Zizek you cant be that naive. Offering flower? You are just ignoring decades of opression and colonization of palestinian people. If they broke into Israel with flowers, IDF would put a bullet into their heads. This has been happening for decades.
Thank you for going against your grain and giving it to us straight. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Everyone's moral compass is spinning in circles these days, this piece provides useful orientation. And it ends with battle plan that is pure poetry.
It is indeed a crazy dream, that Hamas, who had 4 hours of bullet time, decided to massacre Kibbutzs, instead of demolishing an air force that was sitting virtually unguarded 40 minutes away. The idea that Israel is the one provoking here is entirely false. The 'axis of resistance' has been trying to "boil the frog" for quite a while, and states, which are incredibly fragile towers of cards, are always in existential danger during any level of armed conflict.
Addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without acknowledging that yes, Israel can solve its problems with ethnic cleansing, and no, there isn't much you can do about it without making it worse, is necessary for actually negotiating anything. The asymmetry of this conflict means that Israel, however nasty what its doing is, is still demonstrating relative restraint.
Other countries would not, and have not in similar situations.
thanks, Slavoj for your heartfelt writing. Bibi and his minions have successfully inscribed pernicious anti-semitism for another millennium. only wish you would have mentioned Sha’ban al-Dalou burned alive in his hospital bed among others over the course of the past year. War. Someone might get hurt. Hello. We teach preschoolers to use their words.
I didn’t even know he was jewish until a fellow writer published something regarding judeo-nazis. Btw, i hated him and them since forever. Them with Open Society and other NGOs do lots of blood money around Europe while pretending on surface they’re some sort of philanthropists. Lol. 😂 I don’t wanna get started, Ill write some day
Nice piece of narcissistic drivel! You are the Bob Dylan of modern critical theory! In many ways you remind me of Trump. You are always speaking in trivialities about vast topics. If you were a Palestinian, suffering as any of them, with their background, you would conceive this novel approach. I have an idea too. Let’s make Gaza Woodstock! 500 days of peace and love. Raves up and down the strip! Dialectical thinking has deformed your reason! You are a very comfortable intellectual quality with a brusque market in white, college youth! It buys you your home and feeds your wife and child. Yet, you moralize? Another piece of Lenin’s flesh has fallen off! You will obviously always identify with the colonizer. Bogus leftist that you are, you think irony and ambiguity is what makes intelligence. Hence, deception. You don’t want to take sides and you don’t want to appear neutral. Always wanting to be the goad, you say things that have no charge and believe yourself a threat to the status quo? You are the status quo, Slavoj! Maoist? Ha ha.
Ok you made a few great films and wrote one or two good books. You remind me of the Ottoman Empire in 1900! Just fade away now. Don’t you see you’re irrrlevant?
I think it would have been very illuminating to be the proverbial fly on the wall in, for example, the case of President Macron's meeting of his military advisers following Oct 7. Notwithstanding that politics at that level is never entirely safe from perfidy, I cannot imagine them telling le président de la République that Hamas' actions were other than utterly inexplicable, that they simply did not add up strategically, that they only made sense as lunacy or treason. Indeed it's not uncommon for Middle East specialists writing for Spanish national newspapers to affirm that neither Hamas nor Hezbollah are what they purport to defend or be: the impression given goes beyond the commonplace accusation that they are in it for themselves, it seems to go deeper than that. I merely conclude with this astounding article by Der Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/mama-pray-for-me-the-women-soldiers-who-warned-israel-of-the-approaching-attack-a-3da40321-9537-4b6b-9457-3d16d2181400
Not sure how you could use an advanced anti-missile system to escalate tensions, but the broader point that the US is afraid of Israeli escalations is true.
This reminds me a lot of the Collateral Murder video uncovered by Assange 14 years ago. He has been through hell all this time for being a hero of freedom and peace. Thank God he is free now! I remember a great debate between you two, mediated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. You should do it again; it would be very enlightening!
Zizek you cant be that naive. Offering flower? You are just ignoring decades of opression and colonization of palestinian people. If they broke into Israel with flowers, IDF would put a bullet into their heads. This has been happening for decades.
Free Palestine!
If Zizek is trying to say about a radical act the would end the war/violence. I can understand the ideia. But terrible example.
Why not Israel “give flowers” to palestinians?
The hardcore-marxist suddenly discovers Ghandi, hippies, and Hair (the musical) when it comes to Israel (but only for one side)? So genuine...
this is the same person who supported the Jacobins!
Thank you for going against your grain and giving it to us straight. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Everyone's moral compass is spinning in circles these days, this piece provides useful orientation. And it ends with battle plan that is pure poetry.
It is indeed a crazy dream, that Hamas, who had 4 hours of bullet time, decided to massacre Kibbutzs, instead of demolishing an air force that was sitting virtually unguarded 40 minutes away. The idea that Israel is the one provoking here is entirely false. The 'axis of resistance' has been trying to "boil the frog" for quite a while, and states, which are incredibly fragile towers of cards, are always in existential danger during any level of armed conflict.
Addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without acknowledging that yes, Israel can solve its problems with ethnic cleansing, and no, there isn't much you can do about it without making it worse, is necessary for actually negotiating anything. The asymmetry of this conflict means that Israel, however nasty what its doing is, is still demonstrating relative restraint.
Other countries would not, and have not in similar situations.
thanks, Slavoj for your heartfelt writing. Bibi and his minions have successfully inscribed pernicious anti-semitism for another millennium. only wish you would have mentioned Sha’ban al-Dalou burned alive in his hospital bed among others over the course of the past year. War. Someone might get hurt. Hello. We teach preschoolers to use their words.
Failed Yugoslav communist, now a komuñar of the Soros money laundering elite. Kudos Slavoj fukin Mižek. LOL!!!!
I didn’t even know he was jewish until a fellow writer published something regarding judeo-nazis. Btw, i hated him and them since forever. Them with Open Society and other NGOs do lots of blood money around Europe while pretending on surface they’re some sort of philanthropists. Lol. 😂 I don’t wanna get started, Ill write some day
Nice piece of narcissistic drivel! You are the Bob Dylan of modern critical theory! In many ways you remind me of Trump. You are always speaking in trivialities about vast topics. If you were a Palestinian, suffering as any of them, with their background, you would conceive this novel approach. I have an idea too. Let’s make Gaza Woodstock! 500 days of peace and love. Raves up and down the strip! Dialectical thinking has deformed your reason! You are a very comfortable intellectual quality with a brusque market in white, college youth! It buys you your home and feeds your wife and child. Yet, you moralize? Another piece of Lenin’s flesh has fallen off! You will obviously always identify with the colonizer. Bogus leftist that you are, you think irony and ambiguity is what makes intelligence. Hence, deception. You don’t want to take sides and you don’t want to appear neutral. Always wanting to be the goad, you say things that have no charge and believe yourself a threat to the status quo? You are the status quo, Slavoj! Maoist? Ha ha.
Ok you made a few great films and wrote one or two good books. You remind me of the Ottoman Empire in 1900! Just fade away now. Don’t you see you’re irrrlevant?
Fondly,
Richard
I think it would have been very illuminating to be the proverbial fly on the wall in, for example, the case of President Macron's meeting of his military advisers following Oct 7. Notwithstanding that politics at that level is never entirely safe from perfidy, I cannot imagine them telling le président de la République that Hamas' actions were other than utterly inexplicable, that they simply did not add up strategically, that they only made sense as lunacy or treason. Indeed it's not uncommon for Middle East specialists writing for Spanish national newspapers to affirm that neither Hamas nor Hezbollah are what they purport to defend or be: the impression given goes beyond the commonplace accusation that they are in it for themselves, it seems to go deeper than that. I merely conclude with this astounding article by Der Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/mama-pray-for-me-the-women-soldiers-who-warned-israel-of-the-approaching-attack-a-3da40321-9537-4b6b-9457-3d16d2181400
Not sure how you could use an advanced anti-missile system to escalate tensions, but the broader point that the US is afraid of Israeli escalations is true.
Thank you
https://palestinianmothman.substack.com/p/the-situation-in-palestine
The two-state solution is a vacant gesture. Its not going to happen to with the bantustan bypasses of the West Bank ( just take a look at the map in Wikipedia since no one else dare display it in broad daylight ). The best we can hope for is one secular federation from river to sea for 8 million people and no guaranteed “right” to return for either Jews or Palestinians, although it is unfair to the latter (https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-10-09/avi-shlaim-israeli-british-historian-netanyahu-wants-to-drag-the-us-into-a-confrontation-with-iran.html)
This reminds me a lot of the Collateral Murder video uncovered by Assange 14 years ago. He has been through hell all this time for being a hero of freedom and peace. Thank God he is free now! I remember a great debate between you two, mediated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. You should do it again; it would be very enlightening!