[New-imc] Jerusalem

[gekked at blackflag.net]

Petros Evdokas <petros_cyprus at burleehost.net> said:
> imc-Jerusalem. If you follow the discussions going on
> within and around the new-imc working group, you'll see
> that it keeps being reproduced by our American and
> European imc colleagues all over the world, who keep
> insisting to set up imc "sites" without building a
> political relationship with collectively oriented
> people - reliable radical activists - in each
> community.

While your presumptive comments are sure to do nothing more than
create more distractions for people who have been working on
IMC-Palestine for over a year now, I figured I would send an email in
reply. 

In fact, the technical team (comprised of people from the Middle East,
Italy, U.S.) is in contact with Bilal and the other "factions" that
came out of IMC-Palestine. I am personally in contact through email,
irc, and occasionally telephone.

IMC-Palestine has people actively working on solutions to problems
which are organizational -- not technical -- in Palestine, Italy,
Spain, the U.S. and Israel. In fact, the core team of internationals
include Arabs not living in Palestine, and we all have strong personal
and political relationships with a diversity of Palestinians from a
number of different groups, other Arabs in the region, and
pro-Palestinian supporters around the world.

I would ask that you at least try to find out what is going on before
making dismissive and inaccurate statements in public.

If you are ever interested in actually working on the problems that
have confronted Palestine IMC, get in touch. 

-gek, san francisco imc