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potsheard - i like the first line, very drole
natan's rebuke goes a bit over my head but my hebrew name is david.
oscar - this is a bit sensationalist. i am in palestine regularly enough participating in tours and demonstrations to know that is not the life of the the average palestinian. i take satisfaction from my life because i work hard and act to change things, as do many palestinians. life doesn't need to be so doom and gloom.
and mine is a goldstar.
no. it is my right to come and live on the land of israel.
it is actually quite beautiful
for sure there are times when you can only see the bad things and it seems to tinge it all, many friends express the same things. mostly however walking the land, watching the sunset, hiking the hills it is quite breathtaking, i feel lucky to live here, i often think if my family back the generations are watching they would be smiling.
sorry if this winds you up
this reply reminds me of god talking to abraham about sdom and amora. you go with god and i guess i would go with abraham.
i am a zionist and it isn't a dirty word
fine.
it is easy to criticise. in the grander scale of the issues raised in the news piece it is not so comment worthy.
vr - you are welcome to google me and find out who i am. it may not be what you think. i don't think i am one of 'them' per se.
my question was quite innocent and i see your point. i certainly understand turning to violence and aggression as a result of your environment. this i see every day in my work with refugees and survivors of genocide.
my point is just that you don't find Jewish labourers building houses in the settlements, only Palestinian ones. this is stupid, they should stop.
it is not quite 'cutting off your nose to spite your face' but something similar.
vr - it is less than necessary, it is illegal and immoral.
pursuit of 'gainful employment' is a lousy excuse for building the settlements that undermine your national self determination.
they should stop building settlements - are they stupid?
interesting news show
as the video cuts to scenes of houses being built in the settlements it is hard not to notice that the construction workers are all Palestinians.
these workers have built most of the settlements. why is this? if palestinian labourers stopped taking these jobs construction in the settlements would surely slow down massively
i have attended the demo in bil'in and agree with the sentiment. however every week people throw rocks at the soldiers/wall - my flatmate seth goes more often and says it always happens.
now it may well be fair to throw rocks and is certainly unlikely to hurt anyone, however is it still a 'non-violent' protest? it didn't feel non violent to me or the people i went with. the Palestinians i was talking to didn't seem that concerned that is was non violent and the anarchist against the wall who organise a lot of people to go were actually up for some violence against the wall.
now all of this might be fair enough - in fact it is quite within their rights to violently resist occupation but again i feel uyncomfortable to refer to it as non violent - which the lady from al jazeera did in her report.
any thoughts?