Canada doesn't have fences between countries.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Yes, but they also show that some of the "nonviolent" protest included > at least 2 mobs tearing down the fences between countries. > > Which is generally frowned upon by most any country. Canada, US, > Egypt.Switzerland. > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/israel_and_palestine_0?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fherecomesyournonviolentresistance > > > > "FOR many years now, we've heard American commentators bemoan the > violence > > of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned > the > > lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they'd have had their > > state long ago. Surely no Israeli government would have violently > suppressed > > a non-violent Palestinian movement of national liberation seeking only > the > > universally recognised right of self-determination. > > > > Palestinian commentators and organisers, including Fadi > > Elsalameen< > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fadi-elsalameen/finding-palestines-gandhi_b_617490.html > > > > and Moustafa Barghouthi< > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/opinion/17iht-edbarghouthi.html>, > > have spent the last couple of years pointing out that these complaints > > resolutely ignore the actual and growing Palestinian non-violent > resistance > > movement. For that matter, they elide the fact that the first *intifada*, > > which broke out in 1987, was initially as close to non-violent as could > be > > reasonably expected. For the most part, it consisted of general strikes > and > > protest marches. In addition, there was a fair amount of kids throwing > > rocks, as well as the continuing threat of low-level terrorism, mainly > from > > organisations based abroad; the Israelis conflated the autochthonous > protest > > movement with the terrorism and responded brutally, and the *intifada* > quickly > > lost its non-violent character. That's not that different from what has > > happened over the past couple of months in Libya; it shows that it's very > > hard to keep a non-violent movement non-violent when the government > you're > > demonstrating against subjects you to gunfire for a sustained period of > > time." > > > > Let's see if this continues and what Israel's, and the World's response > is > > going to be. There has not been a concerted effort to support protesters > in > > Syria, for example. Was this on News channels in the US btw? > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337963 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
