From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (General Sharin')
Subject: Re: ** The Birth of NEW-ISRAEL ** ( Re: Death of America xxx )
Summary: A cornspiracy
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Keywords: Hick! ...erp, pardon.
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:28:00 GMT

In article <C08zH1.9GK@panix.com>, mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon) writes...
>In article <C07tHH.L7w@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
>writes:
> 
>>In article <1JAN199320014243@utarlg.uta.edu> b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu
>(General Jubilation T.) writes:
> 
>>>	[ a sortamanifesto thingy ]
> 
>>	[ a protest ]
> 
>I can well understand Mr. Toal's objection, but I should note for the
>cross-puddle crowd that General Jubilation T. Cornpone is a figure (of
>fun) in the L'l Abner comic strip (and the Bd'wy musical made from it),
>so that one (here) is hardly given to taking such a post without irony.

<yow>

... decipherin' tongues?!
Let's give the coder another whirl.

Again Arthur Waskow's _Godwrestling_
"Beyond Marx and Bussha: The Jubilee"
P. 111+...

	"[There] was Gush Emunim, the Band of the Faithful, 
	marching onto Palestinian land to set up Jewish
	settlements. The Gush Emunim were breaking the law.
	But worse, they were making it harder to achieve 
	peace with the Palestinians. They could settle in
	the Land of Israel. They were stirring the blood of
	many Israelis. So we decided we must answer them,
	we must show how foolish this idea was.

	"We decided it was important not just to speak against
	their action, but to act -- as they were. Their act
	was stirring; our act must be stirring.

	"So we went to the ranch of General Sharon. He is one
	of their heroes, he wants to annex the Palestinian 
	lands. He is also very rich. He has plenty of land.

	"So we set up tents on his land, as they had set up
	tents in the occupied territories. `Israelis!' we said.
	`You need more land? General Sharon has more than he 
	needs. We do not need to take Palestinian land, we can
	share our own land. Come share!'

	"So they arrested us, dragged us away, and our haver
	kicked out at them, and now he is going to jail. The
	Gush Emunim, they do not go to jail. The government
	criticizes them, but goes along with them."

	The Kibbutzniks keep talking about Gush Emunim, the
	Palestinians, the government, but I have stopped
	listening. Sitting in the Negev, sitting in the kibbutz
	where the land is shared, listening to the story, has
	touched something in me. I interrupt. "Did you do any-
	thing about Sharon's land?"

	"No," they say. "We made our point. That was all 
	we meant to do." ...

p. 113+...

	A week later I am back in Washington. It is late in the summer
	of 1975, and some people are looking ahead to the Bicentennial
	Year. Two sets of people: officials who are planning fireworks
	and galas, and populists -- modern equivalents of Sam Adams --
	who see the global corporations as modern equivalents of the
	British Monarchy. One group of these new populists, the People's
	Bicentennial Commission, is meeting at the research center where
	I work. As they talk about anticorporate "tea parties" and
	"economic democracy," my mind plays a trick: two tracks of 
	thought curve into each other, a piece of arithmetic leaps out
	at me: 4 x 50 = 200. Any Bicentennial is also a Jubilee, 1976
	should be an American Jubilee Year. It should be the fourth
	American Jubilee, but there has never been even one.

	Wait, yes there was -- "Hoo-rah, hoo-rah, we bring the Jubilee...
	Hoo-rah, hoo-rah, the flag that makes you free!... And so we
	sang the anthem from Atlanta to the sea, As we were marching
	through Georgia!" Freeing the slaves, that was our one Jubilee;
	yes, that was part of the ancient Jubilee too, all the slaves
	were to be freed when the Jubilee year came, even those who
	were in the middle of their individual seven-year term of 
	service. But even in 1865, America never did the other part, 
	never shared the land. That was what "forty acres and a mule"
	meant -- sharing the land, doing the Jubilee right. We never did,
	and now look where we are...

     	
Saddled with _Forty Acres and a Goat_.

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