@izzythepush,
Sure, izzy, the Israelis implemented these checkpoints, not to prevent terrorists from bringing bombs and weapons into Israel and the fact that they found an explosive device in an ambulance doesn't prove a thing. They did it to kill Palestinian babies, pregnant women and people having heart attacks.
And they don't warn Palestinians to evacuate buildings they have targeted for bombing and Hamas doesn't use civilians as human shields.
You know it's OK for you to get off of the Palestinian Propaganda Train every now and then. I think they'll still let you keep that Keffiyeh you wear to disrupt London concerts by Israeli musicians.
Speaking of the Academic and Cultural boycott of Israel, can there be a more perfect demonstration of the pathetic reincarnation of the 70's Radical Chic?
The list of participating artists is underwhelming and led by over-the hill former stars desperately seeking relevance and familiar sounds and smells of the good old days. As boycotts go, it's a sad one.
The rhetoric they spout at every opportunity is straight from the Palestinian propaganda machine ( the originators of the BDS movement) and demonstrates they have made no effort to educate themselves on any aspect of the conflict beyond what is fed to them by sources like The Electronic Intifada.
Not content to simply make their case and ask artists to decide on their own if they will or will not participate BDS organizers seek to pressure those who decide to perform into changing their mind. Despite the BDS call for a letter, e-mail, and tweet campaign to stop Alicia Keyes from conducting her scheduled concert, and the resultant wave of condemnations, insults and death-threats, Keyes was in Israel performing earlier this month.
In an ironic turn of events that apparently sailed right over the heads of Roger Waters and Elvis Costello, in addition to the usual rash of condemnations and death-threats an artist scheduled to perform in Israel can expect from BDS supporters, Paul McCartney received the following warning from terrorist Omar Bakri Mohammed:
“Thus Paul McCartney is the enemy of every Muslim. We have what we call ‘sacrifice’ operatives who will not stand by while he joins in a celebration of their oppression. If he values his life Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him.”
Quote:When singer Moby was interviewed on Army Radio shortly before he performed in Israel, he said that the intensity of the attacks against him before he came to Israel made him suspect that this wasn't an objective movement that was concerned with people's welfare, but with something dark and dubious.
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