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‘Occupy Boston’ takes on the the occupation of Palestine

From the JTA:

Tuesday’s march, under the moniker Occupy Boston –Not Palestine, was held in conjunction with dozens of members of Jewish Women for Justice in Palestine at Dewey Square, the center of the Occupy Boston movement, according to a report in the The Daily Free Press, a Boston University independent student publication.

The protesters linked arms and marched down the street chanting slogans.

Protesters told the student newspaper that Israel uses U.S. tax dollars to occupy Palestine, and that the new Middle East will marginalize the United States over its relationship with Israel.

“We need to build houses in the U.S. instead of destroying houses in Palestine,” Murray said. “The occupation has gone on for so long because the U.S. vetoed 41 valid U.N. Security Council resolutions. They’ve given Israel the green light to abuse human rights,” Nancy Murray of Boston told the student newspaper.

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“They’ve given Israel the green light to abuse human rights,” Nancy Murray of Boston told the student newspaper. ”

Yep…that’s the crux of it.
US politicians take political money in exchange for letting Israel kill and steal.
Blood money….plain and simple.

Proud to have been with them last night. Nancy Murray is a cool lady, man.

Much as I like to see such demonstrations, I am not sure they are tactically sound at the moment. Although there are complex linkages among the various issues, trying to include them all is likely to lead to confusion and diffusion of the force of the Occupy movement. And of course, it opens the door for the “anti-Semitic” whine.

I think the emphasis should be kept on the “hang the bankers and eat the rich” message. That is something that everyone (except the bankers and the rich) understands and approves of.

When you see this in the main stream press you will know that’s it’s unraveling. Hence the danger, a great danger, war is looking very attractive to desperate politicians.
Hej!

If five wars haven’t raised the approval rating of this Wall Street-owned government, two or three more won’t either. Excessive military expansion is the mark of an empire about to fall.