Parody
Parody "Israel Kills Palestinian Activist" —Washington Post headline, August 28, 2001 "Palestinian anger increases each time Israeli troops attempt to kill one of their activists." —NPR's...
...I was at Bennington College, studying pottery, interpretive dance, and jewelry making,” he says, when he began organizing a Nestlé boycott...
...They’re hysterically funny...
...The Bomb Guys figure it out for them...
...On the other hand, he knows he should be out collecting signatures for the anti-fur petitions he sends to Neiman Marcus...
...During the 1970s, he became disillusioned with the course of his career as an activist, he recalls...
...But then I found that the Palestinian state radio has shows just like it...
...Zibri, who coordinates CNN’s coverage of the Middle East in his spare time, discovered his activism early on...
...It was just an endless round of anti-nuke rallies, hijackings, and Olympic massacres...
...In the first place, I wouldn’t be able to listen to NPR anymore...
...I thought I was going to hate leaving Berkeley,” Zibri says...
...There’s ‘Morning Jihad’ and ‘The Bomb Guys.’ Suicide bombers call in who are having trouble getting their explosives to detonate...
...I know that if us activists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine aren’t out there each morning, then the activists from Islamic Jihad and Hamas will be, and they’ll end up with more signatures,” Zibri says...
...NPR's "Morning Edition," August 24, 2001 Mustafa Zibri: An Activist With a Cause By LEE HOCKSTADER Washington Post Foreign Service BEDOLAH, Gaza Strip—Palestinian activist Mustafa Zibri faces a dilemma each morning...
...Zibri smiles—even under the crushing jackboot of Israeli apartheid...
...His new activities didn’t have the global scope of some of his early activism, but he has found validation in one-on-one activity...
...I really started questioning what relevance it all had to everyday problems...
...Realizing that he could think globally, but bomb locally, Zibri moved to Tripoli, where he organized small scale highway shootings and school bus explosions...
...I consider consciousnessraising on the fur issue one of the most important things we do, right up there with blowing up Israeli teenagers,” Zibri adds...
...Pretty soon I was volunteering for Greenpeace and Amnesty International in the morning and spraying Jewish day-care centers with machine gun fire in the afternoon,” he recalls...
...On the one hand, he likes to lie around in bed listening to the “Joan Baez Hour” on Palestinian radio...
...Right now I’m involved in pushing the Zionist entity into the sea, but my first love is whole grains,” he notes...
...A few years ago, he moved to Palestine, after the Oslo process permitted all of the dispersed PLO activists to return to their homeland, bringing their mortars and high explosives with them...
...It was a really hectic time...
...Soon he had drifted out to Berkeley, and started working in organic health food stores...
Vol. 6 • September 2001 • No. 48
