Police raid Berlin conference as repression of Palestine activism escalates in Germany
Abir Koptymondoweiss.net
Police raid Berlin conference as repression of Palestine activism escalates in Germany
From college campuses to political rallies, there are hundreds of do-gooders protesting against Israel, but where are the protests against Hamas, a group that is the real-life embodiment of exactly what they are protesting?
PREDICTABLY, MUCH OF THE WORLD did not applaud. Condemnations poured in from around the globe. Argentinean officials, who unabashedly gave Nazis refuge, claimed that Israel’s action was “typical of the methods used by a regime completely and universally condemned.”
While in Israel there were voices who advocated relinquishing lands so that the two people might live side by side, the PLO was hardly open to compromise. Its attitude to Zionism was explicit in its charter: Zionism is a colonialist movement in its inception, aggressive and expansionist in its goals, racist and segregationist in its configurations
... See morecalled on the Palestinians to investigate Hamas abuses. This, for Israelis, was tantamount to asking al-Qaeda to investigate 9/11.