Comments on: The puffery of Israel “activists” and a woefully reckless ASUC resolution http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/comment/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/ i am not qualified to say this Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:19:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dina http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/comment/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1975 Dina Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:53:45 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/palestine/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/#comment-1975 well put. well put.

]]> By: S K http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/comment/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 S K Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:01:17 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/palestine/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/#comment-1959 Yaman,,First time visiting your blog, and Iam impressed keep up the good the work. Yaman,,First time visiting your blog, and Iam impressed keep up the good the work.

]]> By: yaman http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/comment/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1949 yaman Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:51:21 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/palestine/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/#comment-1949 This is the most often employed as well as the most absurd red herring ever employed regarding Palestine and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. The truth is, of course, that the Israeli government's criminal behavior long precedes any violence that Palestinians have recently committed against Israelis. These injustices predated even the founding of Israel as a state in 1948. It is true, that here and there, especially lately, people have turned to violence to wreak havoc on an Israeli public that they feel could care less about their plight--such indiscriminate actions against civilians are never justified, but the fact that they happen does not vindicate the Israeli government in doing what it has <i>always</i> done; it just makes it easier for people like you to stray away from the important issues at hand. Is it really the case that if rockets stop coming out of Gaza--rockets that have killed less people in the past 5 years than Israel has killed Palestinians in the past month or two--that the Israeli government will suddenly dismantle all of the illegal Jewish-only colonies in the West Bank that it has been erecting since the 1960s? Is it really the case that if the rockets stop, the Israeli government will naturalize all those who were kicked out of their homes in 1948? Is it really the case that the Israeli government, if rockets are stopped, is going to reverse all its discriminatory laws that have led to the demolition of tens of thousands of Palestinian homes? I don't think that is the case. And it doesn't take much thought to figure that out, that the Israeli government will continue its hegemonic project of separating the Arab population of Palestine from the Jewish population, and then doing all it can do to control it. So when you talk about this so-called "neighbor" which allegedly gives "food and sustenance" to the Palestinians, keep in mind that you are actually talking about a government which has a position so immoral, and so low, that it holds the very prospect of basic humanitarian goods over the heads of innocent Palestinian civilians as blackmail--as if these goods come from Israel in the first place (you are actually talking about the Israeli government <i>allowing</i> those goods to go through: to which you really must ask, why is it that Israel can decide whether or not the Palestinians can get food, in the first place?) Thanks for stopping by though. This is the most often employed as well as the most absurd red herring ever employed regarding Palestine and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. The truth is, of course, that the Israeli government’s criminal behavior long precedes any violence that Palestinians have recently committed against Israelis. These injustices predated even the founding of Israel as a state in 1948. It is true, that here and there, especially lately, people have turned to violence to wreak havoc on an Israeli public that they feel could care less about their plight–such indiscriminate actions against civilians are never justified, but the fact that they happen does not vindicate the Israeli government in doing what it has always done; it just makes it easier for people like you to stray away from the important issues at hand. Is it really the case that if rockets stop coming out of Gaza–rockets that have killed less people in the past 5 years than Israel has killed Palestinians in the past month or two–that the Israeli government will suddenly dismantle all of the illegal Jewish-only colonies in the West Bank that it has been erecting since the 1960s? Is it really the case that if the rockets stop, the Israeli government will naturalize all those who were kicked out of their homes in 1948? Is it really the case that the Israeli government, if rockets are stopped, is going to reverse all its discriminatory laws that have led to the demolition of tens of thousands of Palestinian homes?

I don’t think that is the case. And it doesn’t take much thought to figure that out, that the Israeli government will continue its hegemonic project of separating the Arab population of Palestine from the Jewish population, and then doing all it can do to control it. So when you talk about this so-called “neighbor” which allegedly gives “food and sustenance” to the Palestinians, keep in mind that you are actually talking about a government which has a position so immoral, and so low, that it holds the very prospect of basic humanitarian goods over the heads of innocent Palestinian civilians as blackmail–as if these goods come from Israel in the first place (you are actually talking about the Israeli government allowing those goods to go through: to which you really must ask, why is it that Israel can decide whether or not the Palestinians can get food, in the first place?)

Thanks for stopping by though.

]]> By: Yasir Arafat http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/comment/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1948 Yasir Arafat Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:31:47 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/2007/11/02/palestine/the-puffery-of-israel-activists-and-a-woefully-reckless-asuc-resolution/#comment-1948 That's funny, because I was under the impression that people in Gaza are starving because a front for terrorists, who publicly and proudly proclaim their lust for the violent destruction of their neighbor, are in government and leading Gaza. Here's a wacky thought. Maybe don't expect the neighbor whom you depend on for food and sustanance to keep feeding you when you keep sending people to self detonate in their pizza shops and buses. Just a thought.... That’s funny, because I was under the impression that people in Gaza are starving because a front for terrorists, who publicly and proudly proclaim their lust for the violent destruction of their neighbor, are in government and leading Gaza.

Here’s a wacky thought. Maybe don’t expect the neighbor whom you depend on for food and sustanance to keep feeding you when you keep sending people to self detonate in their pizza shops and buses.

Just a thought….

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