| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:What do the Palestinians and their supporters actually want ? | |
| Posted by: | John Hawkes | |
| Date/Time: | 19/05/24 11:37:00 |
| Mr Carter 'Actually, I think silence is the most appropriate response, rather than provoking another round from the whatever-Israel-does-is-right keyboard warriors here'. Well said. You 'whatever-Palestinians-do-is-right and whatever-Israel-does-is-wrong keyboard warriors here' should be given as much opportunity as possible to also put forward your case. Let's face it you have the leader of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling for Israel to be brought before the ICJ for genocide. So the case must be strong. A leader who had stolen $580,000 he kept under his sofa. And that's the South Africa where previous President Zuma when deputy president of South Africa from 1999 to 2005 under President Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela's successor was dismissed in 2005 after Zuma's financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of making corrupt payments to Zuma in connection with the Arms Deal. Zuma was charged with corruption and was also acquitted on rape charges in the highly publicised 2006 trial. He managed to retain the support of a left-wing coalition inside the ANC. Yes, here's a country led by people well qualified to give moral guidance to Israel. Have others not noticed how the wheel of public sympathy can so quickly turn ? Remember the October 2023 pogrom by Palestinians from Gaza against Israeli women and children (many still held hostage) ? Response ? Initial condemnation....then forgotten. "Small earthquake in Chile; not many dead" - Claud Cockburn. Israel naturally decides to retaliate seeing Hamas as an existential threat to its existence. But the brave Arab boys have infiltrated into the civilian population. Thus however much care the IDF take to minimise civilian casualties (and we only have Hamas' not independent verification of the numbers involved) they will of course occur under the physical circumstances of the fighting. And Hamas control what is revealed to the world's media, many of whom are licking their lips to publish photos of dead children and damaged hospitals. Media comment doubtless lapped up by many marching yesterday or protesting on the lawns of our major universities (before they leave for a 4 month vacation). Apart from the obvious antisemitic undertones of much pro-Palestine comment and activity, what sticks in my craw is the sheer unbalanced hypocrisy of so much of it. So yes Mr Carter, you bang your keyboard and I'll bang mine ! Oh and how did the pro-Palestine march go yesterday ? |