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When is civil disobedience appropriate?
By Joseph Paritzky
Published: 01.05.05, 18:54
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1. "go ahead and smash a brick right between their eyes."?????
Chaim Yankel   (05.02.05)
PARITZKY IS INCITING TO VIOLENCE, PLAIN AND CLEAR...ARREST HIM !!!
2. Civil disobediance is part of a struggle
Sal Azam ,   Chicago, USA   (05.02.05)
If it is valid and not for robbery, theft and murder.The civil disobediance is allowed in a country but not in another country. The U.S cannot carry out civil disobediance in Iraq. Only the Iraqis can do. In the way the Israelis have the right to go for civil disobediance for a valid cause and not for grabbing more land in the Palestinian areas like thieves.
3. Mr/ Paritsky's thesis
Irving Alter ,   Jerusalem   (05.02.05)
The issue is not whether withdrawl is democratic. The issue is whether democratic process was followed in the decision making process. If it was not, then the decision is not democratic.
4. No excuse to allow that
TC ,   Tel aviv, Israel   (05.02.05)
There's no excuse for civil disobedience no matter what the cause is. Allowing that will be a milestones: people will know that this is the way to obtain what they want no matter what the price is and that laws don't matter. This will be the beginning of anarchy: if civil disobedience is allowed one time, it will happend again and again in the future on a different scale. Civil disobedience should not be tolerated for the sake of the State credibility. It's just an other way for the settlers to get what they want.
5. I am not even reading this rubbish
Meir ,   Beit Shemesh   (05.02.05)
I won't read read what this fellow says. Do you have no one better to preach to us than Paritsky, of all people? How can someone as morally corrupt as he is be a candidate to tell us what is right and wrong! Find someone else!!!
8. Ghandi and the religious
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA USA   (05.03.05)
Ghandi used civil disobediance to end the unjust British mandate. Religious Jews can use any non-violent means to prevent Jewish land from being stolen and tossed as so much rubbish to terrorist scum. So what if the roads are blocked? So what if there is almost no electricity? Far better that to happen than Jews stealing from Jews to give succor to terrorists.
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