Tuesday, May 20, 2008

An Arab Voice

Sometimes a member of a group that has been victimized (in this case, a “Middle Easterner, an Arab woman”) can just cut through all the academic intellectualizing of us arm-chair political scientists and see things with embarrassing clarity.

Israel is a racist, chauvinist state based on so-called Judaism. It tortures, imprisons, steals lands, ethnically cleanses, erases history, destroy homes, displaces, exiles...

Iran is a racist, chauvinist state based on so-called Shi'ism. It tortures, imprisons, steals lands, ethnically cleanses, erases history, destroys homes, displaces and exiles...


Citizens of the smug and comfortable United States of America, do not for an instant think she is letting you off the hook just because you were not specifically cited.

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