[Lebybynctisee]

From Shelby Steele: A conservative African American weighs in.
From news article:
This is not unique to the Middle East. In black America we had exactly the same thing. After we got the civil rights bill and this greater degree of freedom, then all of a sudden we hear the words "black power." Then all of a sudden we have the Black Panthers. Then we have this militancy, this picking up of the gun because we feel bad about ourselves. We feel uncompetitive and this becomes our compensation. It is a common pattern among groups that felt abandoned when they became free.

This is the real story of the Palestinians and of the Middle East. They will never be reached by reason until they are somehow able to get beyond bad faith, to get beyond this sort of poetic truth that they are the perennial victims of an aggressive and racist Israeli nation.
Challenging their narrative with this explanation will enable us to be more effective. Until now, we have constantly used facts and reason and have not progressed.

Durban is a perfect example of bad faith because Durban is way of saying Israelis are racist and they are our problem. Durban really is a way of saying I am not free. I am still a victim. That is the real purpose of Durban. The Palestinian unilateral claim for recognition from the UN is also a perfect example of bad faith. If Palestinians proceed to the Security Council, they will very likely be turned down, and will respond by saying: "I told you we were victims. I told you the West is racist," and so on. It refuels the same sad identity.

The irony and the tragedy of all this is that it keeps these groups in a bubble where they never encounter or deal with the truth. This becomes a second oppression for all these groups. They have been oppressed once, now they are free and yet they create a poetic truth that then oppresses them all over again.

[huedaanydrax]

I view the Black American struggle for equality being quite dissimilar from the analogy drawn by Steele’s regards the Palestinian’s circumstances. The Palestinian mindset of oppression has been, as a general rule, self-created, self-promoted misinformation for the gullible. Thanks to the golly-gee, western mass-media who disseminates this slight-of-fact and fiction account, this Palestinian mythology has gained credence, particularly amongst the political left.

Palestinians have not been enslaved by Israel but by their chosen overseers or jailers, The PA, Hamas and Fatah. This so-called aspiring and misunderstood society is based upon the tenets of bloodletting, the mass-murder of Israelis and self-victimization. The true victims are, as always, the innocent Israelis and in some cases, Palestinians who have been murdered by the aforementioned psychopathic gangsters.

I cannot foresee any time in the near or distant future, the Palestinians shedding the shackles of victimization. The V’’ word has turned into the Palestinian’s mantra and the world apparently finds the tune extremely beguiling.

If Mr. Steele desires to draw an analogy; it would have been more appropriate if he'd drawn a comparison of Black America's plight with the unending struggle of the Jews. Even this, it would not come close but would be more accurate a comparison.

I may be spinning my grey matter but this is the way I see it.