring them in, the understanding of their workings which Lawrence acquired and described, and then the final betrayal of Lawrence and the Arabs by the British government, as it had been hijacked by the Zionist movement-- all of these things should arouse in us the pity and terror that all great tragedies arouse. We have to stop identifying "racism" as the provenance of WASPs, and start identifying it as a universal. Black racism against whites and against different shades of brown is a huge problem, as is Jewish racism against Arabs, and everybody else, and everybody else against everybody else. And then, everybody against monkeys, rodents, and insects. “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” should be required reading. The role of the Arabs in winning the first world war, the promises Lawrence was given to make to them in order to bring them in, the understanding of their workings which Lawrence acquired and described, and then the final betrayal of Lawrence and the Arabs by the British government, as it had been hijacked by the Zionist movement– all of these things should arouse in us the pity and terror that all great tragedies arouse. We have to stop identifying “racism” as the provenance of WASPs, and start identifying it as a universal. Black racism against whites and against different shades of brown is a huge problem, as is Jewish racism against Arabs, and everybody else, and everybody else against everybody else. And then, everybody against monkeys, rodents, and insects.

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