"Those to Whom Evil Is Done Do Evil in Return"

In this “special emergency edition” of Texting, Tomek and I discuss the current state of the conflict in Israel-Palestine. We do not claim to be experts on this topic, but we do consider ourselves to be well enough informed to offer a counternarrative to the bellicose pro-Israel propaganda spewed forth by the mainstream media. Note that the title of this episode is an allusion to W.H. Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939,” which I mention toward the end of the pod. The JFK quote I could not recall verbatim is as follows: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Is it not apropos?

For those who prefer video, the full episode has been uploaded to my YouTube channel:

Clips will be posted anon.

For more context on Palestine and Palestinian culture, see our S2E15 episode on Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “A Lesson from Kama Sutra”:

I also recommend the latest episode of Useful Idiots, which highlights Palestinian voices that the MSM typically ignores and/or suppresses:

Notice that YouTube, at least here in Taiwan, has age-restricted—that is, censored—this video. So it goes.