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Jaime Omar Yassin commented on the blog post The Criminalization of Palestinian Solidarity Activism by the US, Israel
Papau. I go back and forth on this. On the one hand, I’m pretty confident that a two state solution won’t solve the issue. Israel has wanted a two state solution since the inception of Oslo because it gives Israel everything it gets from the occupation, without the headache of the colonial occupation. On the other hand, a one state solution is a pretty distant option, though one I think that is inevitable, given the corner Israel has painted itself into. It sounds odd to the uninformed ear, and the energy on the Palestinian side hasn’t quite gotten there, as a civil rights movement, I mean. Though I think it’s close. At this point, I think advocacy for Palestinians and focus on Israeli policies needn’t specify the end goal. The issue is a tough one, and there’s been no movement, except negative movement, for decades. I would reject a return to negotiations, if that actually occurs, however. That’s never going to be the answer. We’re miles from there, at the moment, anyway. So we can all work from a similar page for the most part.
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Omooex commented on the blog post The Criminalization of Palestinian Solidarity Activism by the US, Israel
I’m a big fan of EI and Maureen’s work, but I think Maureen’s analysis leaves out a crucial issue–a large portion of the Knesset, the centrists and liberals, voted against this legislation. It was not overwhelmingly passed, and, like other legislation that targets Israeli civil society and institutions, it will engender an immediate backlash that has nothing to do with Israel’s occupation.
I’ve seen this occur over and over. In a country with parties that have even fewer differences on foreign policy than the US, their biggest fights have to occur on these kinds of battlefields–the right against the left on superficial issues of civil liberties. This law will almost certainly be thrown out, it will be declared a victory for Israeli democracy. The “left/liberal” parties that voted against the bill, almost certainly do not support boycotts, nor do they support even the most minimal two state bantustan solution.
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Omooex commented on the blog post Lamo’s Two (?!) Laptops
Two things come to mind here that are mutually exclusive. In the first scenario, this could explain how Lamo lost his encryption key–if he had it saved on his laptop–if that is in fact true, and his communications with Manning began in May. Although the fact that he didn’t mention this as the reason he lost his key, makes it less interesting. He could have pinned it on the theft at any time and come off more believable.
This is the far-outer part: that Lamo’s exchange with Manning began earlier via email, and Lamo staged the theft of his laptop to hide the emails. No laptop, no subpoena of laptop. Lamo is over-medicated, and lying anyway, and blows it, however.
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Omooex commented on the blog post Pulling Some Threads on Lamo’s Inconsistencies
Its not a dealbreaker for me, but I think we’d see more consistent reference to former conversations in other mediums ex…”like you told me in that email…like I told you in that email”. Its also possible that that what’s being kept out of view in the logs. But if they are a distraction from another form of communication, you’d expect to see that other form referenced pretty consistently throughout the conversation.
As small thing, please do some proof-reading. You have a couple of obvious mistakes here that only make it more difficult to figure out a really confusing story.
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Omooex commented on the blog post When Did Adrian Lamo Start Working with Federal Investigators?
What are you implying that the lag means? i know its a pretty straightforward question. If you’re going to make it the center piece of your article, then you need to explain why its so important.
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Omooex commented on the diary post Why the Right Wins and the Left Loses (or, Why the Left will Fail to Free Bradley Manning) by Eric Patton.
There is no definition of the left or right. I can’t think of a more useless contest than trying to figure out who the “gatekeepers” are. Stop worrying about who the sell outs are, and get your own sh^% together and do something. Then wait for the blogosphere to call you a gatekeeper. Because that’s [...]
