bcg retired software engineer This user account status is Approved Comments Comments Posts Posts @Neil Schipper: "Criticizing Israeli behavior unreferenced to the norms of the region is evidence of immaturity or bad faith. Israel can and should take pride in where its managed to hold its moral bar." Anything goes because Syria is always worse? This is the moral bar Americans should accept? On Ilhan Omar says AIPAC influences Congress using money and Israel supporters erupt in fury @Neil Schipper: Personally I'm fine with a majority Jewish state, almost all of the JVP people I've talked to are fine with a majority Jewish state, we just don't want it to permanently rule over another people, we don't want it to destroy the possibility of two states with its endlessly expanding settlements and checkpoints and home demolitions and administrative detentions. Why is this so difficult to understand? On Ilhan Omar says AIPAC influences Congress using money and Israel supporters erupt in fury @Jackdaw: I've been to JVP meetings that were packed with Jews - of all ages - who support BDS, and in all the conversations I've had with people I can't discern the slightest hint of 'anti-semitism' or self-hating Jewishness - it's all ridiculous. Try going to some of these meetings and try actually talking to people. On Democratic Party leadership, in bed with AIPAC, condemns Ilhan Omar for ‘anti-Semitic… accusations’ News flash: tonight, Monday, on the PBS Newshour, there was a segment in Politics Monday where BDS, the whole anti-semitism controversy, and the rift in the Jewish community are mentioned prominently. Check it out. On Democratic Party leadership, in bed with AIPAC, condemns Ilhan Omar for ‘anti-Semitic… accusations’ "All about the Benjamins": https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=all%20about%20the%20benjamins On ‘It was definitely about the Benjamins’ — former campaign staffer details AIPAC’s far-reaching financial power "It also seems to us perfectly acceptable to argue that a self-described Jewish state that fails to separate church and state and that holds that Jews have an exclusive right to self-determination when 20 percent of the population is not Jewish is “illegitimate.” " Every single demographic breakdown of the Israeli population I've seen states that 25% of the population is not Jewish. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Ethnic_and_religious_groups Scroll down to religious makeup, 2017: Jews comprise 74.50% of the population. On Thank you Bret Stephens, for making anti-Zionism a subject for every dinner table, and BDS a household word @Mondonut: Go to Breaking the Silence, then go to their video testimonials page ( https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/videos ), then type 'Hebron' into the search engine and start watching a few. There are a lot of people who have observed what goes on in Hebron - try talking to one, I have. As for your comment that international observers have no 'right' to be in Hebron, the issue of what 'rights' human rights groups have is the dumbest type of analysis there is. Sure, human rights groups have no 'rights' to be anywhere, technically speaking, but that's not the issue, is it? On In wake of human rights observers expulsion, other rights groups in Hebron fear escalation in violence @Jackdaw: I'll let the historians argue about why Jimmy Carter lost. But he was absolutely right about one thing - " From the beginning of his presidency in 1977, Jimmy Carter determined that the settlements were an obstacle to peace because they stood in the way of a Palestinian homeland, which he wished to help establish in the West Bank and East Jerusalem." Tell us how this ends, Jackdaw. On Jimmy Carter believed he lost a second term because he opposed settlements, alienating Jews — Eizenstat @Jackdaw: I'd be all for two states, but it is no longer possible - look at this map put out by ICAHD, as well as the text below: https://icahd.org/get-the-facts/matrix-control/ How will this end, Jackdaw? Realistically, not in your fictional world in which Israel is willing and eager to negotiate. On Palestine and the Climate Crisis I think it's relevant to mention that Jeff Halper, one of the founders of ICAHD, is right now touring the U.S. and giving talks on the "One Democratic State" campaign - here's a Mondoweiss article from last year by Halper - https://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/democratic-multicultural-palestine/ As the Leonard Cohen song goes, “everybody knows” the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel – has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. On As Israel steps up ‘Judaization’ policy, IfNotNow takes a step toward anti-Zionism load more comments
