Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Zakaria: What the Palestinians should do. [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The resources are lacking. The PA is cash-strapped and the West bank isn't exactly a shining beacon of wealth ("better-off than Syria" doesn't actually mean good, you know.)
Even were this not the case, the idea of the government funding such groups brings up some very obvious issues of conflict-of-interest. Shira, how much stock would you, personally, put in the stance of a peace organization that is funded by what you are in this post calling a "totalitarian" government? If I know you - and trust me, I certainly do - you'd be howling that they're just mouthpieces and puppets. And you'd actually have a fair argument on that point, since again, government funding creates conflicts of interest.
Then again you also have denounced every NGO in existence as being nothing but fronts for antisemitism anyway. So in the end you're denouncing the Palestinians for not having something that you would denounce them for having. it seems illogical until one remembers that you're basically just out here to hate Palestinians.
To do as you and Pelsar and Shaktimaan are struggling to do, to cast this lack as some sort of deformity of the Palestinian people as a whole, to showcase the mas some sort of peace-hating mob... simply reeks of racist self-justification. it's like the argument often thrown out against African-Americans, that the problems in many black communities are inescapable due to the blackness of the inhaitens, therefore black people are somehow different, worse people, and so bias against them is justified.
Nice picture. Is it me, or is the guy on the far left in the pink shirt George Lucas?