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The loudest opponents of Zionism suffer from it the least. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Joseph Catron <jncat...@gmail.com> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:40 PM, shaun may <mn...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Omar Barghouti is a member of the advisory board of this organisation. He > > does not wish to entrench Zionist apartheid in a phony "two-state > solution" > > > However, the majority of his colleagues on the BDS National Committee are > two-state supporters. And although Omar will rarely say an offensive word > to anyone - which is why he's good at what he does - I feel safe in > guessing that he would not care for you calling them "Palestinian > traitors." > > As the Times reported Tuesday, > > "In a December poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey > Research, 65 percent of people over 50 said they supported the two-state > solution, compared with 47 percent of those 18 to 34." > > http://nyti.ms/1h1B40n > > All "traitors"? If so, this place is really screwed. > > Seriously, where do people get off? If you disagree with a position held by > millions of Palestinians, that's fine - lots of other Palestinians do, too > - but don't assume they're all dummies, or worse, for not buying into your > brilliant idea. Most of them have intelligent, principled, and I dare say > more informed reasons for thinking as they do, and pretending otherwise is > the stuff of entitled jackasses. > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/sranz18%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
