Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo at LOKi design shared a recent poster he designed for Tadamon!'s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. The current situation in Gaza is undeniably tragic, but like most of what happens in Israel/Palestine the response by progressives in the US is a mixed bag. The typical left/right dividing lines seem to shift when it comes to that region and I find it hard to talk with people about it since emotions run so high. I'm interested to know where readers of this blog fall. Feel free to comment below, though please be respectful of others here, I'm not looking for diatraibes and will delete personal attacks.
If you are interested you can download a PDF of Kevin's poster HERE.
4 comments:
It's not so certain dividing it to left/right, like most things in the middle east it would probably be somewhere in the middle.
I think that the situation is very complicated, both sides are not angels and it will take more to sum it up in a signal poster in order to present the truth.
Eran TLV Israel
You can always go back to “They started it first,” but does that even matter at this point since neither side seems willing to stop? I look at this way: What do you do when everyone around you fails to recognize your right to exist and/or wants you dead, then, little by little, systematically attacks you each day. (That statement could almost apply to either side actually.)
If it were any of us in that position, how would we respond?
Please read the article below. It is the best one I have read yet on the occupation of Gaza.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php
Before we can make a statement like "both sides are at fault" one must define what the two opposing sides are.
Are we discussing Israeli Government vs. Gaza Refugees or Israelis vs. Hamas or Israeli Government vs Hamas, etc.
These changes allow for people whom support an "Israeli stance" or a "Palestinian stance" to justify the support of one or the other.
Personally, I find that the context that legitimizes an organization, such as Hamas, is partially the fault of the Israeli government whom funded radical fundamentalists groups as opposed to secular groups, after the green line was established. Like the US they thought that backwards fundamentalists would be easier to control or point the finger at when necessary.
Thanks to this funding they eliminated any chances of potentially non-violent groups to have emerged.
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