The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117493   Message #2622922
Posted By: CarolC
01-May-09 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
Hardly. If Israel and the other Western countries really gave a shit about what Ahmadinejad had to say, they wouldn't have guaranteed that he would have center stage in order to say it. They wouldn't have guaranteed that he would be the only head of state at the conference, thereby giving him the podium according to the protocols of those kinds of conferences. They did that in order to give them yet another excuse to whip up hatred towards Iran in an effort to create justifications for military aggression against that country.

On the other hand, I don't consider people defending themselves against occupation to be terrorist activity. And neither does international law. So what the governments of Israel and the US are calling terrorism is not terrorism under international law. I always condemn the killing of civilians, but what Hamas does is not terrorism according to international law, nor Hezbollah, for that matter.

The only hate being spouted on this thread is coming from the people who are helping the government of Israel with its apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against the Palestinians and its planned military attack on Iran, by trying to silence those who speak out against those things.