quoteIn her syndicated column, Klein wrote, “It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.”
I am so sorry but Ms Klein is death wrong!!!!! Who put down the apartheid in South Africa was the blood , sweat and heroicicity of the Cuban people, Not EWlton John refuse to play or who ever hell was at that time I don’t know How American can forget this??????
Wow, great. Let’s boycott the only democracy in the region. If Israel is SOOOO bad, how come all the Muslim and Christian citizens aren’t boycotting Jewish owned shops and restaurants? If Israel is SOooo bad ,then why are Arab Muslims running for Parliament? Israel is a free country and gives the most amount of Aid to the Palestinians following the US and Jordan. They’re not under any legal or moral obligation to do so because theirs was a small country partitioned by the UN in 1947. Back then, Israel had less territory then it did after the Muslim Arab states attacked it, and lost, in 1967. It’s tough luck on those refugees. But time to start getting the UN and all the donor agencies to monitor where money goes in the PA (eg cronyism) instead of accusing Israel of Apartheid. It’s really sick and twisted to accuse Israel of that when those living inside Israel have full citizenship, and the refugees are not citizens but are being portrayed as such (2nd class). They’re not citizens by default . Futhermore, UNWRA still classifies 1.8M citizens of Jordan as Palestinian Refugees. There is something wrong and it’s not Israel’s fault for existing. Anyone who knows the history of Apartheid AND the history of Israel (like, Jewish sovereignty there predates muslims’, and Jews are indigenous to Israel/Palestine) needs to give up the facade.
Posted by Miriam on Apr 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM
wow Miriam you do not know nothing…Israel
a nation that has violated every norm of civilized behavior and international law since its founding in 1948.
wacth this documentary when you have time
http://video.google.de/videoplay…819867080& hl=de and we can talk but you are deth wrong
Sure, I know nothing. Like the UN Resolution 181that actually partitioned Israel into two states. Ha ha, remember that? A two state solution in 1974? Remember that the Babylonians exiled the Jews, or that the Romans finished off the Kingdom of Israel in 70AD? Israel, when founded, was attacked by the surrounding arab states. They’re the ones that violated an international agreement instituting the State of Israel. When Egypt closed the straits of Tehran and kicked out the UN peace keeping force in 67, it wasn’t breaking any international law or demonstrating a lack of civilized behavior under your paradigm of it. Nice double standard. Israel is smaller than New Jersey. Where do you want the Jews to go? They’ve been kicked out of most countries in the history of western civilization, ghettoed, or treated as second class citizens. Having lived there on a Fulbright scholarship, having been in classes with a diverse student body, having seen first hand the incredible treatment of Palestinians by Israeli doctors, having seen schools and buses blown up by Arab terrorists who don’t want peace for their own people but only destruction of the Jewish state, then I can say I know exactly what I’m talking about and you are the one that is completely misinformed—and selectively so.
Posted by Miriam on Apr 5, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Partition in 1947. Typo
Posted by Miriam on Apr 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM
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