Gilles Deleuze on Palestine

In this episode, I present Gilles Deleuze's writings on Palestine: "Stones," "Spoilers of Peace," "The Indians of Palestine," and the "Grandeur of Yasser Arafat."

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[MhmdHamdan-co]

hello David. I'm a lebanese philosopher. Thank you for this episode. It's really brilliant!

[apollicino]

Found you while working on some Foucault homework, very pleasantly surprised to find this video. The silence in higher edu around this issue is deafening (even among faculty that litter their syllabi with critical theory). Thank you for doing this. ✊📖🌿

[peaceforall]

Just came across your channel, thank you so much for taking a stand

[PessimistAudiobooks]

Thanks for being the only public, yt/podcast continental philosophy guy with courage and a sense of justice.

[AmrShedou]

David, I would like to thank you for talking about this topic, thank you a million times❤️❤️ Palestine needs our support

[JasonAfeared]

Hello again. I am so happy that you are continuing to educate me and others on the horrors of not only today, but the past, and the likely future. I have made a small donation and encourage others with any spare income to do so as well.

Thank you again.

[sumaiyarafi-vk]

Thank you so much. You are incredible.

[niki_singing]

❤️🙏 Thank you for this excellent video and for using your platform

[JohnSmith-ijms]

i ❤ this channel. thank you for doing this keep up your great work love from Australia

[muniaislam]

Calling a spade, a spade. Great video! From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!

[rojdaaksoy]

Years ago, while researching Judith Butler, I came across your channel, David. How fortunate I was to find it, and I am grateful to have access to the content you share with such dedication. From rivers to the sea, Palestine will be free! It is very valuable for everyone to support this just resistance as much as they can, from wherever they are. Greetings from Istanbul!

[fatimaabdallah]

Wonderful, David ❤ the Palestinian spirit you discuss for Stones has been theorized as "sumud" -- the Arabic word for steadfastness. Also, thank you for connecting Palestinian and Lebanese histories because, speaking as a Lebanese-Palestinian from South Lebanon, they are intertwined; we won't forget that the 1982 invasion was called Operation Litani, where Zio.nists wanted to occupy all of the land south of the Litani river.

[silvio]

Also interesting to note the Heideggerean vibes in the first ‘Stones’ essay

[thavishchetty]

Great video! Important insights being conveyed here. Thank you for making this. May Palestine be free!❤🍉

[belami]

Sartre too was une petite souris when it came to the question of Palestine, read the long article by the late Edward Said in Le Monde about his meeting with Sartre in Paris

[thecomrade]

I always find it interesting when outsiders refuse to engage in the language of resistance around martyrdom, its almost as if you can only resist within a western, liberal lens. There is a specific and relevant discourse and practice around becoming martyrs and skirting around it is a bit of blatant erasure of their culture, ways of knowing, and experience. Resistance is resistance, even if its unpalatable to westerners.

[gm]

Rashid Khalidis 100 years war on Palestine is a must read, and actually is very pertinent specifically to the section of this video about Arafat . One of the ways that Israel has undermined Palestinians is through their selection or destruction of the Palestinian leadership. Israel has dedicated vast amounts of resources to the destruction of the Palestinian intellectual class, through the assassination of poets, writers, journalists, intellectual and politicians' that they were concerned would be too beneficial to the Palestinian cause. Khalidi argues that one of the results of this has been a degradation of the quality of leadership available to the Palestinians, of course through no fault of their own or of even the leaders that made it out of the other side of this selection process, can't blame a fish for not getting caught. Downstream of this is the fact that Israel has the power to choose which group it wants to "negotiate" with inside of the Palestinian political class, and can subvert the Palestinian cause through the promise of power to groups they wish to bolster, as they did with the PLO in the 90s, in exchange for giving the PLO a sort of monopoly on violence and control in Palestine, the PLO became Israel's internal enforcement. Israel can choose to recognize or not recognize the authority of the PLO, the PNA, Hamas, and bestow powers upon them because in actuality, Israel is the sovereign of Palestine. It controls taxation and government funding in Palestine, it controls Palestine's water and air space, and even the internal movement of Palestinians in Palestine not just in war time but even when there aren't active military conflicts between Israel and Palestine. thPalestinians are subjects of a regime that denies that they are its subjects, This is the part that Zionist western leaders and Zionists want you to forget about and be blind to, they want you to only think about 10/7, but not to think about the region on the days that CNN isn't there.

[aaka]

Thanks for doing this! You know, a lot of people don’t know this, but it was an Israeli who assassinated his own PM when they were on the verge of peace, breaking it down, which the West constantly blame Palestines and Arafat for. Yigal Amir, an Israeli law student and ultranationalist who radically opposed prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace initiative, particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.

[ailblentyn]

We are all Palestinians. We say that aspirationally, because we are inspired by their courage.

[sgmovies]

In the Bible, Joshua 21:43-44 states:
“So the Lord gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it and dwelt in it. The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. Not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass”.

This passage suggests that the Israelites had already taken possession of all the land that God had promised to their forefathers even before the creation of modern State of Israel.

So where is the second promise from God that stated Jews can repossess all land of Palestine? The idea only originated from Zionists.

The promise of land belonging to the Children of Israel is never eternal. It comes with conditions:
Psalm 37:29 states that “The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever”. This passage is often interpreted as a promise of God’s blessing for those who live righteously. It is believed that the righteous will be rewarded with a place in the land of Israel, which is often referred to as the “promised land”.

If Zionists claim that G-d had given the land of Palestine to the Jews is true, then why Abraham had to negotiate with the Hittites to purchase a burial plot for his wife, Sarah [Genesis 23]? Why didn't Abraham just take the land like the Zionists did?