[Marxism] Mumbai: train station, hospital...chabad lubavitch....well-known sites of middle class collaboration

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:34:39 -0800 (PST)
>From: Anon Anon <inprekorr at yahoo.com>
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>Aaron Aarons wrote:
>> aimed at the ruling class and their middle-class collaborators, rather
> > than at proletarians. Based on what I know so far,

Please keep those last seven words in mind when responding to me!

> > [continued from above] I don't feel any need to criticize those who carried out these attacks in Mumbai.
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>At Least 100 Dead in India Terror Attacks
>MUMBAI, India - Coordinated terrorist attacks struck the heart of Mumbai,
>India's commercial capital, on Wednesday night, killing dozens in
>machine-gun and grenade assaults on at least two five-star hotels, the
>city's largest train station, a movie theater and a hospital.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/world/asia/27mumbai.html?bl&ex=1227934800&en=e69773c4efd24c5c&ei=5087%0A

Thanks for the link. The following shorter link works too:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/world/asia/27mumbai.html>

>Jewish rabbi, family being held hostage by Mumbai gunmen: group
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>MUMBAI: A Jewish rabbi and his family have been taken hostage by gunmen involved in a string of coordinated attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai, India's Jewish Federation told.
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>"The name of the place is Chabad house in South Mumbai. I hear commandos are storming the apartment block, which is a four-storey building. A rabbi is in there with his family," Indian Jewish Federation chairman Jonathan Solomon said.
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>"I don't know the number of gunmen in there. I don't know how many family members are in there," he added.
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>http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Jewish_rabbi_family_being_held_hostage_by_Mumbai_gunmen_group/articleshow/3763235.cms

from <http://Haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1041569.html>:

>Anxiously awaiting news of their daughter's fate in Mumbai, the Rosenberg family was ensconced in prayer at their home in Afula ["Israel"] on Thursday. Rivka, 28, and her husband, Gabriel Holtzberg, 30, a Chabad emissary in Mubmai, are one of a number of Israelis being held hostage by armed terrorists [sic!] who have stormed into the Chabad house in the city.
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>The family has received reports indicating that the terrorists [sic!] have released their two-year-old son, Moshe Tzvi, and their caretaker. Rivka's father, Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, said the family has been stationed in India these last five years as Chabad representatives. Prior to their Mumbai posting, they had spent time in Thailand.

For those who don't know it, Chabad is an extreme chauvinist Jewish organization that is heavily involved in the oppression of the Palestinian people. I would no more care for the safety of this rabbi than I would for a representative of the Ku Klux Klan. Better than killing him, though, it would be great if his captors could trade him for a very large shipment of food and supplies to Gaza, and the release of Palestinian prisoners in the jails of Isra-Hell.

It may turn out, when I know more, that I will be critical of many aspects of this guerrilla attack. But the seizure of this racist rabbi is not one of those aspects.

 - Aaron