Anger is a legitimate emotion in the face of injustice. Passive acceptance of evil is not a virtue.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Financial Times blast on settlements will strike fear at Hasbara Central (if not among liberal Zionists and ‘glitzy blondes’)
"An editorial in this weekend’s Financial Times, the
salmon-colored tribune of London’s City, the financial district, is
certainly striking terror into Hasbara Central in Israel– if not at the
State Department in Washington. In forceful language that looks like it
could have been lifted from a Palestine solidarity publication, the FT
says that Scarlett Johansson has “accidentally turned a searchlight on
an important issue–whether it is right or lawful to do business with
companies that operate in illegal Israel settlements on Palestinian land…”
"It is disingenuous to romanticise settlement enterprises. The occupation imprisons thousands of the Palestinians’ young men, gives their land and water to settlers, demolishes their houses and partitions the remaining territory with scores of checkpoints and segregated roads. There are almost no basic foundations for an economy. The way to create Palestinian jobs is to end the occupation and let Palestinians build those foundations – not to build “bridges to peace” on other people’s land without their permission."
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