Live Action Role Protesting
Whatever you’re doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn’t think so.
Whatever you’re doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn’t think so.
An odd thing indeed. Several odd things combined. Firstly, The New York Times printing an op-ed by Muammar Qaddafi? Qaddafi proposing a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine Conundrum? Entitled simply The One State Solution, Qaddafi very briefly lists the legitimate grievances of both the Jewish and Palestinian peoples, points out that they’ve got on pretty [...]
Anyone wondering what Noam Chomsky thinks of all this Gaza bizzo can read his take here: Exterminate the Brutes. It is long. So very long. To save you, the reader, time, I used a website called Great Summary to reduce the whole thing to five sentences. Here they are:
So it happens again. The situation in Israel-Palestine dominates my thoughts, just as it dominates news media and political arguments online. That last one shouldn’t be a surprise – the internet is an ideological battleground, and all kinds of people realise it. Fascinating how quickly a tool for massive dissemination of information has become equally [...]
It’s unfortunate for the Palestinian-rights movement that some arguments leveled at Israel are fallacious at best and idiotic or racist at worst. As with so many things, when putting forward any statement on the matter, I find my efforts are nine-tenths explaining what I’m not saying, with little time left for what I am saying. [...]