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[David Gehrig]

Well, this is what I mean about the Counterpunch attitude, which seems to be that all the worst problems in the world can be solved if only people hate Israel enough. 

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> On Apr 26, 2014, at 12:17 AM, "ya'aQov" <yaaqovz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Carl,
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> Your diversion is NOT MY note.  In ADDITION to Israel, do address
> apartheid ALSO in those other countries -- if AWARE is is not about
> you and your memories, if AWARE is about apartheid.  Is it?  And try
> to become also accurate rather than just supporting bigots.
> 
> Palestinians Arabs in Israel and Israelis equally share the same bus,
> hospital, school, university system.  Palestinian Arabs are allowed to
> purchase apartments in Israel. Omar Barghouti, founder of BDS is a
> student at the University of Tel Aviv, using its resources to
> propagate BDS.
> 
> What exactly are YOU calling apartheid in Israel? aren't you confusing
> something?
> 
> Nillofar sent examples to systemic exceptions worth inquiring, and I
> shared them with the list.  Let's try, just try, to make AWARE about
> accurate human rights issues.
> 
> And try to loose your habit of tagging people as 'defenders of Israel'
> or 'Germans' and alike, reducing their opinions.  This tagging seems
> an Internet way of sticking stars of David.
> 
> Ya'aqov
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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
> <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> Ah, that takes me back. When I was a callow youth and someone would mention the gulags, orthodox CP (not Counterpunch) friends would reply in a rush, "What-about-the-Negroes-in-the-South?!"
>> 
>> It's proof of the moral and political bankruptcy of the defenders of the State of Israel that they're reduced to 'tu quoque' arguments. They've refined it to 'Why-single-out-Israel?"
>> 
>> I suppose we're fortunate the Nazis didn't think of that. Or maybe people would immediately realize how ridiculous "Why single out Germany?" would have sounded.
>> 
>> --CGE
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Apr 25, 2014, at 10:13 PM, ya'aQov <yaaqovz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Your own activities, David Johnson, can answer your question.  You
>>> have systematically (notes to us,  or on the air)  discriminated
>>> against Jews/Zionists/Israelis as the only perpetrators of apartheid
>>> in the Middle East.  Yet, you have said nothing about apartheid
>>> against
>>> 
>>> copts in Egypt
>>> Assyrians in Iraq
>>> Women in the the Moslem world
>>> LGBT in the Moslem/Arab world
>>> Mennonites in Libya
>>> 
>>> Libyans in Libya
>>> Syrians in Syria
>>> 
>>> Malaysian (Moslem) foreign workers in Arab Gulf countries
>>> Egyptian foreign workers in Jordan
>>> 
>>> Wherever you place yourself, probably in the Left, you did that.  Why
>>> didn't you protest those apartheid instances??
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