Another Ricky’s Boycott Protest on Montague St.

As is typical in these type of discusions, the supposed “Anti-Zionists” parrot that collection of myths, fabrications, presumptions and tall tales called the “Palestinian narrative”, rather than actuial history. Among these presumptions is the idea that “Palestinian” is an ethnicity or tribal designation, when in fact it is an Arab poltical sub-designation assigned to the Arabs that had left pre-state Israel only in1964 by the Arab League. Actually, the ancestors of the vast majority of today’s self-identified Palestinians were economic migrants, attracted by the economic boom sparked by the early Zionists. What the Jordanians re-named “the West Bank” when they illegally invaded and annexed it in 1948, was historically “Judea and Samaria”, not “Palestine.” In fact, many of the Jewish “settlements” are on land that was purchased and farmed decades before Israel was a state, such as the Gush Etzion bloc rather than the usually parrotted myth of “stolen Palestinian land.”

“Anti-Zionism” is a political stance that opposes any political expression by the Jewish people, but only the Jewish people,of all the peoples of the world, their natural right of national self determination. Often, “Anti-Zionism” approach the natural rights of the Jewish people by denying the Jewish people their “people hood”, that is to say, denying the distinct nature of the Jewish peoples’ culture, languages, history etc. In essence, “Anti-Zionism” is distinguishable from simple Jew Hating racism or “anti-Semitism” in that rather being opposed to the Jewish people, “Anti-Zionism” opposes any assertion of political rights or political activity by Jewish people. It is a slight difference. In would ask the “Anti-Zionists” that are posting here, “if your political opinions are based on “non-facts”, then what are those opinions worth?” And, if “Anti-Zionism” requires lying about Jews and Israel, then why?

Not all, not even most Palestinians are native to the land of Israel. Many are recent immigrants who arrived during Ottoman times or later. You can tell by looking at common Palestinian surnames

al-Masri – the Egyptian
al-Mughrabi – the Moroccan
al-Turki – the Turk
al-Hindi – the Indian
al-Hourani – the Syrian
al-Kurdi – the Kurd
al-Djazair – the Algerian
al-Yamani – the Yemeni
al-Afghani – the Afghan

Carl Bruce, I’m not clear on how I was proved wrong, but at least I shamed you into revealing your full name. Keep your button. As this thread clearly shows, they’re too easily pushed by divisive zealots like you.

Me thinks anyone who uses the term “satanic state” is a little coo coo for cocoa puffs.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. In fact the Israeli’s democracy is the reason why the Palestinians are still there. Israel could have easily annexed the territories they occupied after they defeated Jordan and Egypt during the Six Day war launched by a group of Arab countries.

All Jewish people did was returned to their country of origin from which they were driven some two thousand years ago and later prosecuted during the rest of their history. The last major Diaspora was precipitated by the destruction of the Temple in 70 AC by Titus. WW2 and the Holocaust (yes it did happen) was a major impetus for the Jews to go back to their homeland from which they were driven from. AEB, to learn from history first you should know history.
Palestinians many of whom have come from nomadic tribes or beguines had an ample of opportunity for the past two thousand years, while the Jews were in exile, to build a prosperous country there. Israelis built a vibrant democracy in less than 50 years. Now the country greatly contributes to the entire world in so many areas of science, medicine (why do not you people boycott Israeli pharmaceutical companies that save your lives) literature, arts etc.

And by the way, Ahava is hiring Arabs and these very Palestinians that you are defending so passionately. I am not a Jew but I went to Israel and was amazed by the country they built – a true Oasis in a desert.