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response to bono's highly ignorant article in the NYT - fax it to his office

bandora etrog | 11.01.2010 12:22 | Palestine

bono wrote an op-ed in the new york times in which, among other things, he said "I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi." send him this excellent rebuttal.

bono's orignal article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?pagewanted=3 (the reference to palestinians is about half way down)

alison weir's rebuttal:

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir01082010.html

at the end are contact details for bono's management. please send this article to him.

bandora etrog

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Excellent Article by Alison Weir!

11.01.2010 20:49

Thanks for the heads up. I had read the article but missed the suggestion to fax a response to Bono's ignorance...

Here's the tel./fax listed on Counterpunch for those wishing to send Bono's NYC office a response:

tel. (001) 212.765.2330
fax: (001) 212.765.2372

ninetto

Nice response, but another question is whether non-violence is the solution?

12.01.2010 10:35

That's a good response from a pacifist angle, but another question is whether people like the Palestinians SHOULD use non-violence. Maybe if the oppression is bad enough, a violence response is justified.

Of course, it may be morally justified but tactically inappropriate.

It also depends if you count damage to property as violence or not.

anon

violence or non-violence

12.01.2010 12:43

the main reason for posting this was bono's ignorance of assuming that there are only violent palestinians, and that non-violence is somehow an alien concept to them. i wrote to him via his management to point out that, over the many decades of occupation, there have been countless expressions of resistance without violence (such as the tax stroke in 1989 in Beit Sahour) yet the response to these actions by Israel has always been bloody and violent.

i've spent may years living and working in palestine and israel: as an individual i abhor violence, i've seen the results - mainly of violence against palestinians. but i also have to accept that it is the right of palestinians to use whichever methods they see fit to fight the oppression they live under, even if i would not use them myself. and, if i am honest (which i hope i am), knowing the reality i cannot say that in the same circumstances i would not use violence. but for bono to make such critical claims is ignorance which must be challenged. i hope people realise what a fuckwit he really is.