…Northern Ireland! It doesn’t belong in your list.

Anyone who is not Native American (that’s Europeans, Africans, Asians), living in North America, are occupiers.

If you are not a Native American, when will you be ending your occupation and leaving North America?

Which country will you emmigrate to?

When did you last endure the horrors of long security checkpoints at an airport, infact at airports all over the world, checkpoints to filter out islamofascist hijackers such as those who have been celebrated by the Finsbury Park mosque in London, as “The Magnificent 19″ of 9/11?

Paul larudee is a good friend of mine and, for the record, of many of my progressive Jewish friends here in the Bay Area. I’m sure they would be happy to step forward in support of Paul if that would add some light to the subject, although I suspect you wouldn’t be open to what they have to say anyway.

Paul’s agenda with regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is simply to see that all parties abide by international and humanitarian law, as embodied in documents such as the UN Charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which both Israel and the US are signatories. If you had ever troubled yourself to actually visit the Occupied Territories and experienced the oppression, even horrors, of living under occupation for over 3 generations, you might actually experience a transformation, much like that of Anna Balzer. Anna, as you probably know, was once an unabashed Zionist who decided to debunk all of what she had heard of the oppression of Palestinians by visiting the Territories herself and exposing all these anti-Semitic ‘lies’. Lo and behold, she found them to be true ! Now she travels the country as a tireless champion for justice and security for both peoples, often enduring angry, and even threatening, outcries from those lacking the wisdom and courage to seek the truth about the conflict.

So, what about you, Aussie Dave ? Are you willing to actually study the recorded history of the conflict, even if it conflicts with narrative to which you were most likely exposed from childhood ? Are you willing to listen to the voices of those living under occupation, even if it might seriously challenge your belief system ? Do you have the wisdom and courage to do so, it will be difficult at first for you. But, in the end, you will be free to see and speak the truth.

And, most importantly for me, you will learn to appreciate, rather than demonize, good people like Paul Larudee.

Very interesting, especially considering your erroneous assumption that I was taught to believe in a certain way.

Some of us think about things, Mr Anon. Try it sometime.

because that’s what you were taught…

“then denying them access to the Occupied Territories because of their nonviolent activities”

Nonviolent activities? Like attacking soldiers, which is why another of those *@&^s is currently in an Israeli prison? I’ll bet this guy was planning to whack some of our brave men with his piano-tuning tools before helping a few terrorists strap on their bomb belts.

Sorry to rant on and on, but these people make me sick. So many worthy causes in this world, so many people who deserve help, and these clueless idiots choose to aid and abet terrorists.