@Advocate,
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The back and forth of a nuclear war might well bring on deadly radiation throughout the world.
True, and if nuclear weapons are used the effect will be felt for thousands of years bringing about human mutations and cancers galore.
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This is all the more reason the world should get the Pals to come to the table and negotiate reasonably.
Why do you assiduously try to shift the blame exclusively to the Palestinians, Advocate. The Pals ask the Israelis to discontinue building settlements in the West Bank as a show of good faith, and the Zionist's action said in effect "screw you." The US also said the Israelis could keep building because this would not impact the outcome of the Peace talks. And an even more contemptuous action came during Vice President Biden's visit to Israel two years ago when the Israeli government flagrantly announced they would build a new settlement, thereby embarrassing the VP of the US, indicating to his face they were not going to stop building where they want to. Of course Hillary Clinton went on national TV and publicly lambasted the Israelis for their lack of respect to the VP......and that was that! The rogue nation continues to get its 3.1 Billion annually.
"The movement calling for the boycott, divestiture and sanction of Israel is gaining momentum globally.
"At the height of its military - particularly nuclear - and economic power, Israel is feeling uncharacteristically vulnerable; but this time the threat is ironically coming from a nonviolent movement anchored in international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Last June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu effectively declared the Palestinian-led global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement a "strategic threat" to Israel's regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid by deciding to assign the overall responsibility for fighting against the BDS to the ministry of strategic affairs.
"This dramatic shift reflects the failure of Israel's well-oiled "Brand Israel" campaign, run by the foreign ministry since BDS was launched in 2005, which sees culture as a propaganda tool and whose logic is to use Israeli artists and writers to show the world "Israel's prettier face".
"The realization by many people of conscience around the world that Israel's impunity can be brought to an end only through popular internal resistance coupled with effective, morally-consistent and sustained international pressure and accountability, has given great impetus to BDS campaigns. Israel's brutal and illegal blockade of Gaza; its untamed construction of illegal settlements and a separation wall in the occupied West Bank; its "strategy of Judaisation" in Jerusalem, the Galilee, the Jordan Valley and the Naqab (Negev), as a ranking UN official reports; its adoption of new racist laws; and its denial of the rights of refugees, have all alienated many of its hitherto supporters."
www.factsandlogic.org/FLAME_hotline_011414.html
www.blogforarizona.com/.../bds-movement-gaining-momentum.html?...
www.bdsmovement.net/tag/israel
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201312225320764121