<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>----- Original message -----</div><div>From: allan siegel <<a href="mailto:allan@allansiegel.info">allan@allansiegel.info</a>></div><div>To: <a href="mailto:allansiegel@internet-mail.org">allansiegel@internet-mail.org</a></div><div>Subject: Support Palestine Action and go to Jail...</div><div>Date: Monday, July 14, 2025 21:57</div><div><br></div><div type="cite" id="qt" style=""><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">Thanks Brian and Keith and
Louis and Patrice,</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">What has been terribly absent
in this discussion is some historical context; one place to
start is with the Balfour Declaration which begins to clarify
the colonial manipulations of the British. The British were
playing with Arab and Zionist leaders. Not Jewish leaders, mind
you. And they were making all kinds of promises that reneged on
or modified (sound familiar?). T.E. Lawrence provides some
insight on the British machinations.</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">Zionism is a political ideology
(not a religion) which is why there are Christian Zionist as
well as Jewish. It is a supremacist ideology, like the Nazi's
Aryanism or Modi's Hinduism (and others as well). And why do we
find so many eugenicist ideologues attached to Trump as foot
servants and minions? Autocracies come in all sizes and shapes;
Mussolini and Hitler had their own playbooks which overlapped in
many areas. Just as Netanyahu and Trump have different but
overlapping agendas.</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">Even though there was ample
evidence of Nazi atrocities it took the Allies a number of years
to act on what was happening; and bomb the train lines that fed
the concentration camps? Genocide can be staring you in the face
but one can feel incapable of doing anything about it. As far as
I can tell Palestine Action is trying to do something that calls
attention to the genocide in Gaza and for that their actions
they are criminalized. As opposed to the various Western
governments who are simply keep supplying bombs and enabling
genocide..</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">And finally, would you call the
inmates of Treblinka terrorists for burning down their
concentration camp? Maybe they should have apologized to the
other inmates who were inconvenienced by their actions. Huh,
Nina? Oliver, I would recommend Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in
Jerusalem to provide you with some historical background.</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">And yes, sometimes you have to
take sides.</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">best</span></span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:"Avenir Next";"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">allan</span></span></p><p><br></p></div></body></html>