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delayed effect of the Holocaust by g kohler 30 March 2002 14:40 UTC |
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Does world(-)system(s) scholarship have anything to offer with regard to analysis of the present struggle Israelis-Palestinians? One strand of world system scholarship looks at this in terms of geopolitical (especially petroleum) interests of the "center" of the world system or, alternatively, of the class interests of the global corporate class or inter-capitalist rivalry. There is another strand of WS scholarship, which is less economistic, more Braudelian, emphasizing long-term historical processes (long duree). Taking this perspective, one cannot but observe that the past fifty years of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a long-term effect of the Holocaust (Shoah). According to this interpretation, the suffering of the Jewish people in the shoah (1939-45) triggered the creation of the state of Israel (1948), which triggered the Palestinian catastrophe, Palestinian suffering and resistance ever since. Thus, Palestinians are second-degree victims of the Holocaust. Two of the many peoples who were victimized by the Nazi aggressions half a century ago, are spilling each others' blood half a century later. The capitalist world system should have something like "binding arbitration". Even labour disputes between teachers unions and the government in Canada are not ended by negotiation. Most of the time these disputes are ended by legislation and binding arbitration. Just as the capitalist world system invented war crimes tribunals, it should invent binding arbitration for collective blood feuds. The global hegemon behaves like a global Hamlet. The rest is silence. GK ____________________________________________________________________________________ Still paying $22.95 a month for unlimited dial-up? Get 3webXS, only $9.95 a month!!! Switch & Save at http://www.Get3web.com/?mkid=emt001
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