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Posted By hyperbola 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsFor 100 years, nonviolent protest has been a major component of Palestinian resistance to zionist crimes against humanity. More and more of the world is joining in sanctions on Israel and zionism.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 6 months ago
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There are boycotts, and there are boycotts: what sort of boycott will it take to persuade Israel to modify its repressive and genocidal policies vis-a-vis the Palestinian peoples?
When the word "boycott" is used, one immediately thinks of a campaign to economically isolate the targeted society (in this case, Israel). the problem is that an economic boycott of Israel would quickly become a disaster for the Palestinians who suffer under that nation's control. As precious resources become scarcer (presumably a consequence of any concerted economic boycott), the Israelis will reserve these resources to the exclusive use of the Jewish population, and cut off the Palestinians entirely. Thus, a well-intentioned boycott in support of Palestinian freedoms would instead have the effect of exposing them to even more intense deprivation. We need to go carefully into this, lest we be indirectly responsible for starving Palestinian children under the guise of helping them.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 6 months ago
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The author is a member of an organization called the "Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)." An academic and cultural boycott of Israel is a method of expressing world disgust with the cruelty and injustice inflicted by the Israelis upon the Palestinians, without the immediate consequence of bringing physical harm to the people we want to help. That seems to me a very good idea.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Well Oscar, that seems resonable, but in fact at present the Palestinians are practically being starved by the zionists, so it can't get much worse for them. Frankly about six months of a total boycott on business, oil and investment would end zionist terrorism - it is time.
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Thinker221 year, 6 months ago
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> There are boycotts, and there are boycotts: what sort of boycott will it take to persuade Israel to modify its repressive and genocidal policies vis-a-vis the Palestinian peoples?
No boycott will persuade Israel to commit a national suicide. On the other hand, if the Palestinian people and their leaders will modify THEIR policies, will stop violence and will negotiate a peace agreement Israeli policies will change accordingly.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Time for the world to put an end to a century of terrorism by a zionist minority (35% of Palestinians) in Palestine. This israeli puts your lies to shame.
Oren Ben-Dor: Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?
... What exactly is being defended by the violence in Gaza and Lebanon? Is it the citizens of Israel or the nature of the Israeli state? I suggest the latter. Israel's statehood is based on an unjust ideology which causes indignity and suffering for those who are classified as non-Jewish by either a religious or ethnic test. To hide this primordial immorality, Israel fosters an image of victimhood. Provoking violence, consciously or unconsciously, against which one must defend oneself is a key feature of the victim-mentality. By perpetuating such a tragic cycle, Israel is a terrorist state like no other.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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...Many who wish to hide the immorality of the Israeli state do so by restricting attention to the horrors of the post-1967 occupation and talking about a two-state solution, since endorsing a Palestinian state implicitly endorses the ideology behind a Jewish one.
The very creation of Israel required an act of terror. In 1948, most of the non-Jewish indigenous people were ethnically cleansed from the part of Palestine which became Israel. This action was carefully planned. Without it, no state with a Jewish majority and character would have been possible. Since 1948, the "Israeli Arabs", those Palestinians who avoided expulsion, have suffered continuous discrimination. Indeed, many have been internally displaced, ostensibly for "security reasons", but really to acquire their lands for Jews.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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... To sustain that mentality and to preserve an impression of victimhood among outsiders, Israel must breed conditions for violence. Whenever prospects of violence against it subside, Israel must do its utmost to regenerate them: the myth that it is a peace-seeking victim which has "no partner for peace" is a key panel in the screen with which Israel hides its primordial and continuing immorality...
...The truth is that there never could have been a partition of Palestine by ethically acceptable means. Israel was created through terror and it needs terror to cover-up its core immorality. Whenever there is a glimmer of stability, the state orders a targeted assassination, such as that in Sidon which preceded the current Lebanon crisis, knowing well that this brings not security but more violence. Israel's unilateralism and the cycle of violence nourish one another.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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...Amidst the violence and despite the conventional discourse which hides the root of this violence, actuality calls upon us to think. The more we silence its voice, the more violently actuality is sure to speak.
... Silence about the immoral core of Israeli statehood makes us all complicit in breeding the terrorism that threatens a catastrophe which could tear the world apart....
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...
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Edmar141 year, 6 months ago
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Hyperbola doesn't stop, she just keeps posting as if she thinks that post after post after post is going to actually influence anybody. Wake up, this is America. We are taught to think for ourselves and we also learn to recognize manipulation when we see it. God bless the USA.
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hyperbola1 year, 5 months ago
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You don't believe in the basic principles of american democracy Edmar - take your phony patriotism and propaganda with which you try to dupe americans into dying for zionist crimes against humanity with you when you depart for your country of first loyalty.
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