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1) Subject: New issue of Al-Adab<br>
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<div>Date: 05 Feb 2002</div>
<div>From: kirsten scheid idriss <kidriss@cyberia.net.lb><br>
Subject: New issue of Al-Adab<br>
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<font face="Geneva">Please be so kind as to post our announcement
about a timely intellectual debate on this critical matter in this
Arabic cultural review now in its 50th year:<br>
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*PALESTINIAN ARMED RESISTANCE: THE MORAL, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL
DIMENSIONS*<br>
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Al-Adab commences its Jubilee year with a major file, prepared by Omar
Barghouthi and Samah Idriss, comprising original contributions from
internationally esteemed thinkers and activists on this most crucial
subject for Palestinians, Arabs, activists and seekers of human rights
everywhere:<br>
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Contributors - Noam Chomsky, Sayyid Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah,
George Habash (PFLP), Richard Falk, Moustapha Barghouthi, Sheikh
Na'im Qassem (Hizbullah), Norman Finkelstein, Issam Makhoul (CP -
Knesset), Usaama Hamdan (Hamas) , Suheil Natour (DFLP), and Ibrahim
Alloush. The file ends with "Al-Adab Numbers and Figures" focusing
on the impact of al-Intifada on Israelis and Palestinians.<br>
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In Issue Jan - Feb, 2002 (Vol. 50, #1-2), Arabic Literary and Cultural
Review,<br>
Published by Dar al-Adab, Beirut, <br>
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Al-Adab's jubilee file on Palestinian armed resistance is
unprecedented in both the scope of the issues addressed and the
participants addressing them. This truly stimulating discussion
will be an important resource for anyone concerned with the fate of
Palestine. Samples of the questions debated follow:<br>
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</font><tt>*) In the Palestinian-Israeli context, Jewish "settlers"
violate international law (especially the 4th Geneva Convention) by
their very residence in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and
Gaza. Do you consider those settlers civilians, or members of
paramilitary groups, or both? Why?<br>
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*) Consider the following case: A bus full of Jewish settlers is
driving in a street on the West Bank in the evening. The bus is
clearly marked as a settlers' bus. Due to a long track record of
abuse and bloody attacks by settlers, the majority of Palestinians
consider anything related to settlers as not just a manifestation of
military occupation of their land, but also a menacing threat to their
very security. A) Would a Palestinian be justified in attacking such a
bus, as a "pre-emptive strike" to protect himself/herself against
those perceived as armed colonial zealots? Why? B) If some of the
passengers were children, would attacking such a bus be considered a
legitimate act of resistance then? Who would be responsible for any
injury to a child on that bus: his/her parents who willingly subjected
him/her to or the attackers, or both?<br>
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</font><tt>*) Besides being created through terror, ethnic cleansing
and dispossession of the indigenous population, Israel is also an
exclusivist state, which unabashedly discriminates against its
"non-Jewish" citizens. How does international law view ethnically
exclusivist states? Can the UN recognition of Israel, viewed by
most Arabs as blatantly unjust, be interpreted by the Palestinian
citizens of Israel in particular as an invitation for them to give up
on international law, and to pursue their quest for justice through
different means? Why?</tt></div>
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*) Should the Palestinian national liberation movement be more
concerned about the political or the moral dimensions of an act of
resistance? Why? If an act of resistance raises serious ethical
concerns, but otherwise has the prospects of being politically
effective, can the movement be justified in committing it?<br>
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*) In view of the Palestinian Authority's recent declaration banning
armed attacks against Israel (even within the 1967 borders) and its
insistence on the oneness of the source of authority among
Palestinians, wouldn't military operations inside 67 or 48 endanger
Palestinian national unity, a unity without which liberation may not
be possible altogether?<br>
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Also included in this issue is a translation of an interview conducted
by David Barsamian with June Jordan, award-winning African-American
poet and activist.<br>
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And Al-Adab's Creative Core:<br>
Original Poems: Nazih Abu 'Afash, Mahmood Saleh, Muhammad Dibo, Imad
Jabbar, Hassan Fath Al-Bab<br>
Short Stories: Hisham Ghraybeh, Lana Abd al-Rahman, Ala'
al-Lami, Yaseen Lmaqdam, Khalid Zaghreet<br>
Testimony from Iraq: Abd as-Sattar Naser<br>
Book Reviews: Suheil Idris's "Dhikrayat" reviewed by Jean
Tannous and Elias Khuri's "Yalo" by Abido Basha<br>
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Each copy costs $10. Copies arrive by airmail. See
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