Thank you for this....it helps dull the horror I am feeling as Canada falls in line with American warhawks and abstains from voting for a cease fire.....because the resolution won't write in an amendment calling Hamas a 'terrorist organization'.
As if we in Canada know what a terrorist is......never having experienced dispossession oursel…
Thank you for this....it helps dull the horror I am feeling as Canada falls in line with American warhawks and abstains from voting for a cease fire.....because the resolution won't write in an amendment calling Hamas a 'terrorist organization'.
As if we in Canada know what a terrorist is......never having experienced dispossession ourselves.
Of course, we could ask our indigenous people to help us understand terrorism...but they've lived through it already and are too generous a people to point out to us why for White first worlders, the terrorist is always 'the other'.
You are right of course......there is no way to a lasting solution through war. But if my country stands by tongue tied and dumbfounded while a genocide is committed in Gaza....justified by calling the political leadership of that country terrorists.........I honestly fear I may give up all hope for my grandkids.
So again, thank you for writing so clearly............and for reminding us both of the horror of the Iraq War, and of that earlier atrocity, America's invasion of the Philippines. The American Empire is rarely a liberator of anything but other folks land and wealth......but let's not call them Terrorists.
Thank you for this....it helps dull the horror I am feeling as Canada falls in line with American warhawks and abstains from voting for a cease fire.....because the resolution won't write in an amendment calling Hamas a 'terrorist organization'.
As if we in Canada know what a terrorist is......never having experienced dispossession ourselves.
Of course, we could ask our indigenous people to help us understand terrorism...but they've lived through it already and are too generous a people to point out to us why for White first worlders, the terrorist is always 'the other'.
You are right of course......there is no way to a lasting solution through war. But if my country stands by tongue tied and dumbfounded while a genocide is committed in Gaza....justified by calling the political leadership of that country terrorists.........I honestly fear I may give up all hope for my grandkids.
So again, thank you for writing so clearly............and for reminding us both of the horror of the Iraq War, and of that earlier atrocity, America's invasion of the Philippines. The American Empire is rarely a liberator of anything but other folks land and wealth......but let's not call them Terrorists.
That could be considered dangerous rhetoric!