60 cities to mark Israeli Apartheid week March 14-18 , what about Egyptian dictator week?

[doodle]

Apparently 60 cities in US, UK, Canada and around the world are celeberating March14-18 as Israel Apartheid Week with much of the fuss at university campuses and other liberal hot spots.

Question for those who planned these dates:

- Granted democracy is unfolding there but why there was no Egyptian dictatorship week planned in previous 7 years and only Israel was singled out?

- More importantly, in many schools this is the spring break kick off season, who in the world plans a boycott week same week as spring break activities?

Israel Apartheid Week, and efforts to combat it, begin
By JORDANA HORN
03/07/2011 20:16

Exclusive: NGO Monitor announces efforts to combat Apartheid Week with “BDS Sewer System” to detail sources of delegitimization campaigns.
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NEW YORK – Israeli Apartheid Week, an effort by groups and activists supporting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel to discredit it and label it an “apartheid state,” kicked off Monday in many cities and college campuses worldwide.

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This year some rock stars are jumpin on the bandwagon too:

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Throws Support Behind Israel Boycott

Published March 06, 2011

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Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/135904/#ixzz1GRYrDszC

[doodle]

This is a brand a new tactic, terrorists seem to be using dangerous dance moves with arabic music to attack Israel now:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYS2...el_video_title

[heavenlyboy34]

I don't approve of their making a mess of the store, but nice of them to oppose the Israeli regime.

[doodle]

Yea making a store mess was not kosher.

This video could make a case for Obama impeachment:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLEvi...eature=related

[furface]

Why don't we have "Stop Obsessing About the Middle East Week."

You think Americans can handle that? We might realize how much our lives suck and start our own government ousting revolution.

[amy31416]

Why don't we have "Stop Obsessing About the Middle East Week."

You think Americans can handle that? We might realize how much our lives suck and start our own government ousting revolution.

Most Americans don't give a rat's ass about the Middle East and haven't for years, if they ever have. You've got it made in the US if folks who know stuff, and are offended by, our disgusting foreign policy bothers you.

[doodle]

Many Americans are starting to pay more attention to our mideast, foreign policy lately with increasing loss of liberties and economic costs of that policy.

James Cross / March 13th 2011
BBC poll shows Western public opinion hardening against Israel

Only 14% of the British have a positive view of Israel, with 66% having a negative opinion, according to an international survey; and the number expressing negative views of Israel rose by 16% from the previous year. This increasingly unfavourable perception of the zionist state was shown also in the other Western countries included in the survey, even in the USA.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/h...untry_poll.pdf


Growing signs of Israeli occupation end, Palestinian State recognition by Sept 11

Some pundits had predicted in opinion pieces after 9/11 that Israeli occupation was going to end in few years time, it seemed too incredible a prediction then. There are growing signs now that a free Palestinian state would be in place and recognized by nations of the world before Sept 2011 , making it a tragic landmark as that month would mark 10th anniversary of a tragic time in history:




PA: 150 states to recognize Palestine by Sept.

Ten more states to recognize Palestine within month, 150 by September, PA says

Elior Levy
Published: 03.03.11

Full report

Norway may recognize Palestinian state if peace process remains stalled
Mar 3, 2011 ... Norway may recognize Palestinian state if peace process remains stalled.

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Europe threatens to recognise Palestinian state

Europe's foreign ministers have threatened to recognise an independent Palestinian state to punish Israeli refusal to halt "illegal" Jewish settlements.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ian-state.html

Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay recognize Palestinian state

(AFP) – Dec 6, 2010

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina and Uruguay said Monday they were joining Brazil in recognizing an independent Palestinian state, earning praise from Palestinian officials but an immediate sharp rebuke from Israel.


Medvedev reaffirms Soviet recognition of Palestine

Elior Levy
Latest Update: 01.18.11

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...N8S1xV6P9AwVew



Israelis have been taking some mild steps to pull back some of the extremists encroaching on occupied land but lilkely scenario is that by Sept 2011 if much of the world has recognized free Palestinian State, Palestinians will declare independence with blessing of most of the world and US will be forced to recognize. What Israel will do remains to be seen but they don't have any choice but to face reality. Even some radical Israeli occupation supporters are getting scared with increasing propspects of one state solution. More and more reports of arab-jewish dating are coming as jewish settlers with their families move deeper into occupied Arab territories with fast growing population of young arab men. If Jewish racial identity can't be preserved, much of remaining foreign lobbies support for occupation would collapse. After 9/11, stream of new Russian jewish immigrants to settlements came to almost a complete halt. With new demographic challange and increased racial mixing opportunities in settlements ( LINK ) , the scary thought of a mixed society and a Palestinian arab muslim or christian getting elected as top leader of Israel becomes a buzz kill for many of the zealots supporting open-ended occupation. Election of even someone like Barak Hussein Obama with an arab muslim father would mean collapse of Israel as the promised land that many foreign lobbies support.

Quick google news search shows this news of the day:

01.03.11
Settlers attack West Bank villages following outpost demolitions
Police and Palestinians say settlers threw petrol bomb into a house, damaged several cars in West Bank.
By The Associated Press and Reuters

Police carry away a settler during clashes at entrance to Gilad Farm outpost in West Bank, 2009.
Photo by: AFP
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Obama is soft on settlers compared to Bush perhaps due to funding of his campaign by Israel lobbies, Bush had exerted much more pressure on then Israeli PM who reportedly went into comma after Gaza settler "outpost" removals.



Violence flares as Israel begins withdrawal
Neve Dekalim, Gaza
August 16, 2005
Israel is bracing for one of the biggest political showdowns in its short history tomorrow, when troops and police are due to begin evicting thousands of far-right Jewish fundamentalists from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Growing Fear of One Binational State Solution with no segregation between races

Besides increased US/European pressure on Israel for ending occupation of arab lands post 9/11, another driving factor for more Israelis to support creation of a segregated Palestinian State is the realization that keeping racial segregation as well as the settlements is becoming an impossible task. New settlements are leading to increased narriages and dating activities between arab men and daughters, sisters of jewish settlers. This trend threatens to make Israel an arab majority state with no segregation between the races iin a defacto one state solution if Israel does not remove settlements and end occupation soon.

Vigilantes Patrol For Jewish Women Dating Arab Men

Throughout Israel, young Jewish men are forming vigilante groups to end interracial relationships between Arab men and Jewish women, which are occurring with increased frequency as Jewish settlements dig deeper into Arab territory. The vigilantes say Arabs lure Jewish women with money and "bad boy" personalities.
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Rebbetzins: Women, stay away from Arab men
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Twenty-seven rabbis' wives signed a letter distributed by the Lehava organization calling upon Jewish women not to date Arab men, not to work in places where Arabs are employed and not to volunteer for national service with them.
RELATED:
Poll: 48% of Israeli Jews oppose rabbis' rent edict
Forty-four percent of the respondents support the idea, while 48% are opposed.
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02.03.11
Keep Israel Jewish, freeze settlements
The preservation of the Jewish character of Israel demands a complete freeze on all the settlements in the territories, until the close of negotiations on their fate.

Netanyahu: Binational state would be disastrous for Israel

Netanyahu has warned in recent days during closed meetings that “a binational state would be disastrous for Israel,” and therefore it is necessary to undertake a political move that will remove this threat.
In recent weeks the prime minister has come under intense international pressure over Israel’s policies. Europe’s unequivocal stance against Israel at the Security Council vote on the issue of the settlements, the rebuke that accompanied the U.S. veto, and the unpleasant telephone exchange with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week reportedly shook Netanyahu.

Moreover, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations are working together to push through an unprecedented agreement during the Quartet’s meeting in Paris in a week. According to the draft of the agreement that is being passed between the parties, the Quartet will declare that a Palestinian state will be established on the basis of the 1967 borders, with some land swaps.

In some of the drafts East Jerusalem is mentioned as the capital of the Palestinian state.

In private talks recently, Netanyahu has reportedly begun discussing the growing threat of a binational state.

“This trend will intensify and become stronger,” Netanyahu told his advisers. “However there are those in Israel who think that one state is a good idea. I think it is a disaster.”
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[doodle]

It's working :

Danish Security Group G4S drops West Bank services after criticism

By The Associated Press (CP) – 3 days ago

http://www.google.com/hostednews/can...?docId=6217047