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1) Subject: New issue of Al-Adab

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Date:  05 Feb 2002
From: kirsten scheid idriss <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: New issue of Al-Adab

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:

*PALESTINIAN ARMED RESISTANCE: THE MORAL, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS*

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:

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.

In Issue Jan - Feb, 2002 (Vol. 50, #1-2), Arabic Literary and Cultural Review,
Published by Dar al-Adab, Beirut,
                                                                     Price:
$10 (includes airmail postage)
                                                                     Contact:
Kirsten Scheid Idriss
                                                                                     kidriss at cyberia.net.lb
                                                                    Acquisition
Information:  See bottom of message
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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:

*) 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?

*) 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?

*) 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?

*) 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?

*) 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?

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.

And Al-Adab's Creative Core:
Original Poems: Nazih Abu 'Afash, Mahmood Saleh, Muhammad Dibo, Imad
Jabbar, Hassan Fath Al-Bab
  Short Stories: Hisham Ghraybeh, Lana Abd al-Rahman, Ala' al-Lami,
Yaseen Lmaqdam, Khalid Zaghreet
Testimony from Iraq:  Abd as-Sattar Naser
Book Reviews: Suheil Idris's "Dhikrayat" reviewed by Jean Tannous and
Elias Khuri's "Yalo" by Abido Basha
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TO ACQUIRE COPIES OF THIS ISSUE: write to <kidriss at cyberia.net.lb> or
to <d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb>.  Each copy costs $10.  Copies arrive by
airmail.  See payment methods below.

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