Across Divides, against the Grain: On "Negotiations: From a Piece of Land to a Land of Peace"
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Abstract
The current Palestinian Intifada is not simply a localized nalionalist response to the repressive Israeli occupation and its war machine. Rather, it is local, regional, and global in its dimensions and implications. It is important to rethink the practices through which we respond to the conflict and the struggles of the Palestinian people as part of our anti-imperialist interventions and in our international/transnational practices of solidarity. Negotiations was a multi-part arts-driven event staged in Toronto in June 2003 by artisits, activists and academics who felt the urgency to respond to the escalation of war in Palestine-Israel in solidarity with Palestinian struggles towards a just peace. L'infada palestinienne de notre epoque n'est pas seulement une reponse Iocale et nationaliste a l'occupation repressive par l'etat d'Israel sa machine de guerre. Les dimensions et les implications de l'infada sont locales, regionales et globales. II importe de considerer les pratiques de nos interventions anti-imperialistes et de nos pratiques de solidarite internationale el transnationale par lesquelles nous repondons au conflit et aux luttes du peuple palestinien. En juin 2003, des artistes, des activistes et des universitaires torontois avaient cree Negociations, un evenement multidisciplinaire qui soulignait l'urgence qu'il y a de repondre a I'escalade de la guerre entre la Palestine et l'Israel el de manifester notre solidarite avec la lutte des Palestiniens pour la paix. ********** Beyond its unequally tragic impact on the daily lives of Palestinians and Jews in the region and in diaspora, the on-going conflict in Palestine-Israel is of particular global significance. Emerging through complex histories of European colonialista, this conflict challenges current-day activists to confront the efforts to strip io of its historical dimensions and reduce it to the question of the Palestinian territories that were occupied by Israel in 1967. Such amnesiac discourses are not just lacking in critical readings and engagements, they are also incapable of recovering different possibilities for existence and/or co-existence in the present and future. The failure to offer resolutions to issues such as the right of return for Palestinian refugees of 1948--an issue that has been consistently a source of tension and divergence, if not of breakdown, in all the so-called peace negotiations--is symptomatic of the paralysis endemic to such amnesiac discourses. Moreover, the Palestine-Israel conflict remains hostage to US imperialist interventions, wars, investments and policies in the Middle East. Both the 1990 and the 2003 wars on Iraq show that attempts to draw the region's societies and economies into the orbit of a world order have been marketed through European-proposed and/or US-brokered initiatives that presumably will bring peace to Palestine-Israel and stability and security to the economies and countries in the region. Both Oslo and the Roadmap directly followed the wars on Iraq. The imbrication of Palestine-Israel conflict within colonialist histories and imperialist politicking challenges international/ transnational activists to rethink the Palestinian struggles in their local, regional, and global dimensions. The Second Palestinian Intifada, which erupted in September 2000, presents us with the invaluable opportunity to expose the inextricable links among the local, regional, and global coordinates of power as they manifest themselves in the Palestinian struggles for liberation and self-determination. A new instance in the ongoing Palestinian anti-colonialist struggles since 1897, the Intifada is not simply a localized nationalist response to the repressive Israeli occupation and its war machine, as even the best of the liberal discourses want us to believe. Rather, the Intifada is local, regional, and global in its dimensions and implications. It is an insurgence against the Israeli occupation, against the political and financial corruption of the Palestinian Authority, against the open-door and normalizing policies of the Arab regimes, and against American dreams of sole-hegemony in the region and, by extension, in the world. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".