tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post8669811387775695874..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Canada-Israel Solidarity RallyAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-71268457046405512322014-08-03T12:40:20.453-07:002014-08-03T12:40:20.453-07:00Mogs,
It's means and ends, and the fine-grain...Mogs,<br /><br />It's means and ends, and the fine-grained details when it comes to Palestinian resistance in Gaza through Hamas.<br /><br />Resistance movements take all forms both in strategy, tactics, and governing ideologies. In challenging Israeli oppression, Hamas uses rockets and tunnels and is governed by an Islamist ideology. These facts are not in dispute. It tries to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians much the same as the IRA in Northern Ireland which killed British soldiers and civilians in respons British military occupation and Protestant socioeconomic domination. Hamas is not absolved just because Israel kills Palestinians at rates orders of magnitude greater than Hamas is capable. Hamas KNOWS that Israel will respond in force to its rockets and attacks, and it knows that Israeli incursions generate a response that feeds the cycle or system of revenge, yet it still does it. This can only mean that it benefits from the violence because dead Palestinians give it free fresh recruits and reinforce the claims behind its own propaganda, not to mention that of the rightwing Israelis. The claim in the SW piece that Israel wishes to destroy the "spirit of resistance represented by Hamas" ignores the acutely violent nature of the organisation. It as much a terror group as the current Israeli government because it thrives on violence and death. Together, they form a ghoulish self-perpetuating system of death.<br /><br />The history of anti-colonial resistance movements is rare on instances of peaceful emancipation acheived through violence. The IRA eventually abandoned violence for a political solution. India achieved independence through Ghandi's satyagraha strategy. In Canada, we were spared the bloody US Indian Wars, opting instead for more duplicitous or civil forms of violence, now resolved through courts and not arms.<br /><br />In places where anti-colonial resistance used violence, the results tended/s be violent even after the coloniser has left. Many African states have and continue to have sorry post-colonial histories.<br /><br />Try this:<br />http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/1.606888Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-65537577039803970042014-08-03T12:35:53.598-07:002014-08-03T12:35:53.598-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-91318570944964912242014-08-03T07:50:11.675-07:002014-08-03T07:50:11.675-07:00Resistance is justified when Gaza is occupied
Isra...Resistance is justified when Gaza is occupied<br />Israel's propaganda offensive puts the blame for death and destruction in Gaza on Hamas. Eric Ruder examines the various claims--and sets the record straight.<br /><br />July 29, 2014<br />Gazans march in a funeral procession for a victim of Israel's war<br />Gazans march in a funeral procession for a victim of Israel's war<br />AS THE world reels in horror at mounting Palestinian deaths in <br />Boris:<br /><br />Gaza, the Israeli propaganda machine and its willing accomplices in the U.S. mainstream media have issued their customary reply: Blame Hamas.<br /><br />Speaking with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed all responsibility for Palestinian deaths on Hamas:<br /><br />http://socialistworker.org/2014/07/29/why-resistance-is-justified<br /><br />Go figure.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868396408359306954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-62182759013888846502014-08-03T07:29:00.846-07:002014-08-03T07:29:00.846-07:00Anon 2/8/14 9:38 am we are f***ed.Anon 2/8/14 9:38 am we are f***ed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868396408359306954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-66386758819243181522014-08-02T09:38:11.237-07:002014-08-02T09:38:11.237-07:00Same shit, different decade. Until Canadians get o...Same shit, different decade. Until Canadians get off their fat asses and vote in a progressive government these crimes against humanity will go on for ever. Liberals .... Harper/Cons are like sisters, turn them upside down and they look the same. Its taken Harper less than 10 years to destroy what took Canada 100 + years to accomplish on the world stage as being a caring, generous,compassionate country that probably and most importantly was the conscious of the world in matters as the one we are experiencing in the middle east.<br /><br /><br />Shame an all of the tunnel visioned short sighted low information morons that voted these a..holes to represent Canada. We are all tarred with their shallow sleaze dripping<br />brush. <br /><br />CGHZDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-7176390801653740522014-08-01T16:18:24.857-07:002014-08-01T16:18:24.857-07:00Holly Stick again
Meanwhile Antonia Zerbisia twee...Holly Stick again<br /><br />Meanwhile Antonia Zerbisia tweeted some interesting links:<br /><br />Today's NDP statement which I think is feeble but inching in a good direction:<br /><br />http://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-statement-situation-middle-east<br /><br />And today's statement by the NDP Youth which is well done and not feeble:<br /><br />http://rabble.ca/news/2014/08/ndp-youth-speak-out-on-gaza-its-time-to-call-spade-spade<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-46409982711937525262014-08-01T16:07:22.365-07:002014-08-01T16:07:22.365-07:00Holly Stick talkin':
Of the 6 MPs who were ju...Holly Stick talkin':<br /><br />Of the 6 MPs who were just over there, Liberals Carolyn Bennett and John McCallum met with some Palestinian people or groups in Ramallah, West Bank; a few tweets about it, eg:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/JohnMcCallumMP/status/494912608688824321<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Carolyn_Bennett/status/495165791344787458Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-50869815499976661292014-07-31T20:43:08.966-07:002014-07-31T20:43:08.966-07:00BY and Anon : Yes, UNRWA is the only relief agency...BY and Anon : Yes, UNRWA is the only relief agency working under fire in Gaza and yes, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/06/18/canada_must_renew_support_for_palestinian_refugees.html" rel="nofollow">we've cut our funding to it to zero in the last two years</a><br />.<br />I didn't know people didn't know.<br />I've just now added a note and links about it near the top of the main post.<br /><br />Here's a bit more history.<br /><br />Once Canada provided 10% of UNRWA's total budget.<br />In 2009 Canadians were told that our general funding to UNRWA including medical help etc. would now be restricted to just funding for food, with the rest being redirected to the Palestinian Authority. <br />Various evangelical groups and Jewish groups here and <a href="http://creekside1.blogspot.ca/2010/02/canadian-policy-on-israel-its-small.html" rel="nofollow">in Israel</a> had been lobbying for this for years, arguing that - given the tiny area from which to hire employees - UNRWA might have been or else definitely was infiltrated by Hamas. <br />I also would imagine they didn't much care for UNRWA's report alerting the world to Israel's use of phosphorus shells in Gaza - remember that?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/cida-reveals-that-even-israel-opposes-canada-s-unrwa-cuts/25543" rel="nofollow">Israel and the US both asked Canada to reinstate funding in 2010.</a> No go.<br /><br />Last year <a href="http://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/all_governments_donors_ec_overall.pdf" rel="nofollow">Canada was absent from UNRWA's list of 60 donor countries altogether</a>.<br /><br />In January this year <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Former-Canadian-MP-calls-to-dismantle-UNRWA-338213" rel="nofollow">Lib MP Irwin Cotler called for UNRWA to be disbanded entirely</a>.<br />Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-2029864059229123612014-07-31T19:46:48.580-07:002014-07-31T19:46:48.580-07:00"Harper stopped general funding of UNWRA in 2..."Harper stopped general funding of UNWRA in 2009? wtf?"<br /><br />I was just as shocked as you Anonymous to hear this. WTF indeed. This is not the country I recognize. <br /><br />There is not one official party that has the courage to call what Bibi's government is doing a war crime. Good old punching boy Putin deserves to be dragged into international court for the death of approx. 300 airline passengers who may or may not have been the victims of a missile attack on their airliner by pro-Russian militants? But some 1300 mostly civilian deaths in Gaza are just freaking collateral damage in Israel's quest to defend themselves from a barrage of rockets? <br /><br />For fuck's sake, what is wrong with these so-called leaders and supposed impartial media? This is beyond sickening as it was when Israel was given carte blanche to butcher innocents and destroy infrastructure in Lebanon. And there was also the previous collective punishment foray into Gaza. When is it brutal enough to call out the truth? <br /><br />The current government of Israel is hell bent on wiping Palestine off the face of the earth.Beijing Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579118045254845839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-85254508046920655302014-07-31T17:15:04.648-07:002014-07-31T17:15:04.648-07:00Harper stopped general funding of UNWRA in 2009? w...Harper stopped general funding of UNWRA in 2009? wtf? <br /><br />Isn't UNWRA the only relief agency willing to work in an active battle zone in Palestine?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-88695652706333404442014-07-31T16:39:18.636-07:002014-07-31T16:39:18.636-07:00Harper did take some kind of a planeload with him,...Harper did take some kind of a planeload with him, when he visited Israel. Harper is encouraging Israel to make war with Palestine.<br /><br />Six members of my family, served during WW2. One brother was in the Liberation of a concentration camp. Our family had always supported the Jewish people.<br /><br />However, in dreadful shock when, I see Israel has thrown themselves in with the fascist monster Harper, I am in disbelief. Have the citizens of Israel, forgotten about their children, with tattoo`s on their little arms. The dead Palestinian children, are merely collateral damage.<br /><br />I have always detested Harper. He has no decency, honor, ethics nor morals, what-so-ever. Now I believe Israel, is no better that Harper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-3444414592667100012014-07-31T16:37:23.637-07:002014-07-31T16:37:23.637-07:00Clearly the Palestinians in Gaza are untermenschen...Clearly the Palestinians in Gaza are untermenschen and not worthy of concern. Still, I don't think the Netanyahu government has yet unveiled their final solution. Harper will support it whatever it is - especially if it involves a furnace-like environment.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-58751230052375016502014-07-31T15:46:10.657-07:002014-07-31T15:46:10.657-07:00Anon : According to the CBC :
"A senior NDP s...Anon : According to the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliamentarians-minus-ndp-on-perspective-mission-to-israel-1.2721143" rel="nofollow">CBC</a> :<br />"A senior NDP source told CBC News Tuesday that it did not want its MPs on the trip. "In the current context, only a mission organized by a neutral organization would be appropriate."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hilltimes.com/news/news/2014/07/30/jewish-arab-groups-see-little-difference-in-canadian-political-parties-positions-on/39256" rel="nofollow">Hill Times</a> :<br />"NDP MP Dewar turned down the trip to Israel<br /> “I didn’t think it would be responsible for me to participate in a rally that simply supported the position of the government of Israel. That seemed to be what it was in the end,” Mr. Dewar said of this week’s delegation. “It’s way too sensitive a time right now to be having people go as observers on a trip funded by a group that by its own claim [supports] one side.”<br />[the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)]<br /><br />Mr. Dewar also criticized the Conservatives’ decision to end its general funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 2009. <br /><br />The agency, which is responsible for providing humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip, has been accused by the Canadian and Israeli governments of being complicit in the rocket attacks by Hamas. UNRWA operated schools in the Gaza Strip have been the target of Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks. The agency says that six of the 245 schools that it operates in the Gaza Strip have been hit by the IDF since Operation Protective Edge began on July 8. <br /><br />“We totally disagree with the government’s approach. We think it’s not balanced. We think that we should be telling our friends, Israel and [Prime Minister] Netanyahu in particular, that he’s not doing enough to protect civilians,” Mr. Dewar told The Hill Times. “We disagree with Mr. Netanyahu and his approach, because notwithstanding their claim to trying to be careful, we’ve seen too high of civilian casualties and it’s unacceptable.” "<br /><br />Thwap : Ya think? See late update from Sweet above.<br /><br />Boris : He said something similar before the trip. Honestly I don't think he meant it like that, but doesn't seem to realize his words imply justification.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-3133902976878082142014-07-31T13:01:28.830-07:002014-07-31T13:01:28.830-07:00Interesting no one from the NDP went. Were they no...Interesting no one from the NDP went. Were they not invited or did the decline? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-103210300032622812014-07-31T12:53:13.832-07:002014-07-31T12:53:13.832-07:00What monsters. What empty-headed monsters.What monsters. What empty-headed monsters.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-10026478398901942162014-07-31T10:19:18.327-07:002014-07-31T10:19:18.327-07:00Vomit.
Is Hoback suggesting it is OK to kill civi...Vomit.<br /><br />Is Hoback suggesting it is OK to kill civilians if Hamas is hiding behind them?Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.com