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shira

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8. Boycotting has been an utter failure. The point is that BDS incites hatred...
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 06:50 PM
Jul 2016

...and violence against Jews. That's the issue, not boycotts. It's about rising attacks on Jews worldwide and making life unsafe for the world's Jews. Like the OP title states, it's an immoral threat to peace. There's nothing that BDS advocates that will lead to peace. In fact, BDS recommendations would lead to more war and conflict, more bloodshed.

Show me evidence the boycotts are working. Show me how they've significantly impacted Israel. I'm arguing they haven't done shit and since the BDS movement began, Israel is stronger in every respect now than they were then. Given that fact, the reason for resistance against BDS is as I just wrote above. It isn't about boycotts.

I challenged you to give a reason WHY the Palestinians have rejected every peace offer - in particular the 1947 partition plan. You want to blame Israel 100% as though it's Israel holding up progress. I just want you to acknowledge the reason the conflict persists and it goes back to decades before 1948 with Palestinian attacks on Jews. They want Israel ended, all Jews gone or dead. THAT is the conflict.

That you can't show any evidence otherwise goes to show how immoral BDS is. And THAT is what the OP is about. It's common knowledge that BDS'ers don't give a crap about terror attacks on Jews. They support "resistance" and the "freedom fighters" who slash 13 year old girls in their beds at night. I never see BDS'ers horrified or bothered much by that. Ever. All I see are excuses.

That's what the OP is about.

Let's not pretend it's about being against mere criticism or that Israel benefits from American aid with nothing in return for the USA. All aid to Israel goes back to the USA as Israel is required to buy US military products with that money, which translates to jobs. Personally, I'm against US aid to Israel as I believe that limits the Israeli economy in which they can make what they buy from America AND export it to other countries, which they cannot do right now. But beyond that, if Israel was gone tomorrow the US would have to send 10's of thousands of troops and several aircraft carriers into that region - meaning BILLIONS of dollars a year and American lives lost. Is that what you really want?

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