“Hamas is no rogue militant group, with anonymous, shadowy operators. It will not disappear or shirk its leadership responsibility. It remains an authentic and powerful part of the Palestinian people, for over thirty years… much older than some of the current Israeli political parties in the Knesset. While many of its founders, all those years ago, have been killed by Israel, Hamas continues to speak on behalf of the dignity and hope of millions of Palestinians worldwide. Like them, it carries the kindle of resilience and self-determination of a People rendered stateless but neither hopeless nor powerless by a European colonial project. Like them, it will not cease to exist or fade into silence.”
Stanley L. Cohen
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{Originally published May 10, 2019)
The Enemy is not Resistance
The Islamic Resistance Movement began more than thirty years ago at an historical moment in time which it knew to be fraught with absolute peril for their people. The founders of this national liberation struggle examined the overwhelming military capabilities of Israel, fostered by its global superpower sponsor, the United States. They looked at Israel’s expansionist programs… the Zionist project of illegal settlements erasing their homes and villages, dispossessing mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers… and at the failure of the international community to stop them. They knew then, that within a generation Palestinians would lose it all … their motherland and patrimony and their nation… leaving them homeless captives to the whims of another man’s door. In that moment, resistance was not a lifestyle choice or a revolutionary pose. It was existential necessity, just as it is now.
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Hi Bill I was so intrigued by your best new friend I contacted him by email.
He seems to know things that have completely escaped me.
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Hello Mikel, I’ve been writing about Stanley Cohen since November 2015:
https://billziegler1947.com/2015/11/15/i-stanley-cohen/
As you know, I read every link you send me, in the hope of learning “things that have completely escaped me.” I would be grateful for knowing which things completely escaped *you* — at least the snark-free stuff. 🙂
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