Israel/Palestine

shenmue

(38,537 posts) Wed Sep 14, 2016, 01:04 AM Sep 2016

Amos Oz: Denying Israel's existence 'anti-Semitic'

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37349248

Video at link.

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Amos Oz: Denying Israel's existence 'anti-Semitic' (Original Post) shenmue Sep 2016 OP

I'm inclined to agree with Oz. n/t Little Tich Sep 2016 #1

So you agree that advocating Israel's destruction is antisemitic? shira Sep 2016 #2

Calling for the destruction of Israel is almost always anti-Semitic. Little Tich Sep 2016 #3

And that's exactly what Phil Weiss & Omar Barghouti do.... shira Sep 2016 #4

Abbas and Barghouti of BDS admit it. Allowing full RoR means the end of Israel... shira Sep 2016 #5

It seems as if we have different definitions of what constitutes calling for the destruction of Little Tich Sep 2016 #6

Abbas & Barghouti are at least honest enough to admit what Oz is arguing. n/t shira Sep 2016 #7

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

1. I'm inclined to agree with Oz. n/t

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Wed Sep 14, 2016, 01:12 AM

Sep 2016

shira

(30,109 posts)

2. So you agree that advocating Israel's destruction is antisemitic?

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 14, 2016, 05:22 AM

Sep 2016

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"Saying that Israel should cease to exist, or should not have come into being, this is crossing the line."

Bingo.

Proving conclusively BDS is antisemitic.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

3. Calling for the destruction of Israel is almost always anti-Semitic.

Reply to shira (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 14, 2016, 06:23 AM

Sep 2016

There are probably exceptions, but I can't think of any right now. But arguing that BDS is calling for the destruction of Israel is a real stretch.

shira

(30,109 posts)

4. And that's exactly what Phil Weiss & Omar Barghouti do....

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 14, 2016, 06:46 AM

Sep 2016

It's what anyone who advocates full right-of-return is doing. They're calling for Israel's destruction.

Mahmoud Abbas knows this.

Abbas Deemed It 'Illogical' for Israel to Absorb 5 Million Refugees, Palestine Papers Show
"On numbers of refugees, it is illogical to ask Israel to take 5 million, or indeed 1 million," Abbas said, according to the details of the Palestine papers. "That would mean the end of Israel."

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/abbas-deemed-it-illogical-for-israel-to-absorb-5-million-refugees-palestine-papers-show-1.338981

The founder of BDS, Omar Barghouti knows this.

“I do not buy into the two state solution. It is not just pragmatically impossible, it was never a moral solution. The first issue would be the right of return, but if the refugees were to return you cannot have a two state solution like one Palestinian commentator remarked. You will have a Palestinian State next to a Palestinian State, rather than a Palestinian State next to Israel.”

Omar Barghouti, Ottawa University, March 4, 2009

shira

(30,109 posts)

5. Abbas and Barghouti of BDS admit it. Allowing full RoR means the end of Israel...

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 15, 2016, 04:17 PM

Sep 2016

They can put lipstick on it and call it equal rights with Jews to live in Israel (even though Palestinians could live in Gaza/WB) but they admit it would destroy Israel.

Why can't you?

Be honest.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

6. It seems as if we have different definitions of what constitutes calling for the destruction of

Reply to shira (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 15, 2016, 08:28 PM

Sep 2016

Israel.

I'll go with Oz on this one.

shira

(30,109 posts)

7. Abbas & Barghouti are at least honest enough to admit what Oz is arguing. n/t

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #6)

Thu Sep 15, 2016, 09:30 PM

Sep 2016

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