Comments on: Why Boycott Israel? Because It’s Good for You

By: B99

B99 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:04:52 +0000

Belkin – You are making an argument on why Israel should be snuffed out toute suite. Makes one root for such a development.

Jo n – Palestinian-Israelis are legally second class citizens in Israel. It is a Jim Crow political and civil culture.

Plymon – The Palestinians were living in Palestine when the hebrews arrived with their goats several thousand years after them, when the Jews left for greener pastures, and when the Zionists shipped in from Europe a century ago. The Jews have never been successful at statecraft (unless working for gentiles) and you can expect Israel to go under and its population to disperse as they have always done in the past.

By: B99

B99 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:58:07 +0000

Dave – the workers from Latin America are here – legal or not – because capital wants them here. They want cheap labor. If the US is to get serious about curtailing cheap labor then it has to raise minimum wages and living wages. That’s the only way it is worth it for Americans to take these jobs. But low-paid labor is the capitalist’s choice – made possible by the destruction of organized labor. Until the demise of unions – they set the standard for wages in the US. Now Chinese labor sets the standard. Immigrant labor will not disappear any time soon unless people insist on higher wages and are willing to strike for it.

By: B99

B99 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:54:10 +0000

Carl – Zion is the land of Canaan. Zionism in its pre-political formation was the collective desire of Jews to return to Canaan – at which point the Messiah would come to earth and remove Jews to heaven. Political Zionism emerged only recently and with a different goal – as a movement to colonize Palestine with Jews. It necessarily entails the destruction or removal of non-Jews. It is ultra-nationalist and racist. It has almost entirely replaced the wistful zionism of old with its plea for ‘next year in Jerusalem.’ In the old Zionism, Zion had become a state of mindfullness about god – not a state entity bent on expansion.

By: Carl Tice

Carl Tice — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:40:57 +0000

Again, the actions of the Zionist party are not direct reflections of the intent of the Jewish people. Nor is it true Zionism. Even then, true Zionism is just another concept of “patriotism,” in its truest form. Allegiance to one’s ethnicity. Not necessarily allegiance to the actions of one’s country. Seeing as how true Zionism believes that only the Messiah can bring peace, the actions of the Zionist party cannot be considered true Zionism. Then again, we all need someone to blame, and continue to proliferate hate in some manner. Especially when justifying hate in the name of social justice.

By: dave king

dave king — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:41:17 +0000

illegal immigration is weakening labor for people of all races in america .although the neoliberals may get political capital speaking against it their solutions are lame. go to any high rise under construction in down town atlanta and you’ll find police directing traffic in front of construction crews that are more the 50% illegal .the police won’t touch the employers or the illegals ,orders from the top .
just when labor markets were going to tighten up with the post baby boomer generation and the digestion of women joining the working force we get 30 million new mostly unskilled workers from south america .
if you are anti racist think about the effects this has unskilled black workers

By: Jason Belkin

Jason Belkin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:09:45 +0000

I could write book why people should why it dangers to do what you sujgesting. To make smiple Israel could take down world with them with WMD . Drop nulcear bombs to oil walls can not be good for evirment anyway and make World knock world secound great destory ecomicy Isreal deside to sink oil tankers. Israel techolgoy could also do untould damge to the world ecomony. To make smiple do not miss with Israelies.

By: JEAN VERCORS

JEAN VERCORS — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:16:04 +0000

Before you boycott Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saeky9I5T9c

boycott HILARIOUS
http://www.aish.com/movies/israelboycott.asp

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:47:17 +0000

Your equation of support for Israel with support for the “neo-colonial world system” emblematizes the shameful logical fallacy rotting the intellect of the contemporary left. The real reason the fringe-left hates Israel is because the prosperity and liberty it offers all of its citizens, Arabs included (relative to their brethren in other ME countries) stands as a rebuke to the pseudo-socialist authoritiarianism that people like Galloway salivate for.

I am glad people with your views have no power.

By: sheldon g

sheldon g — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:40:32 +0000

” the displaced Egyptians, and Jordanians ( which you call palestinians ) that have been living in the land of Israel like a bunch of thives living in a mans house while he is in prison will be distroyed. When you see the Temple being rebuilt know the time is near”

Can you believe this fucking guy????…I believe you are a zionazi, where is your respect 4 human life?, the holocaust was a tragedy…a dark period in the history of mankind…so was the slow but sure genocide inflicted on the indigenous peoples of america…>when will we get our own state at the expense of human lives

By: plymon

plymon — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:49:04 +0000

Your like a bunch of ship rats scurring about. You discuss over, and over everything you think is important. When all the time knowing nothing about the truth. The ship rats are never aware of the fact there on a sinking ship. And when the ship finally sinks, there baffled. What happened? I thought we had it all figured out….. Israel lives for reasons you know not of. Israel is on a collision course with distiny, and there is nothing you can do about it. Just keep talking, and typing. It want acomplish anything but it will keep the fools busy… And when that time comes, the displaced Egyptians, and Jordanians ( which you call palestinians ) that have been living in the land of Israel like a bunch of thives living in a mans house while he is in prison will be distroyed. When you see the Temple being rebuilt know the time is near.

By: Larkin the Irish

Larkin the Irish — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:09:30 +0000

you pussies didn’t print my outstanding solution for winning the hearts and minds in Iraq and afghanistan .So in retaliation I am going to airdrop hundreds of thousands of eight track players that will only play one song over and over ;The Captain and Teniles”Muskrat love” . I tried to help with my with
my idea of subduing the enemy with HDTV , but NOOOOOOOOOO!
So The Captain and Tenile it is. may god have mercy on your souls!@!!

By: Montag

Montag — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:09:59 +0000

The Nazis had a pretty striking poster which illustrated the gist of your essay. It showed an honest German Worker being attacked by a Polish soldier from the front, while a German Socialist was pinning his arms back defenselessly from behind. The poster didn’t need many words to get its point accross!

By: RandallJones

RandallJones — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:45:36 +0000

In my previous comment, when I put the links, I used HTML, but I don’t think I was supposed to becasue when you click on them you get an error.

To read the articles just copy and paste the web address into your browser address bar.

By: RandallJones

RandallJones — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:08:53 +0000

I am going to repeat my June 23, 2007 comment here because it looks like my prediction has come true. If the boycott is done and it spreads to other countries what will happen? Conveniently, a terrorist act wil take place (committed by agent provocateurs) and Israel will say “We told you so.” These terrorist acts (whether it was the killing of the Isrealis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, or the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, where hostages were held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, or the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro), benefit Israel more than it does the Palestinians If these British teachers want things to improve for the Palestinians, why don’t they set the example by having their government stop its participation in the occupation of Iraq? This also goes to the Americans on the radical left who want to talk about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, but do not want to discuss the United States’ war crimes around the world. See Kurt Nimmo’s article about the events in London and Glasgow http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=915 Pham Binh has a good article about this topic as well http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/glasglow-murderous-masterminds-or-hopeless-idiots/

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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:03:50 +0000

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By: sk

sk — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:57:17 +0000
Another btw: Lewis has a slightly more sophisticated take on the "existential enemy" than Huntington's billion person broad sweep. Mahmood Mamdani crystallizes the thesis of "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim" predicated on deterministic "culturetalk".

By: sk

sk — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:23:43 +0000

btw, something I forgot when posting the link to Bernard Lewis’ hate-mongering: ‘Clash of Civilizations’ was a phrase coined by Lewis and it first appeared in a Sep. 1990 Atlantic Monthly article entitled ‘The
Roots of Muslim Rage’. Huntington used the phrase couple of years later to name his tome.

This was around the time when policy wonks were casting about for some new paradigm to replace that of the Cold War which had ended rather abruptly and whose departure was beginning to expose the finery of the rulers at home (anyone remember the “peace dividend”?).

By: RandallJones

RandallJones — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:18:40 +0000

Terry Greenwood,

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed in the bombings by the U.S. and its allies during the two invasions. (Note: Israel was one of those countries that provided fake evidence about the WMDs, inorder to convince the U.S to invade Iraq, Iran may be next) That hasn’t stopped the terrorist attacks in Iraq. There are agent provocateurs helping to fuel the violence. See http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051015&articleId=1089

By: sk

sk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:01:26 +0000
Guess who's 'about to take over Europe'?

By: Terry Greenwood

Terry Greenwood — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:51:05 +0000

One more thing for Ekosmo and his like minded ilk. How about comparing what Israel does with how one of your heroes dealt with terrorist thugs. I’m speaking of the Hama massacre, which occurred in 1982 when Hafez al-Assad’s Syrian army bombed the town of Hama in order to quell a revolt by the Muslim Brotherhood. Amnesty International estimates between 10,000 and 25,000 were killed at Hama. Thomas Friedman has pointed out that never again have Muslim extremists threatened the Syrian government. This is the way to take care of business. Does this (yawn) bore you Ekosmo?