http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/09/civil-protest-in-israel-reflections-of-a-science-fiction-fan/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/09/civil-protest-in-israel-reflections-of-a-science-fiction-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-17008 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:25:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=7868#comment-17008 It’s an important thought, I think. It follows the logic of my notion of the politics of small things.

]]> http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/09/civil-protest-in-israel-reflections-of-a-science-fiction-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-17005 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:06:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=7868#comment-17005 Or, it may indeed be the other way around? Only by vast sections of the population coalescing around and prioritising socio-economic issues will the electoral hold of the nationalist right over Israel’s working and lower middle classes be broken. Once that happens … things might start to shift more readily on the question of occupation/peace etc. Just a thought.

]]> http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/09/civil-protest-in-israel-reflections-of-a-science-fiction-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-16909 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:11:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=7868#comment-16909 I am generally resistant to notions that there is some key problem which must be addressed in order for anything else can be done. For example, that the problems of the environment can’t be addressed until capitalism or communism are abolished. Yet, I wonder whether social justice inside of Israel (for both Jews and Palestinians) is possible without peace with Palestine and more broadly the (newly democratizing) Arab world. This is a question, not an assertion.

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