Who now doubts that strategic nonviolent action can transform the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Not Hamas parliamentarian Aziz Dweik, the Wall Street Journal reports: "When we use violence, we help Israel win international support," said Aziz Dweik, a leading Hamas lawmaker in the West Bank. "The Gaza flotilla has done more for Gaza than 10,000 rockets."
What if governments of "moderate" Muslim-majority countries like Turkey now demanded that the U.S. government stop subsidizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank that even the Israeli government says are illegal? What if these governments backed the boycott of corporations explicitly linked to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/hamas-lawmaker-gaza-floti_b_637791.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/7/114247/4863 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/638 -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
