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a practical appraisal of palestinian violence, steve salaita

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[ID: text reading, “The real conflict doesn’t exist between civility and terrorism; it exists between Palestinian fortitude and Western anxiety.” End ID.]

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“The Palestinians, like all colonized people, have to measure a hunger for dignity against the agony of retribution. They cannot sit passively while the oppressor inflicts continuous misery and they refuse to accept an ethno-religious narrative in which they exist only to be vanquished. What, then, is left for them to do? They must fight. The fight might be ugly in accordance to the situation imposed by the occupying power. It might challenge observers’ perception of victimhood. Sometimes it might even transgress the boundaries of what Western intellectuals consider proper civil etiquette.

“The violence isn’t purely psychological. It has material purposes, as well. The idea is that the settlers can never be comfortable, for it is in comfort that the settlers feel as if they have accomplished their objectives. The land is theirs. The natives did indeed forget. History has finally ended.

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“Palestinians are inviting Israelis to abandon the romantic idea of their colony. It is not your exclusive utopia. It will never be a place of respite. You cannot be secure and prosperous at our expense.”