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Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience
- kingkilr 15y agoTechcrunch is getting into the social commentary business?
- wisty 15y agoOr the linkbait business.
- andrewfelix 15y agoAnyone else notice you can't comment on the article?
- DeusExMachina 15y agoYou can. If you scroll down and wait a little bit for it to load you will see the previous comments (11 at the moment) and will have the usual way of commenting through Facebook.
- andrewfelix 15y agoYeh my bad, my browser was being a dick.
- pokoleo 15y agoIt's a funny juxtaposition with Syria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_2011_Syrian_uprising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_...
- yuvadam 15y agoIt's a funny juxtaposition with the rest of the world. One has to be extremely ignorant to fail to comprehend that Madrid, Cairo, New York, Tripoli, Tel Aviv, Damascus, Athens and London are all part of the same story.
- guelo 15y agoThey're mad about prices of their rents but strangely they don't care about the price of the settlements. Or the injustice of them.
- yuvadam 15y agoThe sole reason that the current protests are a consensus right now is because the protest leaders have framed this as a nationwide, non-political, issue. Rest assured that the majority of the protestors are much aware of the moral and economic price of the settlements and would rather see them taken apart. Current estimates put the total investment in settlements in the West Bank and Gaza over the years at more than $50B. Trust that the general Israeli population would very much want to see those amounts of money invested in health, welfare, transportation and education within the '67 lines. Stating that fact upfront would have marked the protests as "yet another leftist campaign".
- JohnsonB 15y agoTake the settlements apart? You do realize that amounts to ethnic cleansing, correct? Neither the majority of the Israeli population nor the protesters believe this is a good idea.
- yuvadam 15y agoI'm not sure where you get your facts from, but the truth is that a) the majority of the Israeli population supports withdrawl from the West Bank and b) the settlements were built on what is by every consensus the area that should one day be the Palestinian State. As an Israeli I refuse to control another people. I think it is immoral and wrong. And yes, the settlements are wrong, and they continue to corrupt us and our morals, day by day.
- shmulkey18 15y agoIf it were every consensus I find it hard to believe that they would be built. And removing the only Jews from an area is sort of the definition of ethnic cleansing.
- andrewfelix 15y agoIt's a (not so)funny juxtaposition with Gaza. http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/gazaoneyearon/2009/12/20091230113310410824.html http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/gazaoneyearon/2009/12/200...
- marcia2776 15y agoyou didn't read the article!!! the writer was joking!!! what he really said was: israel is the only example in the ME FOR FREEDOM OF SPEACH AND TO THE FACT THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS, GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THEIR PEOPLE!!!
- systems 15y agowhat's happening in syria is a revolution (attempt)against a totalitarian regime what's happening in israel are protests not remotely comparable
- emilsedgh 15y agoRevolutions happen when people are not allowed to protest.
- marcia2776 15y agothis is how a protest looks like in israel>>> zero violence but with much deordorant enjoy yourself:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYv7KZMz6o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYv7KZMz6o&feature=relat...
- marcia2776 15y agoread the full artcle : http://t.co/L1sIhak http://t.co/L1sIhak
- marcia2776 15y agomore pictures from the israeli protests: jews& arabs were protesting together and no one got shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTJgx2cePE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTJgx2cePE
- Confusion 15y agoThis is badly written. The first paragraph of the article suggests the civil disobedience in Israel is far from classy, but in fact that first paragraph describes London and is meant to be juxtaposed to the next paragraphs that describe the protests in Israel. Some commenters already interpreted it wrongly.
- StavrosK 15y agoThat first paragraph and next sentence make absolutely zero sense. "Things have happened, except the opposite." What the hell does that mean?
- marcia2776 15y agomore pictures from the israeli demonstration: (slomo artzi singing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRp02b8H2_o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRp02b8H2_o&feature=relat... protest in israel= love + live music
- marcia2776 15y agoisraelis don't want to overthrow the government but to make a real social change which help socialy all israel's citizens: men and women, arabs and jews, seculars and religous.... this is what social justice is all about!!!!
- marcia2776 15y agoand in other news just 1 hours after the demonstrations in south israel ended, 2 rockets from Gaza exploded on the Israeli city of Ashkelon!!! THE PALESTINIAN TERROR CONTINUES AS USUAL...
- marcia2776 15y agomore interesting pictures you might like to see and tweet to your friends (this criminal israel....): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps9UEQO6tpU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps9UEQO6tpU (abbas' cleric) http://www.youtube.com/watch http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=iyegOJ4dlmw&playnext=1&list=PL0FA9286BCE61B1FB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNo7vTOAWN4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNo7vTOAWN4&feature=relat...
- molecule 15y agoArrington-AOL must be preparing to launch TechCrunch-Israel.