[quote]Shoebolt wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
Shoebolt wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
Who the fuck cares? The world is a nasty place. This is minor league bullshit.
The question you should ask yourself is why does your college feel the need to promote anyone that has a message that makes Israel look bad?
Do they also give voice to all the victims of the terrorists that have been attacking Israel?
Do you realize that you are being manipulated?
Do you realise how biased and bigoted you are? Oh and absolutely imcompassionate? Yes they do give voice to the victims of the terrorists that have been attacking Israel. But you have to understand why all this happens. Address the deep roots of the problem and fix those. Fixing the surface of the issue will do nothing, and only compound things further.
But imagine this. Your daughter leaves your house to walk to school. Along the way, a bunch of kids throw rocks at her while the cops sit there and hug them and their parents do nothing about them. You go to fetch her to keep her safe, but you can’t get to the school because of a blockade, where they strip search you for 7 hours. You’re daughter is then shot in the head while at school and riddled with bullets. Then when you are not allowed to return, and forced back home, your house has been demolished by a bulldozer. You have nothing. Now what do you feel like doing? Going over to the people who did this and talk to them about it? Or grabbing a gun and shooting them. You should understand better. I don’t have a family. Yet I still feel the pain of people on both sides of this story.
We address the causes of the problems, and fix the situation up for both sides.
Someday you will look back and see how you are being manipulated. It is hard to see while you are stuck in the college environment.
Sure these guys are assholes but the fact that someone flew halfway around the world to tell you this tale of low level harassment should make you wonder why.
Did they go on to tell the tale as to why these guys were mad at the aid workers? Did they talk about how these assholes sisters were blown up by suicide bombers?
Did they tell about how donations for humanitarian aid ends up in the hands of Hamas and other terrorists?
Was her story even true?
The people that came to your school came to manipulate you.
Oh forgive me then, I didn’t know you thought it was perfectly fine to counter terrorism with terrorism.
And by the way, for your ethnocentric mind, here’s some meal, the speaker wasn’t even Arab. This guy is mexican, dropped out of school to travel to India to volunteer in an orphanage without an organization to fall back on, then spent a whole half year teaching English to poor kids in India. Then he heard about the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida. He decided his abilities would be best used there. He acted as human shields for many civilians. Oh wait, despite all this, he raised thousands of dollars to travel all around North America and Europe to manipulate me into just listening to what he had to say.
Quite some bright logic there Zap.
As for these settlers? You think they have justification to be mad?? Why are they on Palestinian land anyway. Nevermind Zap, you won’t understand anyway, you think it’s better to counter the terrorists by killing their children.
[/quote]
Perhaps they are on Palestinian land because they act as a buffer against all the attacks against Israel?
Perhaps if Israel was not constantly attacked they would not have expanded their territory and created these buffer zones.
Of course now that Israel has been giving these territories back the terrorism is stopped, after all Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize for this.
I think it disgusting that our childrens minds are being poisoned in these institutions of higher learning.
Some guy comes in and gives you a load of propaganda and you cannot see through it because as a college student you are at a very vulnerable age.
It is apparent you bought it hook line and sinker because the focus of your initial post was on how bad the Israelis are because someone spit on someone else.
I assume you are normal college age. If so please understand that I have been aware of and reading about this conflict since before you were born. Your claims that I am biased and bigoted are foolish.
I understand that Israel takes some tough action. Some of it is justifiable, some of it is just because people are assholes. Sometimes they are just plain wrong.
What you don’t understand is that the guy that came to your school to talk to you was there to manipulate you and it appears to be working. I would bet he has strong ties to one of many groups that wants to destroy Israel.
Frankly the Palestinians do not need the help of a Mexican aid worker. They can do things for themselves. His traveling the country is not to collect food to feed the poor in Palestine. He is spreading their political message.