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In praise of Nakba Law
Yoaz Hendel
Published: 28.03.11, 11:09
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31. salma
pini   (03.29.11)
Mlk was a huge supporter of israels right to exist. Stop with the pallywood!!
32. To David , Boulde # 30
Boris ,   USA   (03.29.11)
Arab representatives will not attend Knesset session to celebrate Nakba. Can you imagine Congressmen and Senators from Southern States take day off from Washington duties to celebrate Confederacy, decry everything USA stand for and get paid for it?
33. To #14 - This is only about Nakba.
Boris ,   USA   (03.29.11)
I wish this would be adapted in USA as well. If you tell your private employer that he is a piece of shit, you will be fired. The same should be the same in public sector as well.
34. as if money or cut of the funds solve the problem
salamat ,   jerusalem   (03.29.11)
money or funds share to help in solving problems but sometimes it create problems if it is not to israil it is to the other fore an example in nakba .... once an american ---he is a lecturer in a university --- said ..the logic is deviation of the locals in palastine by the jews in 48 war as the locals were poor ignorants invaded by the jews who were rich educated and supported by british goverment who ruled these people ..... sure people still here and there in camps they are still palastinians .. education may change money may change but it is not the only effect to awaken people but help in solving problems
35. # 30
rita ,   Israel   (03.29.11)
If they did celebrate that event was it financed by tax payer money? It isn't the speech, it is the financing of it. It is an anti-traitor law and every country in the world has one. The most famous American traitor, the cowardly Benedict Arnold had to flee to Canada to avoid a firing squad. Traitors in the US are subject to life in prision or death penality. The Palestians should be grateful that this in not the case in Israel. We do not have a death penality.
36. salamat #34 you still don't get it
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (03.29.11)
We really don't care what lies an American lecturer that has no clue about the facts says or doesn't say. It was funny to hear that the British government supported us in anyway, because the opposite is the truth. Nor do we care if you hate us, or complain about our existence. The purpose of the law is to ensure that our government doesn't fund your racism. That is the entire reason for the law. But then again you aren't bright enough to understand simple things like that.
37. Nekbah is the day when Arabs can't kill, destroy and loot!
360 days of nekbah!   (03.30.11)
Nekbah was the day when Arabs wasn't successul in kiling Jews and taking their lands. A day of Nekbah is the day during which Arabs cannot kill, destroy, or loot. For Arabs in Iraq every day is a joyful day and not a day of Nekbah, becuase every day they kill other human beings, other Arabs in suicide bombings. In Libya and Syria every day is a joyful day for Arabs beucase they are killing other Arabs. For Jews, the only day of Nekbah is the day when we cannot build, when we cannot learn and when we cannot heal. May God give Arabs 360 days of Nekbah every year during which they wont' be able to kill or destroy or loot other human beings including other Arabs. May they never have the power and strenght to hurt other human beings and find joy in it.
38. March 30th! Today is Buy Israeli Goods Day!
(03.30.11)
March 30th! Today is Buy Israeli Goods Day! Where EVER you live Buy Israeli Goods Today! Be sure to thank the store manager for carrying the wonderful Israeli Goods! B.I.G. :)
39. As a United States Citizen, How DARE You
Rebecca ,   Chicago, USA   (05.09.11)
How dare you use the words of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. to justify such a position! "One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an *exile in his own land.* So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition." This is from the "I Have a Dream" speech. Do you really think MLK would support such a position on the Nakba law? MLK called for freedom to ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi to every mountainside. He called for equality! Why should tax dollars only go to an elite who support a singular view? Why are the people who occupy a same land not given rights? Is it not the government of Israel who seeks to destroy the inhabitants of it's proclaimed boarders? *I* have a dream that one day even the state of Israel, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. FREEDOM and JUSTICE. Freedom to speak the truth so as to obtain the justice humanity must seek. Justice, as in equality. Funding not to serve only a singular viewpoint, but rights to all. I don't care to change you're mind, but how DARE you claim to know how others *should* think and how dare you mutilate the words of one of our greatest hero's to do it. You should be ashamed.
40. #19, You do know MLK never said those things, right?
Rebecca ,   Chicago, USA   (05.09.11)
Even CAMERA agreed that those quotations were a "hoax." Just type "MLK on Israel" into google. Really. Guy, the INGNORANT. Jeeze, Louise!
41. DEMOCRACY? REALLY?
Lana ,   Nashville USA   (07.06.11)
Definition of DEMOCRACY: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Democracy "a government where the people share in directing the activities of the state, as DISTINCT FROM GOV.S CONTROLLED BY A SINGLE CLASS, SELECT GROUP, or autocrat. ... Such a philosophy places a high value on the equality of individuals and would free people as far as possible FROM RESTRAINTS NOT SELF -IMPOSED. It insists that necessary restraints be imposed ONLY BY THE CONSENT OF THE MAJORITY and that they conform to the principle of equality." If Israel really wants a Democracy, then take all of Israel incl. the occupied territories and make it ONE STATE with ONE VOTE for every PERSON. Problem solved and a true Democracy will flourish. LET FREEDOM FLOW!!!
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