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The controversy about the campus organization UPZ and its sponsorship of ‘Breaking the Silence’ apparently isn’t over. If you don’t know by now,

Breaking the Silence … is a group of former IDF combat soldiers, many of whom continue to do reserve duty, who give personal testimony of purported human rights violations perpetrated by the IDF in Judea and Samaria.

“We try to explain to audiences on college campuses what it feels like to stand for hours at a checkpoint in the territories telling someone twice our age that he cannot go where he wants to because of a decision by some high-ranking official,” said Mikhael Manekin, administrative director of Breaking the Silence. “Or what an IDF soldier feels after breaking in to a Palestinian family’s house in the middle of the night and arresting the father while his children scream and cry.”

Manekin, 27, an IDF lieutenant who still does reserve duty in Judea and Samaria, said that he has testimony from 400 soldiers who have served in Judea and Samaria. “All of them talk of the ethical and moral dilemmas they faced while on duty.”

What nobody seems to know is that there’s a Palestinian counterpart to ‘Breaking the Silence’: a group of former terrorists militants who still murder Jews Resist the Occupation from time to time. They too struggle with the duties they are required to perform:

“You have to understand that we face difficult moral issues in our work. Think about what it must be like to drive around all day looking for a Zionist to shoot; and then, when we shoot one, he turns out to be an Arab! Arafat himself had to apologize for that one.”

“Consider how it feels, for example, to break down the door of a Jewish home and machine-gun a mother and her children in their beds — only to find that the father was away at Zionist reserve duty that night! Let me tell you, you are not the only ones with ethical concerns.”

We at FresnoZionism had no idea that the other side was as morally conflicted as we are. Therefore, I propose that we send them on a campus tour as well, so that American students can see the thoughtful, tender and poetic nature of the Palestinian Freedom Fighters for themselves.

Technorati Tags: morality, occupation, terrorism

Just Google ‘Israel Genocide’ and you will find literally thousands of references to the Israeli ‘genocide’ against the Palestinians. But here’s an example of the reality:

IDF soldiers seriously wounded the wife of a wanted Palestinian on Thursday during a raid on his home in a Nablus refugee camp.

The woman was struck by the front door as the soldiers, members of the elite Duvdevan unit, burst through it.

She was evacuated to an Israeli hospital by an IDF helicopter.

The army said Nasr Jawabra, the Palestinian suspect, was a senior al-Quds Brigades [part of the Islamic Jihad organization] commander who in the past was involved in terror attacks and suicide bombings against Israel. — YNet

Islamic Jihad took ‘credit’ for the suicide bombing in Eilat on Monday in which three people were killed.

A helicopter evacuation is expensive and dangerous. Is this the action of a genocidal army? What would the Turks have done in 1915? What would Hitler have done? A Rwandan Hutu?

Indeed, what did the Islamic Jihad do?

Technorati Tags: IDF, genocide, Islamic Jihad

A committee of British MPs has criticised the decision by the international community to boycott Hamas after it won elections last year.The Commons International Development Committee said the boycott could set back the Middle East peace process and lead to more violence. — BBC

The Western powers have demanded that they will only support Hamas financially when they agree to renounce violence, recognize Israel, and accept existing agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.

This is unreasonable? Should the US and Europe pay the salaries of Hamas militias and buy them weapons when they insist that they have a right to throw out the peace process (such as it is) and go back to trying to destroy Israel?

Who is “setting back the peace process” here?

What if the US Government sent money to the Irish Republican Army to buy explosives with?

Technorati Tags: Hamas, Israel

By Vic Rosenthal

Several organizations are sponsoring a boycott of the Israel Philharmonic orchestra, and will be picketing performances in Los Angeles in February. This is in the framework of a boycott of all Israeli products, services, artists, academics, athletes, etc.

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