Comments on: Time for the Palestinians to call Israel’s bluff? http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/07/time-for-the-palestinians-to-call-israel%e2%80%99s-bluff/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/07/time-for-the-palestinians-to-call-israel%e2%80%99s-bluff/#comment-1480 James Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:33:38 +0000 http://www.intifada-palestine.com/?p=18608#comment-1480 You are absolutely right on all counts. The most important point you raised was the right of return, it is not a govenment right but an individuals right and matter how much time passes or who dies and lives, it is eternal. You are absolutely right on all counts.

The most important point you raised was the right of return, it is not a govenment right but an individuals right and matter how much time passes or who dies and lives, it is eternal.

]]> By: Thomas Swenson http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/07/time-for-the-palestinians-to-call-israel%e2%80%99s-bluff/#comment-1479 Thomas Swenson Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:40:16 +0000 http://www.intifada-palestine.com/?p=18608#comment-1479 First of all, the right of return is an individual right. No government or group can abrogate each Palestinian individual's right to return to his home. As a practical matter: Calling the Zionist's bluff would achieve nothing. People support the criminal-robber Zionist state for one of two reasons: (1) they are cynical and have no respect for justice or fairness or law; or (2) they recognize the truth about Palestine, but do not have the moral courage to act according to their conscience. Those in the first group obviously cannot be influenced by calling a bluff. Those in the second group also cannot be influenced -- the Zionists have given them so many excuses (i.e., criminal, brutally immoral conduct) over the past 60 years to disown the interloper-state and disavow their allegiance to it that if they had any sense of shame or self-respect, they would have acted long ago. Stronger measures are needed. The boycott movement is a good idea. If Abbas and Fatah were not lackeys (along with Egypt's Mubarak) of the US, they would support the internal and external resistance and might achieve something, instead of dancing to the US-Zionist music. First of all, the right of return is an individual right. No government or group can abrogate each Palestinian individual’s right to return to his home.

As a practical matter:
Calling the Zionist’s bluff would achieve nothing. People support the criminal-robber Zionist state for one of two reasons: (1) they are cynical and have no respect for justice or fairness or law; or (2) they recognize the truth about Palestine, but do not have the moral courage to act according to their conscience. Those in the first group obviously cannot be influenced by calling a bluff. Those in the second group also cannot be influenced — the Zionists have given them so many excuses (i.e., criminal, brutally immoral conduct) over the past 60 years to disown the interloper-state and disavow their allegiance to it that if they had any sense of shame or self-respect, they would have acted long ago. Stronger measures are needed. The boycott movement is a good idea. If Abbas and Fatah were not lackeys (along with Egypt’s Mubarak) of the US, they would support the internal and external resistance and might achieve something, instead of dancing to the US-Zionist music.

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