{"id":77,"date":"2004-06-03T23:13:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T23:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2004-06-03T23:13:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T23:13:50","slug":"challenging-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on Rafah Kid<\/a>, Mark links to this article<\/a> about the death of Rachel Corrie. In the comments, the usual debate is raging. (I say “debate” in the spirit of being extremely generous to some of the contributors.)
\nReading it reminds me of one major problem in dealing with these issues. In this case, the spark is me noticing that some of the pro-occupation posters tend to make absolute statements about who the Palestinians are, namely that they are a people who overwhelmingly want to wipe out Israel and kill as many innocent Israelis as they need to in order to make that happen.
\nThese people have defined the Palestinians as evil.
\n—
\nA few blog entries back<\/a> I had a comment from someone called Hannah. She’s in high school in the States, and says, quoting my Palestine premises post<\/a>:
\n[me] * Shared humanity tells us that the majority of people on both sides are
\nprepared to compromise for peace, and seek to minimise suffering for those on
\nthe opposing side.
\n[Hannah] I’ve tried to say this before … but they just pull out the “60% support
\nterrorism and dont want peace” statistic … how should I defend myself in this
\nsituation?
\n—
\nAgain, the Palestinians are being defined as evil.
\nI replied to Hannah recently, but I don’t know how much sense I made and I didn’t keep a copy so I can’t check. Anyway, I thought it might be good to throw this one open to any and all who might be reading:
\nHow can you talk about being pro-Palestinian when your opponents are defining the Palestinians as evil?<\/b>
\nOr to flip it around,
\nHow can those who define Palestinians as evil be made to question this definition?<\/b>
\nPlease respond. I’ll email Hannah to tell her we’re talking about this here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on Rafah Kid, Mark links to this article about the death of Rachel Corrie. In the comments, the usual debate is raging. (I say “debate” in the spirit of being extremely generous to some of the contributors.) Reading it reminds me of one major problem in dealing with these issues. In this case, the … Continue reading Challenging Definitions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}