T.N. “maîtresse”: the french word for teacher, or for that which teaches; “l’idée maîtresse” or “la lutte maîtresse”: the key idea or struggle, but not in the sense of essential (and exclusively so), but that idea or struggle which “teaches”. The expression “master struggle” below should be understood against the background of this.
From lundi matin #399, 16/10/2023
To Stand. . .
To stand, in the shadow
of the scar up in the air.
To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you
alone.
With all there is room for in that,
even without
language.
Paul Celan
A 71-year-old man in Plainfield, Illinois, has been charged with murder and a hate crime after stabbing a child and his mother because they were Muslims.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will county sheriff’s office said.
Six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was killed and his mother seriously wounded in the attack. Police said they responded to an emergency call made by a 32-year-old woman who alleged her landlord had attacked her with a knife.
The Guardian, 16/10/2023
Pour une lutte maîtresse
October 7, 2023. Hamas commits war crimes. The Israeli state is an occupier; the Israeli government and Israeli army have been committing war crimes for years. One does not justify the other.
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From the Galilee to Gaza: A Voice from Palestine
From the CrimethInc. collective, 17/10/2023 …
Right now, the Israeli military is raining bombs onto people trapped in Gaza. They have already killed almost 3000 people and displaced over a million more. This is just the latest chapter in over a century of colonial violence targeting Palestinians.
We grieve for everyone throughout the region killed, injured, or displaced on October 7 and in the days before and since. But as in any struggle, those who have the most power have the most leverage when it comes to determining what form the conflict will take. We are concerned about the lives of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere around the world, not despite the deaths of Israelis, but because the only way to make anyone safe in the region will be to bring an end to the oppression of Palestinians.
Corporate media outlets in Europe and North America have spent the past ten days focusing attention on Israeli suffering rather than exploring the series of events that led to this situation. The vast majority of all perspectives on the situation are coming from outside Palestine. It is important to hear directly from Palestinians, who understand better than anyone else how the situation reached this point.
It has been very difficult to communicate with people in Gaza, owing to challenges including Israeli airstrikes targeting communications infrastructure. For now, we present the perspective of a Palestinian living in the north of Palestine, who speaks about different aspects of life under colonization and about the struggle for liberation through grassroots organizing and solidarity.
For more background on the situation, you can read this interview with an anarchist from Jaffa.
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