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Two questions from the Dyke March:
1) Why does being a lesbian have to come with a built-in political agenda? Just because I like girls I need to be an anti-Capitalist vegan? Why?
2) Why has the left so embraced the Palestinian side of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Do they not understand that Israel was created in an attempt to create a place of refuge for a group that had just barely survived attempted genocide? Do they not understand that they are siding with a group that systematically uses acts of terror to advance their cause? Can they not understand that no, Israel isn't perfect but that this isn't a black and white issue?
1) Why does being a lesbian have to come with a built-in political agenda? Just because I like girls I need to be an anti-Capitalist vegan? Why?
2) Why has the left so embraced the Palestinian side of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Do they not understand that Israel was created in an attempt to create a place of refuge for a group that had just barely survived attempted genocide? Do they not understand that they are siding with a group that systematically uses acts of terror to advance their cause? Can they not understand that no, Israel isn't perfect but that this isn't a black and white issue?
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(Anonymous) 2008-07-03 09:08 am (UTC)(link)There was no such thing as a self governing United States of America before the War of Independence. Did this make it right when the Superpowers of the day diced the country up between them?
You know, it's amazing how little affection the Eastern European Jews I know have for their "homelands."
I worded that badly. I meant that the Eastern European Jews must once - maybe 50 generations back or more - have come from the middle east. They didn't arise by prostelytisation, they're not converts, so if you go back far enough their ancestors must once have known Judea.
I don't believe Eastern European Jews anywhere (even Manchester) have much of a hankering for their old places of residence. We have a TV programme where well known people research their ancestry, and they've done a couple of people whose family fled from that area. In both cases, it was virtually never talked about in the family. Too many bad memories.
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