BDS goes mainstream
Yesterday we posted a Naftali Bennett video for the upcoming Israeli election that treats the boycott movement, BDS, as a force that Israel has to contend with.
Well here’s more evidence of BDS’s effect in Israel, from Tzipi Livni’s facebook page (thanks to Ofer Neiman, but link unavailable to me). The bus ad translates:
Bibi and Lieberman: international boycott
Tzipi Livni: political agreement
Brought to the public as food for thought by Hatnua [Livni’s “The Movement” party]
Tzipi Livni. The leaked Wikileaks papers from the negotiations from Annapolis should have cemented the role she has.
Her basic strategy is to be Bibi lite. Return to the negotiations, which she knows won’t lead anymore. Her real complaint is not over substance – it’s over style. Bibi is too brash for her taste but fundamentally, they are the same politican on Apartheid.
P.S.
In a recent meeting with foreign diolomats she let the pose slip:
“The world is mistaken on settlements” she said.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=295610
Actually, it isn’t. That’s the problem, the world knows too well what those settlements, and the brutalization of an imprisoned people it requires, actually means. But that isn’t the issue. The issue is that Livni is no liberal. Never was. Never will be.
P.P.S.
Here is Larry Derfner, of 972 magazine, essentially making the same point:
http://972mag.com/a-real-alternative-tzipi-livni-is-far-worse-than-netanyahu/63715/
He calls her ‘far worse’ than Bibi. That’s hyperbole. Just the same is more exact, but the gist of his piece is basically what I just wrote. She is of the same cloth.
Not to worry. Anybody think Hagel, if appointed, and his boss, Obama, will repeat what Hagel told the US Senate in 02–that “Palestinians are in chains”? Or that, as Hagel also said, “terrorism” refers to a tactic and a war on it is just plain stupid–the point is to use America’s might to rebuild its own fallen reputation, which was its best asset and the linchpin for a long-term effective defense: responding with some awareness and effective help for those getting the very short end of the stick in the Middle East, especially the Palestinians–soft power that is balanced is most effective as strategy.
The Israeli leaders don’t actually think Israel proper would ever be boycotted…they still believe in the Jewish holocaust shield for Israel.
I don’t really think Israel will be officially boycotted or sanctioned either by the powers that be…..until the last minute and it’s too late.
I get the same feeling about Israel that I got when reading thru the nazi papers and documents….it was like watching a drawn out Hitchcock horror movie where the audience can see the killer moving closer and closer and you are sitting on the edge of your seat wanting to shout at the characters in the movie because they don’t see him.
although it seems couter-intuitive we need to support the election/ascension of the most extreme elements to the leadership in israel and the U.S. Republican Party – sometimes for a virus to clear the body more quickly it needs to burn hot first
One big mistake that people do is to consider Israel in isolation. It is not the holocaust that is its main shield anymore but how low the Arab world (the “opposite side”) scores in most people eyes in just about any segment you can think of (modernity, women rights, democracy, free speech, bigotry, education and sure enough the proneness to violence). That is even likely true in regard to the Palestinians in the West-Bank – a love-hate (or perhaps hate-like) attitude towards Israel. Don`t like it too much but more afraid from the alternatives (which they nightly watch on TV, from Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt,….).