No there isn’t a better forum because our social contract says we don’t hide issues. Someone would like to downplay the apartheid and sweep this discussion elsewhere.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:35 AM, Avi <fiendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we can safely agree that past actions are not the same as ongoing > actions. The objections raised include ongoing actions, not just past ones. I > think we can also agree that entrenched parties aren't going to convince each > other about the rights and wrongs of Israel via this mailing list. Is there a > better forum for this discussion? > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 12:31 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> On 3/21/19 5:10 PM, Nasir El-Amin wrote: >>> Debian having a conference in contested land where military conflict and >>> oppressive acts are occurring is unacceptable. >> >> According to this logic, you wouldn't be allowed to host a DebConf in almost >> any >> country in the world as almost any stretch of land has changed owners, >> deliberately >> or by force over the time. >> >> The farm of my great grand-parents is now owned by Polish people and the >> land around >> it which used to be Germany is now Poland. But that's a historic fact that >> cannot be >> reverted. That doesn't mean I boycott Poland or Polish people in any way. In >> fact, one >> of my best friends is from Poland. >> >> Adrian >> >> -- >> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org >> `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de >> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
