Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: South African companies boycott G4S over links to Israeli prisons [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)is hijacked to discuss Hamas. I see this over and over in this group. Some apologists for the Israeli version of apartheid seem to have two responses whenever unflattering news about Israel is posted.
First, attack the source. Rather than refute the source, call motives into question. That way, even if the post is factual, the motives of the poster or of the source become the controversy.
Second, deny whatever is posted. Deny any history of the area if it does not support a right wing Israeli position.
Bombing of the King David Hotel? No connection to Jewish gangs in Israeli revisionist history.
Multiple massacres of Palestinians during the 1940's? None of them happened according to Israeli revisionist history.
Continuing violations of International Law by settling and developing stolen land? We want land swaps. Legal under revisionist legal history.
It is difficult to debate people who refuse to accept abundantly documented facts when the facts conflict with whatever position the apologist clings to. But in spite of the Israeli revisionist history that some here persist in writing, the world is learning about what is going on in Palestine.