No. Please stop using the blatantly misguided comparison between Israel/Palestine and David and Goliath.
Goliath, to start with, was recorded to be a legitimately powerful warrior who openly used his strength and monstrous physique to win battles/wars. His strength, fighting prowess, and superhuman body was acknowledged by both allies and enemies.
Israel is far from being legitimately powerful in any way. The illusion of power comes from the open line of support it has with the US/ US military…itself a paper tiger who only fights weak or weakened foes, and struggles to pull out wins even then. (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan).
Secondly, Goliath challenged his foes openly and directly, and fought them in a straightforward manner like a true warrior. Israel has historically always avoided direct battles rather choosing to play dirty games like assassinations, threatening civilians, bribing their foes, and manipulating political actors into serving their (short term) interests.
Palestine is both Goliath and David. Its has in its struggle both people of immense individual strength and might, and those who rely on their courage and mental prowess. Israel has no historical analogues because history rarely record cowards and petty criminals as anything other than nameless pests they are.
Hi Stephen, a more appropriate term would be SWANA which stands for South West Asia and North Afrika.
Mooser,
Do you identify as white?
Even the Arabs despised Islam before embracing it. Islam means submitting to the true laws of God. It’s natural I suppose for people who are lost in their own narcissism to be fearful, or angry even, to be told to get over themselves and embrace reality.
One thing that shouldn’t be ignored is how people maintain the ties to their new faith after the initial embrace. Regardless if they are Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Iranians, Indonesian, Indians, Nigerians, Bosnian, Japanese or American, Muslims generally take great pride in their religion.
The same cannot be said of Christians, where many are reluctant to embrace it as core aspect of their identity. I suppose the same can be said of the Jews as well. They view their faith often as a baggage tied to them by greater society, hence the high number of atheists and non-deists among Judeo-Christian populations.
Why wouldn’t she support Palestine? Why would any smart, educated and capable woman willingly go and support a regime, an ideology, based on the patriarchal establishment such as Israel, moreso after all the shit Hillary went through in America because of the same patriarchal mindset of the Republicans?
On the other hand we have Palestine, where women are respected for who they are and what they are capable of, regardless of faith. You don’t see strong, fiercely feminist women mirroring Hillary coming out of the Zionist camp. Not one.
In Palestine, feminism is baked into the very fabric of the culture, nurturing strong women who embodies all the qualities Hillary is famous for. Full of compassion, love, fierceness, intelligence, pride and sense of justice. In Palestine, it is the womenfolk who are sustaining the struggle for their liberation, through their immense strength and sacrifice. To accuse Hillary of forsaking these women to appease the vile Zionists who are full of toxic masculinity and patriarchal attitudes, shows extremely lack of character assessment skills.
Anyways, its all pointless now. Trump has won the election and we just have to fight this battle on top of the thousands of others, in the ultimate war for justice and liberty.
Promising to invite Netanyahu to the White House is standard practice for a politician. Both Trump and Clinton promised similar sounding things with regards to Israel during campaigning, in order to placate the strong Zionists influences within the political arena and media.
You judge a person by his action. This is especially true when it comes to politicians. Regardless of what Hillary may have said in public, in private she has always been pro-Palestine and pro-justice.
This article failed to back up its outrageous headline claiming “obsession” on part of the Clinton campaign in fighting BDS. Apart from some stray emails on the subject, to my knowledge there were never any form of campaign promises or written statement released by Clinton attacking BDS, throughout the campaigning.
Trump repeatedly yammering about building a wall during the campaign trail was an obsession.
The younger voters are also anti-America as they correctly see that it is no different from Israel in being a violently-enforced, militarily backed, settler-colonial entity whose sole purpose is to protect white supremacy.
This is why we need to look outside the nation-state framework when engaging in politics of change.
Mooser
t’s the difference between pointing out the African American crime in the US and making fun of tribespeople in Africa.
Both are racist, only one is more overt than the other. Educate yourself.
Good people living in an evil society can do evil things without even realizing it.