Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera Esmer, Taiseer Khatib, and Hassan Jabareen

here r some critical points for you to consider with the hope that the politically correct will not censor me:

- Right now occupied Palestinian Jenin needs you all much more than Haifa or Akka

- A feminist Palestinian male can sometimes move his brown ass to leave in his wife's oppressed hometown (rather than always the other way around)

- Proud and patriotic Palestinians should not beg for crums to be thrown at them by the "courts" of Zionist Israel

- Proud Palestinians do not beg for Israeli citizenship but instead join the place which needs them most urgently which is now Jenin more than 1948 Israeli cities.

Patriotic Palestinians should not choose to live as an oppressed minority under the direct colonial rule of the Zionists. They should instead strive to live within one of our own majority community in order to strengthen it politically, economically and scholarly and in order to empower the resistance members.

No wonder that with such spoiled middle class consciousness the Palestinian elite in Israel or Berkeley merely continues to betray our people's struggle. Is the right of return to Akka more important than the right of return to Jenin?

This whole trend of the three speakers merely demonstrate the Israelization of their political consciousness.

The first comment strikes me as a perfect ventriloquization of Zionist consciousness. Utter zabaleh. Palestinians, it infers, should not seek to live in their historic homeland, only where Israel would allow them to live? Why then stop at Jenin, which is also under colonial rule, whose mediating self-rule authority does nothing so convincingly as beg for crumbs from Israel. This is a complete inversion of sumud, a call for Palestinians to assist in their own ethnic cleansing. Mr. Khatib does live within and struggles for his community; the Palestinian community that straddles the Green Line, and which, if it accepts that line as the limit of its political imagination, has already conceded defeat and resigned itself to historic dissolution. Though the author invokes "our" community, I doubt that he is actually a Palestinian - what Palestinian would refer to Akka or Nasra as "Israeli cities"? Does he know Palestinians are actually in the majority in Jaleel? All the sadder if he is.

The first comment strikes me as a perfect ventriloquization of Zionist consciousness. Utter zabaleh. Palestinians, it infers, should not seek to live in their historic homeland, only where Israel would allow them to live? Why then stop at Jenin, which is also under colonial rule, whose mediating self-rule authority does nothing so convincingly as beg for crumbs from Israel. This is a complete inversion of sumud, a call for Palestinians to assist in their own ethnic cleansing. Mr. Khatib does live within and struggles for his community; the Palestinian community that straddles the Green Line, and which, if it accepts that line as the limit of its political imagination, has already conceded defeat and resigned itself to historic dissolution. Though the author invokes "our" community, I doubt that he is actually a Palestinian - what Palestinian would refer to Akka or Nasra as "Israeli cities"? Does he know Palestinians are actually in the majority in Jaleel? All the sadder if he is.