The Vigilante State

“…for the last forty years, our thought has been trapped in hollow structures of language, a stale, dead but immensely successful rhetoric. This has represented, in my view, a defeat of the intelligence and of the will.” — Harold Pinter Ali Abunimah’s brief on Collective Punishment and Collective Impunity in Israel, for the Palestine Center Information. The blood of the victims is screaming out at us; the blood of the innocent is calling on all of us to wake up; to make the Arabs of east Jerusalem realize that terrorism comes with a price. A painful price. A price paid by the terrorist’s family, his relatives, brothers, and brothers-in-law. The above quote was written by an Israeli journalist in the largest circulation daily Yediot Aharonot a day after Hussam Dwaiyat, a 30-year-old Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem,... [read full story]