What Did Amal’s Life Buy for You?
Until this very moment, I think I’ve believed that all human life was equally worthy, that no-one has more of a right to be here than anyone else, that no-one has the right to pass judgment on the value of another human life. When I saw the news that Amal Hussain – the seven-year-old Yemeni girl whose photo in the New York Times had drawn attention to the war-induced famine in Yemen – had died, and looked at the photo of her face, I realized that I don’t believe that at all. Amal Hussain’s life was worth a million times more than the lives of the people who recklessly and completely selfishly inflicted the violence that caused her death.
This is not a partisan issue. This isn’t Trump (even though it is), it’s not Obama or Hillary (even though it was), and it’s not Bush (even though it was.) This is the machine called the nation state, and it will go on turning other parts of the world into graveyards, giving birth to massive refugee crises, and spawning new generations of “terrorists” who seek collectivist revenge on the innocent people of our countries, just as those who rule our countries murder innocents in theirs.
If you still don’t get it, here’s the point: It is not nation against nation, or race against race, or religion against religion. It is all of humanity against the violent nation state.
And if you still want to believe in the goodness or the necessity of the nation state, then ask yourself why. Ask yourself why whatever it is you think you stand to gain from the state is worth THIS. Why it is worth the senseless, needless death of this beautiful child.
For fuck’s sake.
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Atlas... November 7, 2018 , 11:50 pm Vote0
TERROR AS DECEPTION…
Terror is theatre…Theatre’s a con trick. Do you know what that means? Con trick? You’ve been deceived.
– John Le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl, 1983
Watch “Christopher Bollyn: Tricked Into War” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/2hN8q_Z1_SU
Jonatan Krovitsky November 13, 2018 , 7:07 am Vote0
So cool of American Imprialsits to diss the right of people to live the way they want. Like, Empire can kill with impunity but Nation-State? Oh no, it’s EVIIIL
Atlas... November 15, 2018 , 5:53 am Vote0
Re: “2. Israel has a right to exist.
No state has a “right to exist”. This concept is a propaganda device invented by the US and Israel for a reason that will become clear momentarily.
One might be tempted to answer this argument with: “Well, Palestine has a right to exist, too!” But this is not the proper response!
Political entities defined by lines on maps do not have rights, individuals do. The proper framework for discussion is the right to self-determination. And it is manifestly Israel that has denied that right to the Palestinians since its founding (and indeed, by the Zionists even before Israel’s founding), and not vice versa.
The necessity of redefining the framework for discussion thus becomes obvious. To say that Israel has a “right to exist” is effectively to assert that the Zionists’ unilateral declaration of Israel’s existence and the ethnic cleansing by which Israel actually came into being were legitimate. Needless to say, these were not legitimate actions on the part of the Zionists.”
10 Zionist Arguments You’ve Encountered, But Didn’t Have Answers To
By Jeremy R. Hammond | Nov 28, 2016 | Editorial, Palestine, Politics | 183 Comments
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/11/28/10-zionist-arguments-youve-encountered-but-didnt-have-answers-to/