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There's a good conversation going on here and at the end of the day, what can be said about IAW is that it's bringing attention to this very serious world issue.  And I think that's what the point is. No one that I've talked to in support of IAW is preaching hate or anger.  They are human beings, identifying with other human beings who are living in terrible conditions and have been for over 40 years, trying to overcome an intense media campaign to deny the truth. 

For me, I very much agree with Scott123.  Get over the word choice. The debate of whether or not we can call it this, call it that is a distraction from what is really going on here. This isn't about hating Jews or debating how democratic Israel is.  This is about the Palestinian people.  This is about their homes being torn down.  It's about human rights violations.  It's about children dieing because they can't make it through check points on their way to the hospital.  It's about locking people in their homes for days, weeks and even months at a time under "curfew". It's about a wall, twice the height of the Berlin wall, being built taking up more land and destroying more homes. 

There are too many people afraid to speak up for this issue and I hear more and more often stuff like.. " oh well it's been going on so long that who can say who started what" or " well, i don't really understand it but it's not for us to say who's right", etc etc  and when people do try to stand up and say, "NO, this isn't right!", they get labled as supporting a Hate movement?

This is about human beings abusing other human beings. Whatever we call it, we know what's right and what's wrong. And I'll support any movement that spreads awareness to people about what is really going on here.


Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy By: Judes (27 replies) March 2, 2010 - 1:16pm