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12/23/2002 06:35:00 AM | Jared Alessandroni Ashrawi Well, Kumar, no offense, but that was such a total convo-killer. It took my pathetic little mind like 40 minutes to figure out what it was about, and definitely some outside research. But, now I'm all over Dr. Ashrawi (that is, I get the discussion, I think). We don't think the decisive factor should be, 'This is what you can get now. Grab it or else you have nothing,'" said Ashrawi, taking a drag from a Marlboro Menthol. "We have changed the mentality of our people from the all-or-nothing equation. There are basic rights that no Palestinian will abandon. When they ask us to abandon these rights, they are asking us to negate not just our national rights but our legitimacy, our credibility. (in Motherjones) I think I knew this - the part that confused me about the Blitzes below was that no one was really that much against her. As for her being scholarly or not, I'd vote with not as well. She's a scholar, but not a political one. As for weighing in - I have to say my biggest problem with her is not her politics. It's her token-ness. I feel like having her speak for Palestine is like having me speak for Colombia, or Bush's little suck Fox speak for Mexico, or the like. She can be pissed that she was shut out of her country, just like Foxxy can have his paper-routes, but in the end, she's a rich kid who got out, never had to deal with the horrors and indignation of being a marginalized Palestinian, only an affronted one. They closed down her college a few times. Biggie. I think she is certainly an interesting if not fascinating woman, and I'd like to hear from her, but something at the back of my mind fears that she'll be passed off as one thing but really be something else. She's not Palestinian in the way we think of an oppressed Palestine, and frankly, there's little question that her class of Palestinian (economically) has been less than brotherly to its less fortunate cousins. In fact, unless they happen to be buddy buddy with Arafat, they end up on the same lists as the arrogant single-mindedly oppressive Israelis. She's not, in that case, a voice risen. On the other hand, she's not a scholar in any way of politics, law, history, or even Middle-Eastern studies. She deserves her political positions in the same way that Cheney deserves his. That is, she's not a voice of wisdom. This is to say, that besides her accomplishments, which are many, but really, given her elite upbringing and the situations into which she has been thrust, not terribly astounding, she's not really more than a media-magnet for us. She's crying Holy Holy with tears that aren't really hers. This is fine, but I think it has to be admitted. perma link |
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