Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Settlements are not the great obstacle to Mid-East peace [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Basically, CAMERA's stock-in-trade is in simply repeating the same(generally outdated and mostly discredited)arguments over and over again in large magazine and newspaper ads. CAMERA basically argues that the entire conflict is due solely to Arab antisemitism, that Palestinians have no real grievances against the israeli government and the IDF, and that the everybody should focus solely on telling the Arabs and the Palestinian to stop being angry for no reason(IIRC, it took quite a while for CAMERA to admit that Palestinians actually had a distinctive national identity at all...they spent years characterizing them as nothing more than the agents of the so-called "unrelenting Arab campaign" to destroy Israel. FLAME runs almos identical ads using the same talking points.
These two organizations in my view, have been about nothing but deflection and denial. They has never had anything constructive or useful to say about the I/P situation.
My apologies about the confusion I caused by writing the names of the groups as "CAMERA/FLAME". I did that because I've seen the ads that both organizations run, and was trying to illustrate the point that there seems to be little real difference or division of purpose between them. I could have found a clearer way to illustrate that point.
And here's FLAME arguing...and acting as if it could possibly be morally defensible to argue for...doing NOTHING at all to change the status quo...in perpetuating Palestinian misery indefinitely(and, at the same time, acting as if could be possible for Palestinians to have prosperity WITHOUT the Occupation ending or even being humanized in any way)
http://factsandlogic.org/ad_134.html