The Gazelle and the Falcon

Gazelles like to die among their people. Falcons don’t care where they die. – Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun : A novel: Three men die in a strange way.

There is a lesson in this interview for the Lebanese government.

Richard Carleton: Why won’t your organization engage in peace talks with the Israelis?

Ghassan Kanafani: You don’t mean exactly peace talks, you mean capitulation, surrendering.

Interview with Ghassan Kanafani, 1970, before Mossad blew him up with a car bomb. I was wondering whether you might like to put this link up on WBT? Hearing him was useful for me! Gifted writer etc and he “cuts through” perfectly re what the resistance are doing. – GW.

Richard Carleton: Why not just talk?

Ghassan Kanafani: Talk to whom?

Richard Carleton: Talk to the Israeli leaders.

Ghassan Kanafani: That’s a kind of conversation between the sword and the neck, you mean.

Richard Carleton: Better live than dead, though.

Ghassan Kanafani: Maybe to you, but to us it’s not. To liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights, is something as essential as life itself.”

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Very important rally given Israel’s massive ethnic cleansing campaign going on in Lebanon. Please come if you can.

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