Dignity, my ass
Aug. 26th, 2011 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arpad.
Word of the decade was "dignity". Return "dignity" to post-colonial nations. Give "dignity" to poor oppressed communities. And so on and so forth.
Something always bothered me there. Something was wrong.
Lucky, I live in Israel and finally I understood.
Our Arab neighbors are talking a lot about "being their own masters". What they omit is that in their world masters must have slaves.
This modern "dignity" was never about freedom - it was about dominance.
Word of the decade was "dignity". Return "dignity" to post-colonial nations. Give "dignity" to poor oppressed communities. And so on and so forth.
Something always bothered me there. Something was wrong.
Lucky, I live in Israel and finally I understood.
Our Arab neighbors are talking a lot about "being their own masters". What they omit is that in their world masters must have slaves.
This modern "dignity" was never about freedom - it was about dominance.
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Date: 2011-09-25 12:59 pm (UTC)А я-то никак не могла сообразить, как укладывается в единую точку зрения желание палестинцев быть свободными и какая-то нелогичная уверенность в том, что это возможно только при условии уничтожения Израиля.
Провести, может, массовую психотерапию посттравматических состояний для палестинских арабов? Чтобы они изжили эту травму, в конце концов.
Может, тогда речи израильских и арабских политиков не будут напоминать разговоры слепого с глухим.