I call on on all civil society institutions and organizations around the world to implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program of Israel until such time as the full individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people are realized, as, for example, through the one person, one vote, one state solution. For the sake of world peace Israel must be enjoined to solution now.
The USA Green Party is calling for actions against Israel. The Green Party of Canada should do likewise.
"One person, one vote, one state, the refugees will return." Elsewhere in his address Shokr said, "Canada must dismantle its economic and political ties with Israel until it ends its apartheid; this is what we are calling for."The world would have been a far better place had Israel been forced through collective world action to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. Allowing this festering wound to ferment does not serve Canadian interests.
The Green Party of Canada's current cop-out position is that of two states: one Palestinian, the other Israeli. How fair will that be!? In any case, I do not think we should endorse one specific solution or another. It is a complicated affair. I do say that an immediate ultimatum should be forced upon Israel through international action (including total blockade) to resolve the refugee situation to international standards.
Obfuscating counter argument:
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15893
A women's rights issue?? ... gimme a break.
The terrorists are the Arabs, not the Israelis.
ReplyDeleteYou lefties just want Islam to rule the world. Come on, admit it.
I see that Dr. Petals has been here, therefore I do cower as I ponder whether or not to support or disown your "Green" proposal.
ReplyDeleteThe Israeli government has said a thousand times that negotiation with Palestinian's is not going to occur as long as terrorism is used against the people of Isreal.The world doesn't force the U.S. to negotiate with Ossama bin Laden or Mexican immigrants. Though in the end I think you have a good solution to a very persistant difficulty.Of course we should know that Palestians are led by Islamist's whose sole intent is too eliminate Isreal and the Jews from the face of this earth, and not too live peacfully with them under any conditions.So forcing peace given this circumstance could not be achieved in my opinion.
The GPUS approved this resolution. I support its intent. The GPC may be assumed to support the intent unless it states otherwise.
ReplyDeleteThe issue is that Israel must settle-up with the Palestinians. Israel will be punished until it does so. Simple.
RESOLUTION
Adopted by the Green Party of the United States, November 21, 2005
1. The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) publicly calls for divestment from and boycott of the State of Israel until such time as the full individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people are realized.
To maximize the effect of the Green Party's support for divestment and boycott of Israel:
2. The party calls on all civil society institutions and organizations around the world to implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program. Further, the party calls on all governments to support this program and to implement state level boycotts.
3. The party urges the Campus Greens network to work in cooperation with other campus organizations to achieve institutional participation in this effort.
4. The GPUS National Committee directs the Green Peace Action Committee (GPAX) to encourage the larger anti-war movement to promote the divestment/boycott effort.
5. The GPUS National Committee directs the International Committee to work with our sister Green parties around the world in implementing an international boycott.
Justice obviously doens't factor into the equation of this "solution".
ReplyDeletePeace can't be forced by punishing one side. You're suggesting that Israelis are the sole people responsible for problems. How about the Arabs' terrorism? You're going to tell me blowing up civilians is justified?
Besides, the refugee problem isn't Israel's making: when the Arab countries declared war on Israel soon after it declared independance, they told the Arabs living in Israel to leave, since Israel would be destroyed in no time at all, whereupon they'd get their homes back. If you look into it, you'll find the other Arab states hate the so-called 'Palestinians' (which word is a misnomer, since Jews living in British-mandate Palestine were Palestinians too; the term didn't just refer to Arabs) and absolutely refuse to have the refugees move to their countries. Where they have moved, they're oppressed second class citizens. Israeli Arabs are free and have voting rights, by contrast.
You need to get all the facts and information before taking position.
Consider reading investigative journalist Stewart Bell's The Martyr's Oath to see what REALLY is the cause of terrorism. Namely: fanatical indoctrination and creation of an illusion that Muslims are being oppressed worldwide by some Judeo-Christian Crusade. A Judeo-Christian Crusade is laughable in its own right, let alone the notion all Muslims are being oppressed. The irony is that the worst places for a Muslim (or anyone else for that matter) to live, according to the UN's annual rankings... are Muslim countries! The West got rid of its despots ages ago.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Osama makes so many videos? They're the equivalent of MTV music clips for the Jihadi youth.
The GPUS resolution is beautifully simple:
ReplyDeleteIsrael, resolve the Palestinian situation; the refugee problem has gone on long enough.
It's quite lecentre: the left, and the Greens are as left (even extreme left) as they come, side with terrorists and Arabs all the time. This is why they want to flood our countries with radical Islamists, because they think they can control us all this way. But they ignore the fact that these radicals want to eradicate the entire West, and that includes the lefties too.
ReplyDeleteIsrael has had to defend itself against terrorist acts for too long. If an ultimatum is to be set, it must be set for the Arabs, not Israel.
How do you propose that Israel "settle-up" with the Palestinians? What would the conditions which each side would have to meet?
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