Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience(techcrunch.com) |
Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience(techcrunch.com) |
what's happening in israel are protests
not remotely comparable
Rest assured that the majority of the protestors are much aware of the moral and economic price of the settlements and would rather see them taken apart. Current estimates put the total investment in settlements in the West Bank and Gaza over the years at more than $50B. Trust that the general Israeli population would very much want to see those amounts of money invested in health, welfare, transportation and education within the '67 lines.
Stating that fact upfront would have marked the protests as "yet another leftist campaign".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_...
One has to be extremely ignorant to fail to comprehend that Madrid, Cairo, New York, Tripoli, Tel Aviv, Damascus, Athens and London are all part of the same story.
As an Israeli I refuse to control another people. I think it is immoral and wrong. And yes, the settlements are wrong, and they continue to corrupt us and our morals, day by day.
> As an Israeli I refuse to control another people.
No matter how you spin it, the existence of West Bank settlements does not imply controlling other people. They're just houses. You can have any number of political arrangements that allows the existence of the houses without controlling anyone. Which includes the one that exists now where the Palestinians completely control their own civilian lives. Those are the facts on the ground, and is certainly a far cry from "apartheid."
Apartheid - "... an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime". [1]