Those Were Different Times
(Caption: Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563 (Pieter Bruegel)
… Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand
Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest
And me, I’m in a rock’n’roll band
Ridin’a stutz bearcat, Jim
You know, those were different times. ~~~Sweet Jane (Lou Reed) (1970)
Israel is on a genocidal massacre and ethnic cleansing project to drive the Palestinians into Egypt (the US vetoed and gutted UN “cease fire” Resolution is a fraud) – see: Death And Destruction In Gaza (Mearsheimer, 2023)
Israel is doing that with Joe Biden’s support, encouragement, and diplomatic cover (Wolfe, 2023, 2 months before Mearsheimer), with US weapons, with US military support, with billions of US taxpayer dollars and with US media and Congress cheerleading.
[Update: Superb essay, on point:
Beyond justifying violent land theft, the conflation of Zionism and Judaism serves to delegitimise Indigenous resistance by equating any criticism of Zionism or Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians as an attack on Jews. Further, it hinders anticolonial resistance by portraying a political struggle over land and resources between occupying settlers backed by imperial forces and an Indigenous-occupied people as a supposed ancient religious “conflict” between equals.
And on Christmas.
Let that sink in.
Walk along the river, sweet lullaby
It just keep on flowing
They don’t worry ’bout where it’s goin’, no, no
Don’t fly mister blue bird
I’m just walking down the road
Early morning sunshine tell me all I need to know. Blue Sky (Allman Brothers (1972)
