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Thread #153638   Message #3655689
Posted By: robomatic
31-Aug-14 - 08:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
Subject: RE: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
I know somebody suggested that Hamas could spend more time digging shelters for their people and less time digging tunnels for attacking Israeli civilians; that Hamas could buy fewer attack rockets and thus have more money for items like food and durable goods for their own economy. That Hamas could refrain from launching their weapons into Israel as first strike weaponry, then either gloat over Israeli deaths, or claim that every dead Palestinian is a female, civilian, or child, which in many cases is true since they used all conditions as cannon fodder around their mobile launch centers.

Meanwhile, the BDS movement is more and more obviously an attempt at defeating Israel by taking any and all routes - civil, military, legal, illegal, and saying Anything that will get them where they want to be - on Israeli territory without being bothered by Jewish citizens.
The only really believable argument on their side is in the Hamas Charter, which has been constant and consistent from Day One. It is concerned with victory, which is a long way from legality and fairness.
BDS can gain traction in one of two ways: Be seen as an istrement demanding fair treatment of all parties, or as an inexorable attempt to pressure Israel with the weight of the world isolating her. But if it tries to do both at the same time it will fracture internally due to perceived inconsistency in its motivations. Are those 'nonaligned' members of the BDS movement truly pressuring for fairness? Or are they useful idiots in the service of aggression by any means?