Israel is, after all, chiefly an American problem,
It is a USA-worsened problem, but the reality is a basic human rights problem, EU included, so washing our hands doesn´t help.
the same way that I care about Indochina or Central Africa: We could use diaries in all those issues if you are informed, because they are our problems also. Think of labor and resource exploitation in favor the north world production and trade.
Europe's geostrategic stance, but that case does not stand or fall with Palestine alone, any more than it stands or falls with Nigeria, Somalia or Sierra Leone individually. Therefore.... we can ignore all of them and do nothing about any of them? It´s too simplistic to keep kicking the ball out of the park, so we don´t have to be bothered, while so many of our companies are exploiting those very countries and are directly implicated in the abuses and government corruption. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
Therefore.... we can ignore all of them and do nothing about any of them?
Straw man much? All I'm saying is that I would like a little context and a sense of proportion. Horrible as Palestine is, it is not the only human rights disaster in the world - it's not even the worst one. Now, I don't think human rights disasters generally get the attention they deserve, but I'm a little tired of pro-Palestinian activists - however worthy their cause - whining that Palestine (Palestine, note, not human rights abuses in general) doesn't get enough attention. It's repetitive, it's preachy and it's boring. Two out of those three, I can live with. All three... not so much.
I think the problem is one of style more than of substance. There is no style rule on ET, so that is a baseless cop out.
It's an observation, not a cop out. I can read press releases on Ritzau, I don't need ET for that. You'll note that the PES people who sent an activist over here to do some viral marketing for their cause don't get a lot of attention paid to their diaries either. Not because the stuff they write about isn't interesting, but because they're writing in press-release style, not blog post style. Which is a pity, actually, because a lot of those diaries could have been very good if they hadn't sounded like run-of-the-mill propaganda.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Horrible as Palestine is, it is not the only human rights disaster in the world
Save for the fact that it's a pillar of the Global War on Torror.
As far as I can tell, the GWoT is a label that's applied to any conflict that the American government wants to gin up domestic support for and/or prevent from falling into domestic disrepute. I'm far from convinced that that label has anything much to do with the facts on the ground.
