The discussion that follows was prompted by the article: Bilan and the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine. The discussion was initiated by LoneLondoner.
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27 October, 2014 - 21:27
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Bilan and the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine
Just a brief note to bring to comrades' attention that we have just put online and article originally published in Bilan in the 1930s on the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine, which remains thoroughly relevant to understanding the genesis of the present situation in the Middle East
Yesterday I wrote a post here about the troubles in the holy Land and Palestinians murdering worshippers in a Synagogue and how the Jewish authorities punished the families of the young men who committed the atrocity by demolishing their family houses, and so on. It wasn't a very good post I daresay and it ended with a quote from "Ezekiel" (Old Testament) which was construable by some I suppose as not acceptable material for a communist site.
Anyway, when I tried to post it it was erased on the grounds that this web site was "down" though when I checked in fact it wasn't. And then early this morning I noticed a message above telling me I wasn't allowed to post on this web site, though it's gone again now and here I am.
At first I thought: oh well. Never mind. It wasn't such a brilliant post and was biblical which might give devout communists taking themselves seriously cause for concern. And really the only reason I'm writing this now is because I was told I couldn't and wasn't allowed to. It's childish of course. But if some scrutinizing judgemental "web master" or other, really objected to my post (and I know web masters and the like can read what you write on an iPad as you write it, should they happen to be logged in at the time and once got direct evidence one time of this happening) then I think he should have intervened directly and got in touch with me to explain and discuss.
But enough for now....A slightly discomforted Fred.
Fred, probably a technical hitch. But you never know!
I was very surprised when I read the title of this post/article. I haven't read all of it so hopefully I've missed something but the framing of the question seems totally off even the conclusion is a concern. No mention of workers or capitalists.
I don't know if it's a hitch or hitches radicalchains
hitch (1) . When I pressed "save" having completed my post 'live" in the space provided, like now, I got the "Drupal" notice saying the web site was down. If it was down how did I complete my post? I returned immediately to the site which was up, but my post had gone.
hitch (2). I returned to the site and this thread about 18 hours later. I was shocked to find a message in a yellow banner across the top of the thread saying: "You are not authorized to post here." It didn't say "you are not allowed" as I indicated in my post above, but "You are NOT AUTHORIZED" to post".
Somewhat surprised I retreated to get a breather. When I returned about half an hour later the offending message in yellow had been removed. What to make of this? Does it matter? I don't know.
About your second point that the article this thread is connected to doesn't mention workers or capitalists...in fact it does. Specially in part two.