Bethlehem – Ma’an – Three-quarters of Americans think that Israel should not build settlements on occupied Palestinian land, according to an opinion poll released on Wednesday. The poll, organized by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a project run by researchers at the University of Maryland, found that one third of Americans “show more sympathy for Israel than the Palestinians, substantially more than the 12 percent who express more sympathy for the Palestinians.”
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Oh no Saif. You aren't suppose to post poll results like that. Don't you know that all Americans are evil imperialist zionist hegemonic exploitative anti Palestinian bigots? ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this Saif. Just imagine how supportive America and the world would be of Palestine if the Palestinians had a competent PR effort and lobby.
Don't you know that all Americans are evil imperialist zionist hegemonic exploitative anti Palestinian bigots?
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Childish sarcasm based on a grotesque caricature of those of us critical of US imperialism. Did you listen right? US imperialism, not the US people. This kind of puerile comments only reflect badly upon yourself Anand. Grow up!
I liked As'ad's comment:
ReplyDelete"But 90% of those polled said that they don't know what Palestine is and they don't know what "the occupied territories refer to." ;)
:-D Cynical, but good!
ReplyDeleteThis shows the arrogance of the pro-Israel Zionists who are now being regularly published at the Huffington Post:
ReplyDeleteMind-State Solution
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-suissa/mind-state-solution_b_192307.html
My response to such arrogance(are you reading this anand?):
I am wondering what compromises or concessions has Israel ever made with the Arabs? Israel violently takes over and occupies Arab lands, dispossesses its people, and than when they decide to give these lands back, or even just talk about giving them back, they call this a compromise or concession? How can you make concessions for what wasn't yours to begin with to concede?
Israel takes thousands of Arab prisoners, and than when they decide to think about giving a few hundred back for one Israeli soldier, while they are in the process of taking in even more prisoners on a daily basis, they are somehow compromising or making a concession?
The only side that has been ever compromising or making concessions is the Arab side, and what has that done for them other than having to make even more concessions and compromises ...
What Israeli supporters such as David Suissa wants is for the Arabs to give up their best bargaining chip, which is its resistance, so that Israel can unilaterally decide for the Arabs how the Arabs can sell Israel peace....
If Israeli supporters truly want to understand why Israel is not trusted and largely hated in the Arab world, they should try and put themselves in the Arab people's position, and than ask themselves if they would like to be treated the same way as Israel has have been treating the Arabs...
Dismantling the settlements will most certainly help in dismantling the hatred..And being honest as to what crimes Israel has been committing towards the Arab people would be another way to dismantle the hatred ....
The occupied and oppressed Palestinians shouldn't have to be expected to sell Israel peace. Israel should sell peace to itself by being honest with itself, and only than will it be able to sell it to the Arabs.
ReplyDeleteAMEN Marion.Nice. Unfortunately there are also alot of creepy Arab leaders who sell out to USrael as molly's co-blogger Tony Sayegh, at palestinian pundit, amply documents.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately you are right ehhh, and as far as I see it they will be going to you know where, but it would be nice to see the Arab people overthrow them before that happens ...
ReplyDeleteSelling out one way or another is merely the reflection of the same system established all over the world. That is, an elite in control of the people and the resources. They all need to be taken care of in one fell swoop by the people, all over the world.
ReplyDeleteehhh, do you have a link to that comment of As'ad's? Thanks.
ReplyDelete<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Polls</h3>
ReplyDelete<div class="post-body entry-content">Here you go Molly. It's from today.</div>
<div class="post-body entry-content">"Three-quarters of Americans think that Israel should not build settlements on occupied Palestinian land, according to an opinion poll released on <span style="color: #0066cc;">Wednesday.</span>" But 90% of those polled said that they don't know what Palestine is and they don't know what "the occupied territories refer to. (thanks Olivia)</div>
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<div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span>Posted by <span>As'ad</span> </span><span>at <abbr class="published" title="2009-04-30T08:48:00-07:00"><span style="color: #968a0a;">8:48 AM</span></abbr> </span></div>
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And what do the remaining 25% f...s think?
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They don't think TGIA, they are in anands camp...LOL
ReplyDelete25%! That's a lot of assholes! Accepting the idea of annexation and settling must be ingrained in the American psyche to a certain degree! My take on it.
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ReplyDeletevza's admission of the brainwashed masses (above), for what it is worth.
ReplyDelete"Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Spain, etc."
ReplyDelete<span style="">Where any of those nations exterminated vza, were they thrown in chains and forced to dig for gold, did one single person even get kicked out of his home?</span>
<span style="">25% do not believe in International Law, Humanitarian Law, and the basic principles of humanity. </span>
ReplyDeleteThat is vza, you assume you have a brain to wash :)
ReplyDeleteThe forebearers of settling (since you like to call them this) rarely settled with such malice as the colonial Europeans, especially in the Americas - where the indigenous were wiped out to almost the point of extinction. It takes a special mentality to do something like that, akin to the Nazis -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_sLNYDU1yQ
The vza no-apologetic repetition
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjoBKE4Bfpk
Are you kidding? Do you have any idea how horrible the dictators in these countries (and all countries) use to be?
ReplyDeleteIt is only very recently that humanity has been blessed with decent leaders and governments (excluding ancient India and China of course ;) )
Do you have any idea what we're talking about?
ReplyDeleteMost Americans, as most people in the world, are basically decent and fair minded people.
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But I asgree! 75% are!! No joking aside, it's true that for many people it's still like abstract art! Abstract politics, abstract geography, abstract history!! I was having a bit of fun, why do you take such quips seriously? Aren't we allowed to vent a little bit?
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To some extent vza is correct. I really think it's just a matter of most Americans not having the knowledge and information about Palestine. It is very, very difficult to get that knowledge because our press is so pro-Israel, although it has become vastly easier with the Intertoobz. I honestly think that if more Americans knew the truth they would be horrified, which is why the Gaza assault was such an eye-opener to many of them. But you have to know how deeply ingrained pro-Israel sentiment is in this country, especially for people of my generation and older ones; it's not easy to break that mindset but I do believe that little by little it is happening.
ReplyDeleteNow you're asking for a lot! :-D
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ReplyDelete<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">"we were merely following the example of all those great invaders and occupiers of Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Spain, etc."</span>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">No you were not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I maintain that there is no comparison at all between the fate of Native Americans and peoples subjugated by Islam. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The tolerance within the body of Islam was something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers. You have provided two examples </span>(Turky in WWI and Saddam in the Iran war) that occurred after the collapse of the Islamic caliphate. This does not erase the Islamic legacy of 1000 of protecting human dignity and equality. Here is just one example, </span><span style="">Turkish ships took Jews who had suffered under dogmatic Christian persecution from Spain to save them from the Inquisition and they had their Synagogues restored in Ottoman-conquered lands, and they prospered in the multicultural Ottoman society as did the Christians of the Middle East. At the time, the catholic monarchs of Europe decided to kill or deport the hundreds of thousands of Muslims that fell under their rule, and the Ottoman Caliph decided ‘to follow in their example’ and rid the middle east of Christians once and for all, but he was prevented from doing so by the Islamic scholars because tolerance is a basic principle of Islam. If only he had done so, there would have been no Assyrians or others left in the Middle East at all. </span><span style=""></span>
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r.s. Can I sell you a bridge?
ReplyDeleteHave you forgotten about the 1840s Takfiri army from the Arabian peninsula that invaded Najaf? Do you rmember that they tried to destroy the holiest sites in Shia islam?
Have you forgotten about the millions of people killed because they refused to convert to estremist Salafi Takfiri Islam (Shia, Sufi, moderate Sunni, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Hindu, Zorastrian)?