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In reply to the discussion: Amnesty takes action against official’s tweets [View all]R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)59. Those people ( and they know who they are )...
Well, who are they?
Do you believe that I am one?
I don't support Hamas, and never have.
I don't secretly "smile" (sick accusation there my fellow DUer) about rocket attacks and bus bombers against Israel.
I don't ignore Sudan (why deflect away from I/P?) or tweet 12 hours per day about a dozen deaths in Gaza (nice way for you to marginalize them though).
And I've never accused Israel of being the sole guilty party.
Yet you defend Israel now with the rant about Those people ( and they know who they are )...
We expect Israel, a Democracy and ally of the USA that takes its $$, to fucking act like one and stop pretending that it doesn't have and hasn't created a fucking underclass. We expect them to respect international law, not their own fucking colonial bullshit, and remove their fucking citizens off of Palestinian lands. We expect them to do this without them rolling their eyes and pretending that the land is theirs and the Palestinians are just Arab interlopers that were holding it for them, and now they can bugger off.
To be blunt, it is hard to see them as victims when they are the ones in a position of power while victimizing others.
So spare us the BS.
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as I told another poster being antiIsrael (really antioccupation) is as related to antisemitism
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#4
Amnesty has vigilantly reported human rights abuses in every Arab and Muslim country.
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#57
NOBODY here "secretly smiles about rockets attacks or bus bombers against Israel"
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#56
These organizations seem to show that it is more prevalent than we all previously thought,
King_David
Nov 2012
#7
I have begun to believe, IMvHO, that any information with regards to Israel
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2012
#52
hmmm it seems you are claiming that while it is antisemtic to be antiIsrael's occupation
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#20
okay I'll agree that antisemitism is as much a part of the ProPalestinian movement
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#26
I am sure you would feel terrible if you donated to AI or HRW and some others I've seen listed too n
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#19
so in your opinion that the organiztion took action against her is meaningless
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#24
These groups are absolutely obsessed with Israel and apparrently the Jews too
King_David
Nov 2012
#45
I thought is important that AI took action against one of its members for their actions
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#32
why ever would you say that ? an employee of AI made an antisemtic tweet and AI is taking action
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#38
well I guess that;s your opinion but Amnesty and I found that tweet offensive because
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#44
it was a quote of IDF findings not B'tselems which is why only a fraction of a paragraph is snipped
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#63
Keep deflecting. B'tselem stated as fact Hamas commits war crimes via human shielding.
shira
Nov 2012
#70
that is not in the article anyone who's ever read a Google translation from Arabic to English
azurnoir
Nov 2012
#71