Boycotting Israel Is the Wrong Way to Go!
A British Teachers' Union Weighs a Boycott of Israeli
Teachers
By ALAN COWELL
The union is considering a boycott on Israeli lecturers who
do not dissociate themselves from what it called Israel's
"apartheid policies."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/world/europe/14britain.html?th&emc=th
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The impulse to lash out at either side in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not the way to go. Manifestly the two peoples there are linked together by geography as though they were a pair of raging Siamese twins.
Neither side is so innocent that the other cannot muster a litany of wrongs that deserve retaliation. But tit for tat is a dead end. It only prolongs the suffering of innocents. And taking sides compounds the conflict. Stop it, you Brits!
Israel/Palestine does not represent a war between good and evil. It is a tragic conflict between two peoples who have each been oppressed by external tormentors and who have now turned upon each other as surrogates for the past wrongs done to them. The Palestinians are not the Nazis and the Israelis are not a new European colonial power bent of extracting resources from the land and its peoples.
Both have so much to gain by making peace and sharing. Let us hope!
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Israel_Palestine
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Teachers
By ALAN COWELL
The union is considering a boycott on Israeli lecturers who
do not dissociate themselves from what it called Israel's
"apartheid policies."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/world/europe/14britain.html?th&emc=th
................................
The impulse to lash out at either side in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not the way to go. Manifestly the two peoples there are linked together by geography as though they were a pair of raging Siamese twins.
Neither side is so innocent that the other cannot muster a litany of wrongs that deserve retaliation. But tit for tat is a dead end. It only prolongs the suffering of innocents. And taking sides compounds the conflict. Stop it, you Brits!
Israel/Palestine does not represent a war between good and evil. It is a tragic conflict between two peoples who have each been oppressed by external tormentors and who have now turned upon each other as surrogates for the past wrongs done to them. The Palestinians are not the Nazis and the Israelis are not a new European colonial power bent of extracting resources from the land and its peoples.
Both have so much to gain by making peace and sharing. Let us hope!
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Israel_Palestine
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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