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G21 WORLD HQ - We first became aware of Jennifer Loewenstein's involvement in working on issues of Israeli/Palestinian relations by way of an impassioned article she wrote for CounterPunch.org. Despite receiving hundreds of letters in response to the article (some of which were subsequently published at the same Web magazine,) she gratiously agreed to being interviewed by your World's Magazine. The transcript of our discussion follows.
G21: Let's begin with a bit of background. What got you interested in the Israeli/Palestinian question and prompted some of the perspectives one finds in your published work?
LOEWENSTEIN: It's difficult to find one or two things that sparked my interest. I think many things led to my wanting to learn more about the I/P situation. I grew up in a Jewish household in a suburb of Detroit and lived in Israel as a small child. I have many relatives there. I wanted to know more about them when I was older (and back living in the US). I remember my mother sending a box of clothing to my cousins just before the 1967 War because there were blockades on Israel. I wanted to understand why. Back then, I believed what my parents and friends all said -- that Israel was the victim of aggression and hatred. I wanted to stand up for Israel.
At the same time, however, my parents were passionate supporters of the US Civil Rights movement, which was going on in the 60s when I was a child. They were also outspoken opponents of the Vietnam War. We had many friends who participated in demonstrations and got arrested for their anti-war activities. These things made a deep impression on me and from a very early age I was preoccupied with social and political justice issues. Of course, my understanding of things back then was simplistic, but I think this was the beginning of desire to be an activist for human rights. ... READ MORE
Queenstown, SOUTH AFRICA - The US likes to claim the status of being the moral force for good of the world. The unnecessary tragedy of city of New Orleans has exposed the hypocrisy under this claim. The Big Easy was allowed to sit in the Hurricane Alley, as this part of the Gulf coast is known, with walls and levees against flooding that were well known to be unable to withstand the severest storm -- a storm that would inevitably happen sooner or later. This resulted in an unnecessary loss of many lives when Hurricane Katrina came. How was that possible in the world's richest nation? The only answer possible is that it could be allowed to happen because they were mostly black and poor.
A colleague of mine, Nicole Pepinster Greene, who is Associate Professor, Department of English, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans wrote:
As we sat watching these images of the thousands of displaced and suffering black people at the Superdome and Convention Centre, a commentator remarked: "They're looking as if they're coming from some place else ... this just isn't America." These scenes conjured up another New Orleans landmark, Congo Square, where Africans used to await sale and transportation as slaves.But this is America today and this is another diaspora. A black doctor treating young African Americans who had walked 130 miles from New Orleans said their feet resembled those of runaway slaves.... READ MORE
JOHN D. GOLDHAMMER ON "THE SHADOW":
Seattle, WA, USA - A mouth that prays, a hand that kills. - Arabian proverb
"How do you find a lion that has swallowed you?" asked Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, commenting on the moral dilemma posed by the "shadow," his insightful term for the dark, hidden side of the human psyche. The answer to Jung's questions is "you can't find or see that lion" -- not as long as you are inside the beast. And therein resides the essential dilemma of a group's dark side or shadow: it is nearly impossible for those caught inside a group's belief system to see their own dark side with any clarity or objectivity.This hidden side grows over time, regressing, becoming more and more aggressive. It's the "long bag we drag behind us," says poet Robert Bly -- where, as individuals, we dispose of all those things that are too uncomfortable to look at. "The long-repressed shadow of Dr. Jekyll rises up in the shape of Mr. Hyde, deformed, an ape-like figure glimpsed against the alley wall."1
Now imagine millions of Mr. Hydes and you have a sense of the group shadow of fundamentalist, right wing extremists dressed up as "compassionate conservatives," led by George W. Bush. It's like shifting from a hand gun to a nuclear bomb. And it began long ago in both the Moslem and Christian worlds. ... READ MORE
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