Ari Lesser's Powerful music video begs the question:
"Why is there such a strong call to Boycott Israel by various college organizations and professors when the majority of countries around the world are committing verifiable atrocities that are all but ignored?"
MY ANSWER:
Boycotts are all about hurting and disadvantaging ourselves or, at least, inconveniencing ourselves to bring about a wider good - peace with justice for Israel and Palestine.
Since 1948, Israel has been strongly supported and funded by the Christian West, especially by that devout nation, the USA. Any American president, even Obama would never dream of even slightly reducing its gifts and/or sales of every kind of armaments to Israel - as has happened with Obama's announcement on Thursday over Egypt getting a small reduction in its arms from the US because of the Egyptian military overthrowing a fairly elected Muslim government. Egypt remains a major ally of the West and is holding to its peace treaty with Israel.
A very small, indeed a tiny minority of people in the West remain upset that after 65 years there is still no justice, still no land, still no State for the Palestinians to bring peace with justice, and thus security, for Israel, also. These may be the very same people who boycotted South Africa until there was justice for the majority blacks whose descendants had been there for some years before the dominant, white settlers arrived. Those few who are boycotting Israel may be the same people who disapproved of the discrimination of the minority population by the Protestant, Loyalist, Unionist people in Northern Ireland. Things are now very much better for the Catholic, nationalist, republican minority. S Africa sorted; N Ireland sorted; what about Israel/Palestine?
Atrocities around the world are committed by those in absolute power in government. Especially, I am afraid to say, by the USA/NATO since 1945. Our side has killed millions in our many wars fighting Communism around the world and, now, fighting Islamist extremists who have learnt from the West's very bad example of violence throughout the last century and now this, too. Even the most committed, Bible believing Christians have been very happy to serve in the armed forces or to work in careers that involve manufacturing armaments to kill Communists and Islamists. Israel condemns boycotts. However, boycotts are non-violent actions by so few people, it seems, that no-one is affected in Israel. Non-violent boycotts are very different from the violence of Israel and the West against people who happened to be born into a country with a Communist government or born on holy Muslim soil or were born in Judea and Samaria as Palestinians. This is also called the West Bank that the UN insist Israel should not be allowing settlers to build homes in. But, of course, Israel takes no notice of the UN and all its resolutions over the decades.
Atrocities are committed daily by Barak Obama and David Cameron with their escalating drone attacks on Muslim militants. No fair trial. No judge and jury. No proportionate sentence if the defendant is found guilty. Oh no. Just a death dealing missile from out of the air. Our side needs no suicide bombers thanks to digital killing from Kansas or England that, thank the Lord, keep our soldiers out of harms way.
Secondly:
"Why is Israel under the magnifying glass when it is one tiny state (the size of New Jersey) surrounded by 22 Muslim Middle East countries that commit endless crimes of murder and torture of their own women and children in the name of religion?"
Most of you just want to do the right thing. The right thing requires thinking for yourself.
It's time to do your own digging.
(Do not use Wikipedia. Their entries can be updated by just about anyone!)
Here Is Israel!
Here O Israel, MY ANSWER:
Israel's biggest problem is being a modern, affluent Western country in the heart of the Arab Middle East. Just like its greatest friend and ally, the USA, its people are generous and hospitable. However, it is the unofficial 52nd state of the USA. The UK is the 51st state. This is Israel's undoing and it is ours, too. Being so closely identified with the West and the USA is a terrible stigma. It is a burden that could begin to be shed. It is like having the mark of the beast, in the eyes of some Arabs. This is because of the West's violent and dominating ways in, first some Communist countries and, now in some Muslim lands. For some Arabs, very regrettably, the US is seen as "the great Satan" - simply because of its interfering, we know best for you, we must have what we want, behaviour in the Middle East.
As someone who loves Israel, I would implore its people and government to compromise, to give up land for peace with justice. I would beseech them to turn their enemies that surround them into friends for life. That is real peace and security. Now, that IS being a truly successful country. "Love your God and love your neighbour, O Israel"
" 'Not by might, nor by power but by my spirit', says the Lord."
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