Solomonia Archive: Loyalty, Lies and Video Tape

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Here are a couple of very interesting posts for you. Judy's thoughtful post, A tale of shame and darkness, riffs-on and links to Lisa's post, Dilemma, about a Palestinian cameraman's filming of the murder of a "collaborator" and his questions over what to do with the footage.

Judy quotes Ben-Gurion (among many other things, but I wanted to pull this):

There is no compromise, no equivocation. The way of terror, or the way of Zionism, gangsterism or an organised Yishuv (community); murder from ambush and banditry in darkness, or the voluntary self-discipline of youth movements, of farmers and industrialists, a union of freedom and co-operation in argument, decision and act.

Whenever and wherever there is a self-governing community of free men, gangsters find no place. If gangsters rule -- free men are homeless.

Take up your choice -- violence and repression, or constitutional liberties...let us rise up against terror and its agencies, and smite them. The time for words are past.

There's a lot of meat here -- shades of al Durah and the sometimes difficult to untangle mix of motivations and pressures that makes Palestinian Arab society so difficult to sort.

Posted by Solomon at 2:25 PM on Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 | Comments (2)
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#1 Ben-David | December 11, 2005 5:51 AM

I certainly agree with Ben-Gurion's fine words... but at the time, things were a lot less clear - the organized Yishuv had its own clandestine militia.

Also - as soon as the State was established, the terror groups that he railed against immediately surrendered their arms and transformed themselves Jewish "terror" only lasted until a political solution was reached.

This hasn't happened over the 15 years of Oslo. Unfortunately, it seems that political solutions have only spurred further rounds of Palestinian terror.

#2 mal | December 11, 2005 8:14 AM

http://www.israpundit.com/archives/2005/12/three_exterrori.php#more