The Politics of Betrayal
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But what if betrayal is far more complex than going back on a promise? The story of Judas narrates one such complication. The translation of "betray" is "to hand or give over. Judas's last appearance in the story before accompanying the soldiers to arrest Jesus occurs during the final meal shared between Jesus and his disciples. Satan enters into Judas.
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He exits, going out into the night. His crossing over to the dark side is complete. Yet, when we get to the scene of Jesus' arrest in John In the other Gospels, Judas identifies Jesus with a kiss.
In John's Gospel, there is no kiss, no identification at all of Jesus. We know only that "he was standing with them," presumably with the Jewish police representing the chief priests and Pharisees and the Roman soldiers.
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Jesus comes forward out of the garden, of his own accord, and willingly gives himself up to the authorities. The arrest scene is the last we ever hear of Judas in John's story. There is no recounting of remorse or repentance to explain Judas's actions. Greed is never given to justify his betrayal. And there is no act of suicide to assuage guilt. Instead, John leaves us without answers, without reasons for Judas's behavior and with the lingering question of "why?
The answer to that seemingly simple question might be equally as simple. Only verses before the introduction of Judas, many of Jesus' disciples say, "This teaching is difficult; who can accept it? What if affronted by the challenges of Jesus' words, and even offended by them, Judas has no choice but to betray his teacher? However, he seems to be very accepting of fellow politicians, whatever their shortcomings. Even the most cynical critics of his policies agree that Moi was truly a patriot and a nationalist.
The Politics of Betrayal
Kenyans will always memorise sic Jomo Kenyatta, the founding father, for his great sacrifice to the Kenyan nation. He was a lion, a great African giant. Later on, on page to be precise, Khamisi informs us that a newspaper report entitled: The extended Kenyatta family alone….
Which, one would say, to put it mildly, is not an inconsiderable inheritance from the patriotic sacrifice of a close relation. However, there is a notable exception to this accommodating rule: As for Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka , he writes, I hope he will one day realise his miracle dreams.
The VP duly emerges as the villain of the piece, pathologically duplicitous and disloyal. As machination follows upon machination in the battle for State House, one discovers that Kalonzo Musyoka would not have been Vice President today if it had not been for….
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Read all about it in The Politics of Betrayal: Diary of a Kenyan Legislator! Only that it is not a diary, really.
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It is more like what can be called patchwork journalese. As one might expect from an author with a degree in journalism, and a qualified journalist at times too keen to show off his proficiency in the English language at that. Khamisi is particularly fond of the sentence quaintly loaded with all-encompassing description.
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Take, for example, this offering on a fellow legislator: He was no longer the callow, wispy young man with skinny legs who liked to frequent beer joints in the city. And this is the beginning of Chapter 5: Jerry Rubin and other '60s sell-outs Christopher Hitchens: Oedipal child returns to the establishment? The renegade 'mentality' Introduction to part IV 9.
Psychohistory Marxism, structuralism, and psychohistory The mentality of early twentieth century renegades: Mussolini, Parvus and others Adventurers to the end? Pankhurst Walsh, Stephensen, and Mosley Arthur Koestler, the twentieth century 'sceptic', and other cold war pilgrims From radicalism to fadism: Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
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