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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, November 2, 2010 10:29:42 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Nov. 1 / Anarchists Against the Wall (Israeli who refused compulsory military service)<BR></FONT><BR>Thanks David for this report!<BR>I met the speaker on Saturday, and she had obviously thought long and<BR>hard about passive resistance and rock throwing. She is very animate<BR>that she would never throw rocks. But in the big picture, the rocks<BR>are nothing compared to the bullets.<BR><BR>BTW, she said a few other things about the bullets:<BR>* rubber bullets are bullets with rubber around them. They are still<BR>bullets, and if they hit someone correctly, they can kill.<BR>*
Also, little .22 are being used a lot. The way they were described<BR>made them sound like bb -- and they can kill if they hit someone in<BR>the head or just right in the chest.<BR><BR>And, yes, Sarah Lazare is full of energy and drive.<BR><BR>IMHO, It is a far, far, better thing that the Zionists are coming to<BR>the events than if they ignored the events.<BR><BR>-karen medina<BR><BR>On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David Green <<A href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> I attended this event last evening. It was well-attended, well over 100,<BR>> perhaps close to 150. The young Israeli woman who spoke was difficult to<BR>> hear, but very articulate. During the "question" period, she was joined by<BR>> an equally articulate Palestinian student. Nevertheless, the 15 or 20<BR>> pro-Israel students were allowed to dominate the "question" period with<BR>>
their Hasbara statements, and the speakers were forced into addressing<BR>> mostly the nature of Palestinian violence. To the young woman's credit, she<BR>> repeatedly emphasized the nature of Israel as a terror state.<BR>><BR>> After the event, Sara Lazare of Students for Justice in Palestine revealed<BR>> that she had received threats prior to the event. She did not elaborate<BR>> on this. I would hope that the nature and possible sources of these threats<BR>> would be made public, and addressed by the administration (LOL).<BR>><BR>> It needs to be said that students who defend Israel in the manner of these<BR>> "questioners" truly operate at no higher moral level than "good Germans" in<BR>> the 1930s. Yes, they're brainwashed--that's the point. But the nature of the<BR>> "question" period didn't allow for this point to be clearly made. It should<BR>> be--these students are shamefully ignorant and racist.
The students who<BR>> attended in order to try to learn something were in a sense short-changed,<BR>> because the historical context just wasn't made clear enough by the<BR>> speakers, although that's not a criticism of them.<BR>><BR>> Sara Lazare was previously an undergraduate on this campus, and while gone<BR>> did some fine work with the Iraq war resistance movement. She's now in grad<BR>> school in Middle East studies. She's an important person for the antiwar<BR>> movement to have on this campus.<BR>><BR>> I personally think that SJP and the local pro-Palestinian movement, such as<BR>> it is, needs to move beyond being "reactive," either in the case of events<BR>> like Daniel Pipes, or even in terms of events that provide an opportunity<BR>> for Zionist students to badger visitors like the woman last evening. There's<BR>> just no point any longer. If there is broader support for the Palestinians<BR>>
and against US support for Israel, then it's time to have proactive, regular<BR>> public displays of that view, especially in ways that challenge the<BR>> cowardice of Jewish institutions on campus and in the community.<BR>><BR>> DG<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Peace-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A><BR><A href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target=_blank>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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