Boycott Israeli products
My Israeli friend Ram wrote:
What really appalls me, is the joyous reactions this "war" is received with in Israel, and the overwhelming support it gets. According to channel 10 tonight, 83% of the people support this war, though only 15% actually believe it will help. 63% support the war, but do not believe it will help stop the shelling. So what are they supporting? I think nothing but vindictiveness. I believe vindictiveness is a very bad motivation for life. It has been blinding the Palestinians for years, and it is blinding us too. so here we go again, another round of "you hit me first, so you deserve to die". Guess what? It doesn't matter who says it.The amount of bulldozers, tanks, army police combined with the joy of the perpetuators ("I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.") lead me to support the call for boycotts and sanctions for Palestine: I know it's hypocrite (and at least I'm aware of that) and I can't join just yet. But, there are some pretty easy ways to boycott Israeli products: simply don't buy anything of which the bar code starts with 729.
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war sucks. officials usually
war sucks.
officials usually suck.
people by and large suck. (although I don't believe all of the people in the 83% support suffering and death)
The conflict sucks. It will never end this way.
Boycotting is useless. If you want to boycott them for being in this mess and acting the way they do, you should also boycott American products and Dutch products and German products and and and...
To me it would be a vacuous gesture. Unfortunately it might be the only way of protest available. In that case. Boycott away. Just make sure you are, -and I know that you are- aware of the hipocracy of that protest.
Still it fucking sucks. And I don't like the idea of you so close to those fucking nutjobs. Don't die, okay?
By the way, have you seen Into the Wild?
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