Violence and Non-violence for Arabs: the White Man Judgeth | As‘ad AbuKhalil
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But the Western standards have shifted in the last year.
Advocates of Weberian principles have forgotten about their previous preachings. They not only urged the arming of Libyan NATO militias, but they considered violence to be the most glorious form of struggle.
Even the religious fanatics of the Free Syrian Army gangs of Syria are hailed and praised. Liberal and Western academics and journalists – people who never met an act of violence by Palestinians that they did not fiercely condemn even when directed against Israeli occupation targets – are now enthusiastically urging the arming of Syrian rebels.