I don’t think about this idea that comes to my mind that it’s a good ending to history. The history of the future is not of our society. This is the present that we import.
source : irish Times, Mark O’Connell
Translated by readers of Les-Crises
- President Michael D. Higgins was accompanied by the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Ireland, Gilan Abdel Majeed, during this week. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
A few years ago, I interviewed historian Rashid Khalidi. This, as a reward for his post as a professor of Arab studies at the Department of History at the University of Columbia, is an Arab-American professor who has acquired the previous year’s names. More fierce criticism regarding the influence of united states in the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
This is a discussion, which takes place in the actual figure New York Review of BooksPort sur l’assaut in the context of the Israeli fight against Gaza and the world’s reaction to this attack. (Since October 7, 2023, Al-Khalidi’s excellent book, The Hundred Years’ War in Palestine, rarely leaves the bestseller list… New York Times. Several days after it was posted online, President Joe Biden posed for a photo at the Nantucket Island Library with a model of this book’s bras — a trip that appears to clash with both parties. Israel and Palestine in lineage.
In 2022, Khalidi convened the Long Room Hub at Trinity College, where he wished to conduct parallel research between the colonial administrations of Palestine and Ireland, and the way in which Ireland does not serve as a laboratory for the kinds of colonial practices the British state is exporting to Palestine. During our conversations, we will abandon the topic of Ireland’s residency status in Europe, and in general in the West, as long as the population does not significantly support the Palestinian cause – support that falls into another tradition, which is also a form of presence, through his son’s positions in government, a strange political material. .
I told Al-Khalidi that this is the logic behind our history: the Irish have greatly gained the Palestinian cause. I point out that what seems to me less clear is that this is a story of the cultural memory of colonialism – the fact that atrocities are committed in one’s own place versus a foreign occupying power – is a kind of indispensable préalable condition under which you can consider that similar atrocities occurring in the future are also Not acceptable. I have the impression that Khalidi, who had experience in colonial history and years of political struggle on behalf of the Palestinian cause, was also something that could be dismantled on this history. As long as you know more than a long colonial experience, the Ireland you explore is ‘part of it’. » The fact that extraordinary historical circumstances may also be a necessity of the matter of basic moral sense does not seem to be easy to understand.
We can partly explain the fact that colonial history is not merely a matter of history – as if history were a “simple” jamais. “Civil rights in the North, the Bloody Sunday massacre, the endless years of brutal military violence of the Cotton: all these choices are comfortable — or, more specifically, uncomfortable — in living memory.” My great-grandfather is a British subject, in Kilkenny’s account. The past is not a dead collector, as William Faulkner said. It is not a revolution.
On this matter, the conundrum is not an experience for us, the Irish, looking to confront Israeli barbarism. (Are you sure that I don’t have a number of dead and destroyed people? Are there any that destroy the horrors and the destruction of the villages, children caught by snipers, attack policies, systematic destruction of… Do you live with civil and infrastructure in Gaza? The puzzle is knowledge because this response is not equivalent in other European countries, such as Spain and Norway.
For the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Saar, as he reviewed the decision taken this week by his special envoy to Dublin, the options are very clear: the Irish government’s policy towards abroad Israel – SA The survey of the Palestinian state and its intervention for the sake of the International Court of Justice in the affairs of southern Africa that defends About Israel for genocide, and the announcement of the expansion of the idea of genocide by the court – is unacceptable, “extremist”, and notre taoiseach [chef du gouvernement de l’Irlande, NdT] Simon Harris is an “anti-Semite.” »
What drives us – the son of the people and the son of the political establishment – means realizing that our voice through the overwhelming silence of a large part of other Western countries is a chosen one that we cannot choose, in the moment when the fire
This assertion cannot be taken into account by seriousness in relation to a meaningless intellectual or moral plan. It reflects a bizarre effort that led to a country being taken by the Prime Minister to the task of arresting the ICC for alleged war crimes, in the hope that he would go further or confirm that this was the obvious. This reflects a grim modern-day anachronism: global standards these days rely on criticism of Israel’s massacre in Gaza for why they find the death threat in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as much of a crime. qui ne doit plus jamais Be tolerant. This edifice of global rules (international rights, human rights), which builds World War II and the Holocaust, is spread in Gaza in the form of dismantling smoke, eliminating silence and complicity. de ce que l’on appelait another «International Community. »
At the beginning of the week, while receiving establishment letters from Palestine’s new Ambassador Gilan Abdel Majeed, President Michael D. Higgins said that the accusation of anti-Semitism directed against the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs against our government is a “dangerous distortion” of the face of the Irish people. It sounds like I’m talking about a superficial insult: a response to all the evidence that could be dangerous faces a major accusation of consequences that has Israel rehearsing genocide in Gaza.
The subsequent president, he believes, is why we, the Irish, have a history of understanding empirical ways of concepts like dispossession and occupation, which is why we insist on the importance of international law. For good reason, but the question that draws me to the soul is the knowledge that money and people need a historical story to understand the genre they choose. Why is this Irish country, like this Khaledi, in a specific case? I’m very happy, but I like to think whether I was British, American, German or Irish, I would go back and watch and consider Israel’s campaign of carnage and destruction. United Nations moral outrage.
It is unfortunate that Ireland is an isolated country, but this is not true in Ireland. What drives us – a people and a political establishment – falsely implies that the overwhelming silence of most other Western nations is a choice we cannot make, for a single moment. I don’t think about this idea that comes to my mind that it’s a good ending to history. The history of the future is not of our society. This is the present that we import. It is worth noting that this is the least that matters at this important point, which is the good part of history.
source : irish Times, Mark O’Connell12-21-2024
Translated by readers of Les-Crises
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