[OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011 12:43:51 Stan Goodman wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 at 12:23:27 (GMT+2) "Uri Even-Chen"
> 
> <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> > > The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the
> > > academic boycott.
> > > 
> > > Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC
> > > (atomic/biological/chemical) weapons to fight the Israeli
> > > occupation "because they are too weak to fight using conventional
> > > means"? Academic boycott is as illegitimate (even if it does not
> > > immediately cause people to die).
> > 
> > I can understand why people boycott Israeli universities. The Israeli
> > universities are strongly related to the Israeli government and are
> > funded by the Israeli government. They are also related to the
> > Israeli military. When people want to express their opinions against
> > the Israeli occupation, one of the ways to do it is boycott Israeli
> > universities. But I understand that Richard Stallman is not
> > completely boycotting Israel, only universities. Therefore his views
> > are not extreme against Israel but only against Israeli occupation.
> > By boycotting the Israeli universities he expresses his views
> > against the Israeli occupation.
> > 
> > Uri Even-Chen
> > Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
> > E-mail: uri at speedy.net
> > Website: http://www.speedy.net/
> 
> I can only wonder why Mr Stallman seems unconcerned with such details as
> bombarding civilians with thousands of rockets and mortar bombs for
> years on end, after ending a de facto cease fire for no defined reason;
> for encouraging children to become "martyrs" to murder Jews for the sake
> of God; for encouraging suicide bombing of schoolbusses (and recently
> killing a kid by targetting a schoolbus with an anti-tank shell); for
> encouraging such incidents as the recent murder of the Fogel family
> (which is not the first case); for talking "Peace" in English to naive
> journalists, while reminding their own people in Arabic that they will
> destroy Israel, given enough time; for never to negotiate in good faith
> (demanding concessions while never once compromising); for refusing to
> negotiate at all, but whinng that Israel won't consent to total
> surrender without condeding the end of the conflict, and for violating
> all the laws of war by fighting from behind women and children (which is
> a  war crime in "International Law", and then crying that Israel
> murdered babies when it conducts a legal defense.
> 
> That is a very brief list of some of the things that go over Mr
> Stallman's head. I think they amount to gross hypocrisy. Giving him a
> pass for his hypocrisy is also hypocritical.

How do all these things of what the Palestinians are doing wrong, invalidate 
Stallman's criticism against Israel? Shouldn't Israel behave properly 
regardless of whatever the other side is doing? 

And we are getting way off-topic here.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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