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Ghada Karmi - Wikipedia

Ghada Karmi - Wikipedia

Ghada Karmi

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Ghada Karmi
غادة كرمي
Karmi in 2008
Born
Ghada Hasan Sa'id Karmi
غادة حسن سعيد كرمي

1939 (age 86–87)
Jerusalem
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Physician
  • academic
  • writer
FatherHasan Karmi

Ghada Karmi (Arabic: غادة كرمي, romanized: Ghādah Karmi; born 1939) is a Palestinian-born academic, physician and author. She has written on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies.

Early life and education

Karmi in a lecture in the University of Manchester during Israeli Apartheid Week, 2008

Karmi was born in Jerusalem to a Muslim family. Her father, Hasan Sa'id Karmi was Palestinian while her mother was Syrian;[1] she was the youngest child with an older brother and sister.[2] In her 2002 autobiography, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, she describes growing up in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Katamon, with its mixture of Palestinian Christians and Muslims. Among the family friends and neighbors was poet Khalil al-Sakakini and his family. Her family fled Jerusalem for Damascus, Syria, in April 1948 after Israel stole her villa.[3] The family eventually settled in Golders Green, in London, where her father worked for the BBC Arabic Service as a translator and broadcaster.[1]

Karmi studied medicine at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1964. Initially, she practised as a physician, specialising in the health and social conditions of ethnic minorities, migrants and asylum seekers.[4]

Academic career, activism and writings

Karmi was formerly married to someone she described in 2002 as a "quintessentially English boy" from a farming family near Bath.[5] The Six-Day War (Arab–Israeli war of 1967) led to the end of her marriage, as her husband and their friends were all on the side of Israel. She became a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization,[5] telling Donald Macintyre of The Independent in 2005 that she gained a "burning sense of injustice" around the events of her childhood.[3] Since 1972, she has been politically active for the Palestinian cause and gained a doctorate in the history of Arabic medicine from the University of London.[6]

Karmi is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University. She is also vice-chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU).[7]

She delivered the Edward Said Memorial lecture at the University of Adelaide in 2007.[4]

In her memoir, Return, Karmi describes a visit to her former home in Jerusalem following an invitation from Steven Erlanger, then the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times, who realised his apartment was built onto the Karmi family's house described in her book In Search of Fatima. The experience was painful for her and she wrote in Return: "All I could think of were the many alien people who had lived in these rooms after us, and how each one erased more and more of our presence there."[8]

Israel and Palestine

In an interview with Executive Intelligence Review (reprinted in Middle East Policy Journal), Karmi stated that:

"There is actually nothing — repeat, nothing — positive about the existence of Israel, as far as the Arabs are concerned. You know, sometimes there are events, historical events, that happen against people's will. But, in time, they can find some positive aspect to something they didn't want to happen in the first place. This is not the case with Israel. On the contrary, as time has gone on, the existence of Israel has only increased the problems for the Arab region. It has increased the danger in the Arab world and is a threat not only to the security of the region, but the security of the whole world."

She also stated that:

"Israel, from its inception in 1948, has been given the most wonderful opportunity to behave itself, and it clearly has not done so. It's flouted every single law, it's behaved outrageously, it's made a travesty of international and humanitarian law. On what basis should this state continue to be a member of the United Nations?"[9]

At the Palestinian Return Conference held at SOAS in January 2011, Karmi referred to the creation of Israel as involving the dispossession and theft of a whole country: "The only way to reverse that is on the basis of rights and justice; that is the right of return of the refugees and the dispossessed and the exiles back to their homeland." She was then quoted as stating:

"If that were to happen we know very well that that would be the end of a Jewish state in our region".[10]

At a protest as part of the Global March to Jerusalem held in front of the Israeli Embassy in London on March 30, 2012, Karmi stated "Israel is finished". She further stated: "Today, we are here together because we know, we understand what Israel is doing to Jerusalem" and that Jerusalem "does not belong to Jewish Israelis or to Jews. We respect all religions but we do not allow one group to take over this wonderful city." According to Karmi, Israel does not deserve to continue as a state and that "We have no alternative but to act. The only way we can stop Israel is to act against it, against its interests, against its apartheid and policies."[11][12]

In 2017, The Jewish Chronicle reported Karmi had said the word "untermensch", originally used as a description of Jews by the Nazis, could be legitimately used as a description of the relationship of Israel to the Palestinians at a conference held in Cork in the Republic of Ireland. Referring to an objection made against the use of the word, she said "about the use of the word 'untermesch'. Untermensch's equivalent in English is sub-human. And sub-human is how people in Gaza feel they are being treated by the Israeli army." According to her, the Jewish population in Palestine were "groups of foreign immigrants trying to behave as though they were indigenous" and "It is a foreign community who just turned up." The creation of Israel was "a stitch up from beginning to end" by the United Nations.[13]

Selected bibliography

Books

Articles

References

  1.  Llewellyn, Tim (7 May 2007). "Hasan Karmi". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  2.  Macintyre, Donald (18 May 2007). "Hasan Karmi". The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 July 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  3.  Macintyre, Donald (19 October 2005). "Fleeing Palestine: My right to return". The Independent. London. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  4.  "Doctor Ghada Karmi's Biography". Edward Said Memorial Lecture. University of Adelaide. 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014.
  5.  Barkham, Patrick (25 October 2002). "Forever in a foreign land". The Times. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  6.  "Author - Ghada Karmi". Open Democracy. Archived from the original on 21 July 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
  7.  "RSA - Karmi, Ghada".[dead link]
  8.  Lebor, Adam (9 July 2015). "Living, working and dying: the literature of occupied Palestine". New Statesman. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  9.  "Interview: Ghada Karmi, a voice from exile". Middle East Policy. 22 March 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2024. (Previously appeared in Executive Intelligence Review)
  10.  Millett, Richard (16 January 2011). "Ghada Karmi calls for 'the end of a Jewish state in our region'". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  11.  Paul, Jonny (1 April 2012). "British lecturer: Jerusalem doesn't belong to Jews". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  12.  Land Day In London, Alondon, April 4, 2012.
  13.  Halpin, Lee (2 April 2017). "Israel compared to Nazi Germany at Cork conference". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
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한때는 중국 시진핑을 진시황을 빗대 시황제라고 했는데, 지금은 시진핑보다 트럼프가 진시황 따라쟁이임이 분명하다.
 만리장성을 축조한 진시황처럼 멕시코국경 장벽을 쌓는 것으로 시황제같은 행보를 시작하더니, 수백 년 이어진 봉건 제후 질서를 해체하고 전례 없는 중앙집권 체제를 수립한 진시황처럼 트럼프 역시 2차 세계대전 이후 80년간 지속된 자유주의 국제질서(NATO, WTO, 동맹 체계)를 정면으로 흔들며 ‘미국 우선주의’로 재편하고 나섰다.
 사상 역사서들을 깡그리 불태우는 분서로 언로를 틀어막고, 이를 비판하는 유생 460명을 생매쟁한 갱유를 자행한 진시황처럼 트럼프도 비판 언론을 "가짜 뉴스(Fake News)", "국민의 적"으로 규정하고, 공영방송 예산을 삭감하는가하면 특정 언론사 출입 제한했다. 또 사법 입법부의 권한도 깡그리 무시하며 사법부 판결에 공개적으로 불복하고, 의회를 우회하는 행정명령을 남발하며 ‘황제적 대통령권’을 행사하고 있다. 이란을 침공해놓고도 의회의 승인을 받아야하는 전쟁이 아니라 '군사 작전(Military Operation)'이라며 견강부회하고 있다. 
 무섭기도 하고, 더럽기도 해서 참았던 미국인들도 더는 참을 수 없다고 거리로 쏟아져나왔다. 이번 3차 ‘노킹스’(왕을 거부한다) 시위엔 미국 전역에서 800여만명이 3300개 도시에 운집해 미국 역사상 최대 규모의 시위를 기록했다. 
 아방궁과 여산릉, 만리장성에 수백만 백성을 동원해 고혈을 짜낸 진시황처럼 온갖 이민단속, 전쟁, 그로인한 유가와 물가 폭등 등으로 미국민들도 ‘이제 더는 두고 볼수 없다’고 나선 것이다.  이번 시위엔 2024년 대선에서 트럼프가 66%의 득표율로 승리했던 아이다호주에서도 군중이 모여들었고, 알래스카 코츠뷰와 몬태나주 이스트글래이셔파크 같은 농촌 보수 지역에서도 여지없이 집회가 열렸다. 시위는 런던과 파리, 로마 등 유럽 전역에서도 이어졌다.
 로이터통신은 "트럼프 대통령 지지율은 36%로 꾸준히 하락세"라며 "이란 전쟁 찬성 비율은 35%, 경제 정책 지지율은 29%에 불과하다"고 밝히고 있다.
 중국 역사상 최고의 권력을 누린 진시황이지만 무절제한 권력 남용과 만행으로 49세에 처참한 말로를 맞이했다. 폭스튜스 앵커 출신인 국방부장관 헤그세스처럼 ‘입안의 혀’처럼 굴었던 진시황의 최측근 환관 조고와 승상 이사가 가장 먼저 배신했다. 진시황이 죽자마자 진정한 승계자인 장자 부소에게 사약을 내리고 가지고놀만한 호해를 왕으로 옹립해 중원 최초의 통일 제국 진은 진시황이 세상을 떠난지 4년만에 망하고 말았다. 조고와 이사는 지방 순행중 죽은 시황제의 죽음을 세상에 알리지않은채 수레에 싣고간 주검에서 썩은내가 진동하자 온갖 썩은 생선을 함께 실어서 이동해, 진시황이 가는 곳은 썩은내가 진동했다.
 엡스타인 파일, 그리고 큰건을 발표할때마다 정보가 사전에 빠져나가 누군가가 큰 부자가 된 이상징후, 가족 측근들의 잇권 개입... 트럼프와 그 주위에선 벌써부터 썩은내가 진동하고 있다.
 주역에서 보면 첫 번째 건괘에 용이 가장 높이 올라간 것을 항룡유회라고 한다. 기고만장 무절제하게 분탕질을 치면 아무리 용이라도 피를 철철 흘릴 수 밖에 없다는 것이다. 역사적 확률이 말해주는 것이다.
 설사 그 확률은 세계인이 만드는 것. 기원전 진시황 시대에조차 분탕질 친 황제는 처참만 말로를 맞이했는데, 21세기 백주에 이처럼 분탕질을 치는 미꾸라지를 더 방치해서는 안된다. 한두사람의 미꾸라지에게 80억, 아니 이후 세대까지의 수백억 수천억의 생명과 안전 목줄을 더는 맡겨둬서는 안된다는 의식이 지금 폭발해야할때다.
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