Friday, February 12, 2010
Displacing the living and the dead: that is Zionism
"For all its sanctimoniousness, the center now presides over a big hole from  which scores of bones have been unearthed. Those remains were disinterred  without respect. As Suleimani put it: "The Muslim dead have no one to defend  them." It is not, however, too late to safeguard the rest of those as yet  undisturbed.   In wanting to lay the dead to rest, however, we should  think also of the living. Displacing living people -- something Israel does  every single day -- is hardly any better than displacing dead ones. And this  disgraceful episode is only part of a much longer history of displacement and  dispossession dating to 1948."