Just watched Democracy Now's report on the pro-israel demo in NYC this past weekend, held in front of the israeli consulate there. Let me state for the record that amerisraelis are totally insane. The title of this post is a quote from one of them, and she was not alone in expressing that sentiment. Blow 'em off the map, the world will be a better place. It's so strange to find upper middle class white people being so spiteful. i mean, they have lovely homes, probably more than one, lots of space and amenities, kids in all the best schools, so can't they just be satisfied with that and let the Palestinians have their little plot of territory, too?
On principle, no society should be forcefully displaced. Pure pragmatism in the 21st century forces us to accept that one group of people can't keep pushing other people off their land because now, there's nowhere else to go. The planet is as contracted as it's ever been, relative to human occupation. Viva Palestina! Folks, there is no other viable option. What gives these people the right to be so fucking selfish? i have yet to meet one of them, excluding a single member of my own extended family, who would be able to endure physically as well as psychologically what the vast majority of palestinians have had to endure. These people (said in the same spirit as 'that one') have created a whole society of spoiled children. Palestinians are practical, tenacious and very well-disciplined, by comparison. i'd say roughly 80% of the palestinian men i have personally met have spent time in israeli prisons or detention centers, a significant majority subjected to heinous methods of torture, some when they were teenagers. It's been horrific, for a very long time. Seymour Hersh likes to quote his general friend as saying, "We can't be as rough as the americans are, because we know that eventually we're going to have to live with them." This is total bullshit, Hersh should know better than to so dismally misrepresent the truth. The israelis have treated the palestinians like animals, both officially and in what they would probably describe as a neighbourly way. US passport-holding jews who say things like "WE have intelligence" and so forth, in order to justify civilian slaughter, reflects anything *but* an accurate understanding of what life is like in places like Jabaliya. i want to think they really have no idea of the depth of suffering and inhumanity they are responsible for, but my optimism has been rapidly waning.
Definitely check out this video for an excellent window into the israeli proposanda machine The rationale employed goes as follows: we have a right to protect ourselves, our rights are unlimited, therefore the methods of protection are without bounds. Also notice that every reference to palestinian anything must include 'hamas'. Oooh, they are so clever, aren't they? But a superb effort on Alex Thomspon's part to not let the barbarity of it all off the hook. He probably still hasn't learned that one thing you'll never catch an israeli official saying is 'we're sorry.'
On principle, no society should be forcefully displaced. Pure pragmatism in the 21st century forces us to accept that one group of people can't keep pushing other people off their land because now, there's nowhere else to go. The planet is as contracted as it's ever been, relative to human occupation. Viva Palestina! Folks, there is no other viable option. What gives these people the right to be so fucking selfish? i have yet to meet one of them, excluding a single member of my own extended family, who would be able to endure physically as well as psychologically what the vast majority of palestinians have had to endure. These people (said in the same spirit as 'that one') have created a whole society of spoiled children. Palestinians are practical, tenacious and very well-disciplined, by comparison. i'd say roughly 80% of the palestinian men i have personally met have spent time in israeli prisons or detention centers, a significant majority subjected to heinous methods of torture, some when they were teenagers. It's been horrific, for a very long time. Seymour Hersh likes to quote his general friend as saying, "We can't be as rough as the americans are, because we know that eventually we're going to have to live with them." This is total bullshit, Hersh should know better than to so dismally misrepresent the truth. The israelis have treated the palestinians like animals, both officially and in what they would probably describe as a neighbourly way. US passport-holding jews who say things like "WE have intelligence" and so forth, in order to justify civilian slaughter, reflects anything *but* an accurate understanding of what life is like in places like Jabaliya. i want to think they really have no idea of the depth of suffering and inhumanity they are responsible for, but my optimism has been rapidly waning.
Definitely check out this video for an excellent window into the israeli proposanda machine The rationale employed goes as follows: we have a right to protect ourselves, our rights are unlimited, therefore the methods of protection are without bounds. Also notice that every reference to palestinian anything must include 'hamas'. Oooh, they are so clever, aren't they? But a superb effort on Alex Thomspon's part to not let the barbarity of it all off the hook. He probably still hasn't learned that one thing you'll never catch an israeli official saying is 'we're sorry.'
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