Amid protests and calls for boycotts, Israeli athletes like Lina Glushko continue to face scrutiny over their ties to Israel's military and the global response to Israel's war on Gaza.
War isn’t overrated, it’s terrible. Equating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Israel’s defence of itself is bizarre. All that is needed to stop all this is for Israel’s Arab neighbours to accept its right to exist in peace. Targeting individual Israelis is perverse.
The rationale for the comparison between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's invasion of Gaza, Lebanon and Syria is very clear in the post. Why not address the argument instead of responding with banal cliches? The cliches don't work anymore - especially when they are used as a Hasbala technique to avoid inconvenient facts and evidence.
Israel's Arab neighbors have made significant concessions over the years, including acknowledging Israel's right to exist in the Oslo accords and other agreements. But Israel has continuously failed to show a similar commitment to peace, and has kept building illegal settlements. Israeli leaders like Netanyahu have conspicuously avoided opportunities for peace, especially when their own political positions are dependent on the continuation of war.
If one considers the actions of Israeli governments, as opposed to their words, a common theme has been a steady push to occupy more territory. Only last month, Israel moved to occupy more of the Golan Heights, as Israel announced plans to double the Israeli population of the region, despite the fact that Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights is illegal.
Your simplistic commentary barely merits a response but how sickening to say ‘the Arabs should just accept peace’. That in the face of decades of mass illegal detentions, mass illegal extra judicial killings, mass torture in what B’Tselem calls Israel’s network of torture camps, ongoing, violent and illegal settler expansions and what the ICJ has found to be the operation of an apartheid regime. And as for whinging about attacking an ‘individual’, in this case Glushko, it’s as if you didn’t read the piece or have any understanding of the South African boycotts. The laziness is frankly exhausting.
War isn’t overrated, it’s terrible. Equating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Israel’s defence of itself is bizarre. All that is needed to stop all this is for Israel’s Arab neighbours to accept its right to exist in peace. Targeting individual Israelis is perverse.
The rationale for the comparison between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's invasion of Gaza, Lebanon and Syria is very clear in the post. Why not address the argument instead of responding with banal cliches? The cliches don't work anymore - especially when they are used as a Hasbala technique to avoid inconvenient facts and evidence.
Israel's Arab neighbors have made significant concessions over the years, including acknowledging Israel's right to exist in the Oslo accords and other agreements. But Israel has continuously failed to show a similar commitment to peace, and has kept building illegal settlements. Israeli leaders like Netanyahu have conspicuously avoided opportunities for peace, especially when their own political positions are dependent on the continuation of war.
If one considers the actions of Israeli governments, as opposed to their words, a common theme has been a steady push to occupy more territory. Only last month, Israel moved to occupy more of the Golan Heights, as Israel announced plans to double the Israeli population of the region, despite the fact that Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights is illegal.
https://www.dw.com/en/israel-aims-to-double-population-in-occupied-golan-heights/video-71063116
Your simplistic commentary barely merits a response but how sickening to say ‘the Arabs should just accept peace’. That in the face of decades of mass illegal detentions, mass illegal extra judicial killings, mass torture in what B’Tselem calls Israel’s network of torture camps, ongoing, violent and illegal settler expansions and what the ICJ has found to be the operation of an apartheid regime. And as for whinging about attacking an ‘individual’, in this case Glushko, it’s as if you didn’t read the piece or have any understanding of the South African boycotts. The laziness is frankly exhausting.