Israel launches 'price tag' attack par excellence in response to EU settlement directive

[oberliner]

Israel’s defense minister launched a massive ‘price tag’ attack last week. In response to an EU directive that will help ensure European funding does not benefit Israeli settlements, Moshe Ya’alon ordered a halt to cooperation with European humanitarian efforts benefiting Palestinians in Israeli-controlled areas of the West Bank.

“We are freezing the relationship on everything,” an Israeli official told The Guardian. “We did this as soon as we heard [about the directive]. We can’t act like nothing happened.”

Price tag attacks are generally perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property in response to Israeli government moves against settlements. In other words, they attack an uninvolved third party in retaliation for legally sanctioned harm done to them.

Ya’alon’s order is no different. For all intents and purposes, it is a price tag attack.

http://972mag.com/israel-launches-price-tag-attack-par-excellence-in-response-to-eu/76465/

[Purveyor]

1. "Apartheid on parade", indeed. eom

[oberliner]

2. Are you a commenter on that site as well?

If so, would you share what name you use there?

[Purveyor]

3. No but I would consider the offer if they were interested. eom

[oberliner]

4. I am pretty sure anyone is allowed to post comments

You don't need to get an offer or anything like that; I think you can just join in.

[Purveyor]

5. Never have. I concentrate my exposure greater audiences. eom

[oberliner]

6. How many people do you think you are reaching here?

The I/P forum seems to house a fairly small community of readers.

[Purveyor]

7. Hard to meter but more and effective, I surmise, than you... 'cheers'. eom

[oberliner]

11. Definitely agree with that

But I didn't identify reaching large numbers of people as a goal of mine. I'll leave that to folks like you and your mirror images among the "hasbarados".

As for me, I prefer to exchange ideas and share information (and correct misinformation) with the regulars and anyone who may drop in. Makes for interesting conversation and forces me to challenge my own ideas on the topic.

[oberliner]

14. Why did you feel the need to post this article again?

When clearly, you read (and responded to) this one.

That confuses me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113445274

[Purveyor]

15. My mistake and so I deleted it. Happy now? eom

[oberliner]

16. I don't think it was a mistake

I think it was a symptom of a larger issue.

[azurnoir]

8. so Israel's answer is to punish Palestinians for the EU's actions concerning the settlements

I'm sure that will have the same effect as the of bombing Gaza on the eve of the UN vote last November did

[Scootaloo]

9. If you love 927mag so much, why don't you marry it?!

Sorry! Figured I'd get that in before Oberl... hey, wait a minute!

Yeah, this is pretty much what figured when I was reading the article posted by Shira earlier. Ya'lon's reasoning is so mangled, the logic so like a Gordian knot, that I had trouble figuring out just how to come at it.

This is my exact reaction after reading it a second time

[oberliner]

10. As long as the writer isn't Larry Derfner or Yossi Gurvitz

The rest of them are OK - though the guy who was excited about being on an internet list is kind of strange too.

I posted another article from there as well a few days ago but it sank without comment unfortunately.

[Scootaloo]

12. Ami Kaufman is a satirist

He was mocking the list and the people who created it. What I found strange was that he gave you what amounts to a hit list of "race traitor" Jews, compiled and published by a shitbag group like masada, rife with recommendations like "someone should pay his mother a visit" on the entries, and your only reaction was to be very bitchy about the presence of 927mag on your internet.

baby steps, I guess.

[oberliner]

13. No he isn't

He has never written a satire in his life. He is just a guy who posts stuff he thinks is funny and/or interesting on the internet, like you. He also seems to like pointing out negative things about Israel, also like you.

What is funny is that his mockery of the list was deemed worthy of a post here. DU I/P used to be limited to actual articles about actual things that were actually happening in the region. I know that has long since gone out the window (predating your joining us here), but it's a shame.