straightUp wrote:
No they don't. That's just a blatant lie!
It's one thing to enter the argument with some misconceptions Joy but to continue to hoist lie after lie in a desperate attempt to discredit the suffering of the Palestinian people just because you're taking a side is disgusting. I'm sure your ancestors are turning over in their graves.
"... obviously you have no clue what I was referring to. "
Maybe I don't have a clue. But it sounds to me like the same thing I hear from many liberals. Protesting is beautiful. No matter whether it is violent or peaceful. No matter whether the cause is just or rationalized. No matter if life, limb, or property is lost, no matter if children are purposely put in the path of danger. And no matter if for the same cause the protesters and their admirers won't lift a finger to help individually. The act of protesting is beautiful. So what have you, or more importantly these "protesters" done to improve their conditions?
"You don't have to suppress news agencies to open alternate channels and flood the media market with lies."
So you believe more people get their news from Israelphilic new sources than CNN, MSNBC, NYT, ...? Any flooding the Israelphilic might do is minuscule in comparison.
"No you don't. Not if your using the Carlisle Indian School as a reference. And people of Indian decent today claiming to know what oppression is like is no more ludicrous than blacks today saying they know what it's like to be a slave in chains. I'm not saying the Indians weren't oppressed, just that I doubt seriously that YOU are familiar enough to make such silly statements."
Our freedom didn't come with the Emancipation proclamation. It only came in 1978. Until then we were wards of the state. I have scars on my head from being stoned by non American Indian kids when my sib and I were enrolled in a non Indian school when I was in kindergarten. I staggered home drenched in blood. My clothes were peeled off in the hospital and burned when my head was stitched up. If my head were shaved it would show dozens of scars. After I was more careful where I walked as this wasn't a one time occurrence. When entering class for the first time, the teacher protested having an Indian in class. When she was over ruled she pushed one desk into a far corner facing the wall where I was to sit. I wasn't allowed to share the girl's lavatory. Similar treatments in stores. And forget restaurants.
It was my mother at Carlisle. Not some distant ancestor. Yet I didn't grow up filled with hate. I didn't grow up playing the victim card. I did grow up with a sense of justice. But justice, not victimhood. There IS a difference!
Re: foreign aide:
Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the
mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed more than $5 billion...
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdfRe: payment to families of killed terrorists; see Hamas' own statements which others have posted on this thread.