Diaspora

The Arab Diaspora are a strange bunch. Especially those who have lived in the US for over two decades, and are now accustomed to the relaxed life they have. Quite a few people this evening were glorifying different resistence groups, and said things which made them seem oblivious to some of the more serious effects of the various groups. When someone says that Hamas is "fashshet khili2", I really begin to wonder ...

Anyway, there is only so much you can really argue with such dogmatic statements. I kept remembering these words by U2 in Sunday Bloody Sunday (yes, I know the examples used in it aren't exactly pertinent to what goes on, but the gist of it is ...)

I'm had enough of Irish Americans, who haven't been to their country in 20 to 30 years, come up to me, and talk about the resistance . . . the revolution back home . . . and the glory of the revolution and the glory of dying for the revolution.

Fuck the revolution. They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution.

What's the glory, in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children. Where's the glory in that.

Where's the glory in bombing a rememberance day parade of old age pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day. Where's the glory in that. To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the revolution, that the majority of the people in my country don't want.

posted by Lazarus, 12:25 AM