Which sounds an awful lot like an IMF/World Bank counter-demonstration. (which protesters are actually less generally sympathetic, since attacking McDonalds and Walmart, and breaking windows of random stories is not in line with many (American) bystanders feelings, but railing against police, and especially Israeli police (who have had their own issues with sympathetic views in recent memory))
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > True, but it has to really be non-violent. Despite what is usually reported, > non-violent protests in the Middle East are rarely non-violent, especially > in a way that Gandhi or MLK would approve of. The media allows just about > anything short of actual shooting at people to be considered non-violent. > > There are basically three types of Palestinians: > 1. Those who just want violence which usually includes the destruction of > Israel and/or Jews in general (Hamas fits this exactly) > 2. Those who are manipulated to violence by people in group 1 and by others > (such as media people looking for action shots). Many protesters fit into > this group. > 3. Those who actually want peace and want to just get along. > > If those in group 3 can be heard over those in groups 1 and 2 then we can > have peace. If those in group 1 can be marginalized or removed then their > effect on group 2 will move many from that group into group 3 where they > belong. Unfortunately, group 1 contains most of the Palestinian leadership > who are more than happy to talk peace in English and war in Arabic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:337971 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
