تعليقات علي: Montreal: university and college professors and employees call for Israel boycott

By: Honest Broker

Honest Broker — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:25:49 +0000

One can either take sides (and boycott Israel or buycott Israel) or one can promote a peaceful resolution. One cannot do both.

Supporting one side over the other simply encourages the supported side to entrench themselves and fight for their cause, pushing the two sides further apart.

This applies to all conflicts where neither side will concede and the only way to stop attacks on each other is a peace treaty.

In this conflict it’s even worse. Support of the Palestinians is support for their denial of Israel’s right to exist and entrenches Israel’s belief that they are fighting for their very survival and cannot heed criticism against them.

Supporting the settlements increases Israel’s resolve to continue with them.

And the whole conflict is perpetuated to their mutual detriment.

By: CLAVIER ARABE

CLAVIER ARABE — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:48:30 +0000

J’appr

By: David

David — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:48:39 +0000

Haha wow, some people who have nothing to do with the conflict, who rely on the unreliable media to provide them with information have an opinion!

By: Jorn

Jorn — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:10:09 +0000

To understand the fascist zionists disregard for human life read the book by the late Professor Israel Shahak born in Warsaw in 1933 and spent his childhood in the concentration camp at Belsen: The Weight of Three Thousand Years:
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jewhis1.htm
An exerpt:
” All this has a direct and practical relevance to the realities of the State of Israel. Although the state’s criminal laws make no distinction between Jew and Gentile, such distinction is certainly made by Orthodox rabbis, who in guiding their flock follow the Halakhah. Of special importance is the advice they give to religious soldiers.

Since even the minimal interdiction against murdering a Gentile outright applies only to ‘Gentiles with whom we [the Jews] are not at war’, various rabbinical commentators in the past drew the logical conclusion that in wartime all Gentiles belonging to a hostile population may, or even should be killed.6 Since 1973 this doctrine is being publicly propagated for the guidance of religious Israeli soldiers. The first such official exhortation was included in a booklet published by the Central Region Command of the Israeli Army, whose area includes the West Bank. In this booklet the Command’s Chief Chaplain writes:

When our forces come across civilians during a war or in hot pursuit or in a raid, so long as there is no certainty that those civilians are incapable of harming our forces, then according to the Halakhah they may and even should be killed … Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an impression of being civilized … In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakhah to kill even good civilians, that is, civilians who are ostensibly good.7″

Complete book available at: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jewhis1.htm

By: chingachguk

chingachguk — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:57:43 +0000

i don’t know about israel , it is too far from here …. but i’m calling to all the thinking people to support our fight for liberation of canada from european occupation!!!!! for 400 hundreds of years people from another continent have mass murdered us indigenious people of america. europeans have no right whatsoever to occupy this land that for thousands years belonged to our forefathers, who lived here in harmony with nature. french and british came here with weapons of mass destruction and commited genocide of our race, there were millions of people here – where they are now? the few remaining survivors are still kept in ghettoes and the occupants pride themselves for humanity because they kindly reserved 5% to us – rightful owners of all this land. europeans rape our land with their industrialization and are leading the whole planet to the ecological catastrophy. GO BACK TO EUROPE !!! this is our land and we will not stop untill it is clear of the last occupant. there are no “innocent civilians” in this fight , anyone who doesn’t leave volunterily is an enemy and a legitimate target for our holy war for liberation. i hope that countries like russia and other countries that are not indifferent to the suffering of others like iran and syria will help us. our great gods are with us and we will win for our couse is right. REVENGE AND FREEDOM!

By: Henry Wolkowicz

Henry Wolkowicz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:13:52 +0000

An interesting exercise is to compare the reaction of the mass media and many people on this board to what happened in Israel and to what happened in Sri Lanka. During the current trouble in Gaza, there was ongoing problems in Sri Lanka, with many civilians being killed. I do not have the exact numbers, but the amounts were similar. However, all the people angry at Israel that I spoke to were not even aware of problems in Sri Lanka. All you people on this board who care so much about civilian deaths – how many of you cared to start a boycott of Sri Lanka? How many boycotts were started? How many articles were written? I challenge you to ask yourselves why you are willing to *HATE* Israel so much and not care at all about Sri Lanka. Also, at the same time, Turkey attacked PKK locations; civilians were killed.
Sid Ryan never mentioned Sri Lanka or Turkey or all the other hotspots. We never saw articles in most of the papers till after Gaza quieted down. I am sure most of the angry people on this board know very little of these details.

The state of Israel is held to a standard different than all other countries in the world.
Israel will not commit suicide! The main role of the government (of any country) is to protect its citizens. It Israel is attacked it will protect itself. What amazing gall you have to expect anything different. What amazing chuzpa you have to think that your boycott will force Israel to abandon its own citizens.
I don’t believe you care at all about the Palestinians. You do have enough hate to want to destroy Israel.

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:01:36 +0000

I suggest to people to read these articles from Robert Fisk – journalist in The Independant (British Newspaper)

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-when-did-we-stop-caring-about-civilian-deaths-during-wartime-1521708.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-plots-sense-and-nonsense-the-view-from-the-post-bag-1514542.html

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:50:19 +0000

Here is an interesting video from CBS:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4752349n

You should thank CBS for their impartiality at this number : 2129752006

Another one from Radio Canada:

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/telejournal/2008-2009/Reportage.asp?idDoc=73104

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:28:33 +0000

Un bon site à lire

http://www.ujfp.org/

By: Pierre A Roy

Pierre A Roy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:07:02 +0000

La tele francaise FR3 a envoye sur le terrain durant les combats 3 journaliste et un cameraman. Ils ont pr.sentés ce reportage ce soir a Envoyé Spécial Ils ont receuillis les temoignages de jeunes enfants blesses par des tirs israéliens qui racontaient que les membres du Hamas avaient investi leur maison pour tirer des rockets. Ils ont aussi filmés des dizaines combattants du Hamas tentant de se faire passer pour des civiles dans des hopitaux de Gaza. Quel cynisme de produire des victimes civiles parmi les siens pour influencer lòpinion publique! Cessez de nous faire croire sur ce site que tout es noir ou tout blanc.