unique and indistinguishable

Why is it so hard to imagine the Palestinians as a people with their own aspirations, with plain, ordinary aspirations to live a decent life on their own land? It's that simple. Really.

What does it mean to say you can't recognize their humanity? Can you fucking recognize your own?

A common world for all.

Let's break this down:

A common world. For all.

That means: not assimilation into the dominant power structures but neither does it entail ghettoization (like 'the Muslim community').

Rebel-citizen:

That doesn't mean that if you gain power you replicate inequalities, the injustices you suffered on to other minorities...for all indicates a different type of politics. Sameness and difference, to be unique and indistinguishable. There are no more pariahs, outsiders, but also being brought in does not mean being a plank in the structure of dominance.

What do you want them to do? Content themselves with poetry, nature, their own suffering?

the conscious pariah
"aware of his position, becomes a rebel against it-the champion of an oppressed people. His fight for freedom is part and parcel of that which all the down-trodden..must needs wage to achieve national and social liberation".

"he does not recognize the class order of the world because he sees in it neither order not justice for himself"

It is society or the fundos or the state that has reduced him/her to the state of a non-entity, a nobody, someone not quite real. It is not a matter of choice.

"K, in his effort to become indistinguishable is interested only in universals, in things which are common to all mankind..[in becoming] a people like other
peoples".

"for only within the framework of a people can a man live as a man among men, without exhausting himself".

---citations, The Jew as Pariah, Hannah Arendt.