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Jihad
A call to arms in support of Palestine
I ask all Arabs and Palestinian sympathizers in San Francisco who understand the suffering of the Palestinian people to blockade all Israeli installations in San Francisco. Israel, the same nation who claimed to be victims of fascist brutality during World War II are themselves fascist. I call on all Islamic nations to mobilise for a jihad against Israel
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Israel is barely a democratic state that can keep coalition governments in power for full term. They are mostly one religion, though have tolerated other religions during the past 50 years.
The Palestinian Authority and the PLO have constantly displeased the Palestinain people due to corruption. I wouldn't regard the PA and the PLO as a democratic model of government for the occupied territories of Palestine.
Most governments in the Middle East are either monarchies, dictatorships, or theocracies based on Muslim principals.
These observations do not make me want to get involved on either side of the Palestinian issue, eventhough Israeli violence is not acceptable. I do not see the Palestinian fight for freedom as a fight for democratic, or anarchistic, freedom. After their sacking of the Tomb of Joseph (and subsequent creation of a mosque on the site), Palestinians simply want to create another Muslim state without the basic freedoms I fought for in Seattle against the WTO.
Who lived in Palestine is irrelevant. Jews were there centuries before Muslims. The temple mount in Jerusalem was holy to the Jews centuries before it became holy to the Muslims. Jews and Muslims alike were conquered countless times by various empires.
If we are all agreed that corporate control of the planet should cease, then Middle Eastern countries should quit providing the crude oil for all of our SUVs. They should learn what democracy looks like by creating equality for all and not "pushing Jews to the sea". Just like the colonial slave trade: where there's demand, there's someone there to give it to you.
Palestinians are definitely underdogs in terms of weapons, but neither side is right in this argument.
What would happen if the Iraqi government let Iraqi Jews move back to their ancestrial homes?
How about if Spain offered to give all the gold back to the Jews they pushed out in the late 1490s?
What if the Catholic church compensated Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Palestine for all of their atrocities during the Crusades?
I just hope the outcome of this continued struggle will be one where the poeple win a chance to have a voice, not to just control a piece of land.