Israelis Are Behaving Like Spoiled Rich Brats

[Purveyor]

By Udi Aloni

The terrifying specter of non-violent resistance to the occupation and the apartheid regime is hovering over the State of Israel, and all the state's dignitaries have been recruited to battle it.

This non-violent resistance operates both in areas under Israel's reign of control, in the form of a popular struggle on both sides of the green line, and across the globe, through the Israeli and international affirmative response to the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions on Israel, until it ends the occupation and grants full equality to people from both nations living under its rule.

As an act of solidarity with the subjugated Palestinian people, a group of Jewish Israelis has decided to join those Palestinians who have chosen the non-violent struggle for civic and national justice.

This act has given politically conscientious Jewish Israelis a golden opportunity to join a campaign against their own government without forsaking their own people. Indeed, this act leads the way towards a broader joint struggle with the oppressed people, through a rebuilding of our fundamental human values, enabling us to do away with the friend/foe dichotomy, which lies at the root of Israeli racism and anxiety.

One should hope that this non-violent resistance, led by a popular Palestinian leadership, will evolve into a binational Palestinian-Jewish front for an equitable and egalitarian political solution.

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HAARETZ: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157854.html

[grassfed]

1. Nonviolence is met with violence

This is the news, a little late, from the popular resistance movement to the occupation in Palestine:

Friday’s demonstration in An Nabi Saleh saw an increase in violence and collective punishment from the Israeli military, as twenty-five demonstrators were injured, windows of cars and homes were intentionally shattered, and three were arrested.

ISM volunteer Ellen Stark was shot at point blank range (4 meters) with a rubber bullet (actually a "rubber coated" metal bullet) as she stood with medics, Popular Committee members and other internationals. ISM co-founder Huwaida Arraf was arrested while negotiating with the IOF to allow Ellen through the military line to get to the hospital. According to Ellen, “we were standing on Palestinian land, in support of the village who’s land has been confiscated but we weren’t even demonstrating yet. We were standing with medics who were also shot with tear gas.”

Ellen’s had to undergo surgery to remove the bullet, which was lodged between her ulna and radius of her right arm. Her wrist is broken as a result of the bullet impact. As of 12:00 pm Saturday, Palestine time, Huwaida has yet to be located in the Israeli prison system.

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[Dick Dastardly]

7. The ISM says so ,,,,,,,

so it must be true. :rofl:

The protest in Nabi Saleh and elsewhere in the WB were not non violent peaceful protest. Google is your friend.


Putting any stock in an article by the ISM or what they say is bad enough, but those who accept unquestioningly what they say as fact show either they don't care about facts/truth at least as it pertains to the IP conflict or are ignorant useful idiots. Either way their credibility and judgment are in serious question.



Maybe to some people throwing rocks, burning tires and various other acts of mayhem are considered part of non violent peaceful protest, but not to myself and most sane people.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. As always, Palestinians are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[Ken Burch]

3. What's amazing is how the right-wing crazies in the Haaretz talkbacks

Are lashing out in rage at Aloni for supporting NONVIOLENT resistance. What they're showing is that they are terrified of having to admit that Palestinians are not bloodthirsty monsters.

And those same crazies will defend any and all forms of violent repression the Israeli government uses against the "white Intifada", just as the hardline Ulster Unionists all cheered when the British Army used deadly force against the nonviolent Catholic marchers on Bloody Sunday in 1972.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. I disagree - consider how you'd view non-violent resistance to Civil Rights.

The fact that your support for a bad cause is non-violent doesn't change the fact that you're supporting a bad cause.

Now, I think that the Palestinians have a good cause and their opponents don't. But I don't think it's sensible to say "they're protesting non-violently, so you can't condemn them for doing so" as an argument in itself without reference to the surrounding issue.

[Ken Burch]

5. It's not so much "don't condemn" it's "don't still defend the IDF for arresting, beating or shooting

them"

Slight difference.

[Ken Burch]

6. The Palestinian cause can't be compared to "resistance to Civil RIghts"

What we're saying is, if the "tactics" of the oppressed are used by their oppressors to justify KEEPING them oppressed(witness the endless sanctimonious comments about what the Israeli government calls "terrorism", as if the invocation of that word should somehow automatically stop the discussion and trump everything else)then when the Palestinian people change their tactics(in a cause almost everyone in the world recognizes as just)they should have a right to expect different treatment from the IDF and the Israeli government.