When venerated Israeli film-maker Marcel Ophuls produces a doc sympathetic to the Palestinians, you should know that there are deep cracks in the very foundation of the state.
How timely, how ironic, that this story appears on the very day that Netanyahu is once again bemoaning the lack of international condemnation of terrorism in Israel with the same enthusiasm the international community showed in condemning the terror attacks in France.
For sure, France is far from blameless in bringing this tragedy upon itself. There will always be Algeria, and the manifold excesses of France's colonial empire, and the all too enthusiastic rush into Washington's "War on Terror."
Those facts of French history should be enough to shame BHL and other warmongers of the Republic into silence, at least for the next thousand years or so.
But the sins of colonial-era France have nothing on today's apartheid regime in Israel.
Apartheid walls, apartheid highways, new apartheid settlements on stolen land announced practically every week. Prison time for children throwing stones. Live ammunition against children throwing stones...
What has Israel become?
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Denmark and South Africa pile on BDS bandwagon
Both countries have announced they will no longer allow the import of West Bank products labelled "made in Israel".
This is as it should be. The West Bank is not Israel.
Already the usual suspects are crying "anti-semitism".
Government spokesman Yigal Palmor claimed this move has racist overtones and the South African ambassador would be called in for a spanking.
Why the South African and not the Dane is an interesting question. Perhaps with fellow whites one can be more discreet. The South African aspect did remind me of an interesting story though.
Many years ago I was scouting out opportunities in the furniture import business. A friendly retailer lent me his business licence which permitted me access to a couple of trade shows.
I found a nice line of occasional pieces that were supposedly sourced from Israel. Not being aware that Israel had a robust furniture export sector, I asked a few questions.
Turns out the Israeli furniture was actually from South Africa, which at the time was being slowly strangled by the anti-apartheid sanctions. As with all boycott and sanction regimes, some enterprising individuals had found opportunity in adversity.
Thirty years later much has changed. Majority rule is alive, and if not well, at least hobbling along in South Africa. Apartheid is dead.
Dead in South Africa, but according to the BDS movement, alive and well in Israel.
This is as it should be. The West Bank is not Israel.
Already the usual suspects are crying "anti-semitism".
Government spokesman Yigal Palmor claimed this move has racist overtones and the South African ambassador would be called in for a spanking.
Why the South African and not the Dane is an interesting question. Perhaps with fellow whites one can be more discreet. The South African aspect did remind me of an interesting story though.
Many years ago I was scouting out opportunities in the furniture import business. A friendly retailer lent me his business licence which permitted me access to a couple of trade shows.
I found a nice line of occasional pieces that were supposedly sourced from Israel. Not being aware that Israel had a robust furniture export sector, I asked a few questions.
Turns out the Israeli furniture was actually from South Africa, which at the time was being slowly strangled by the anti-apartheid sanctions. As with all boycott and sanction regimes, some enterprising individuals had found opportunity in adversity.
Thirty years later much has changed. Majority rule is alive, and if not well, at least hobbling along in South Africa. Apartheid is dead.
Dead in South Africa, but according to the BDS movement, alive and well in Israel.
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