Reply #16: I'm Confused [View All]

[debsianben]

You (1) attack conscientious objectors who, while willing to serve in any capacity within Israeli borders, refuse to participate in the colonial occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as "traitors," and you (2)have a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in your signature....a socialist-pacifist who described the Vietnam-era U.S. indignantly as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" and advocated systematic, peaceful law-breaking ("civil disobedience") as a weapon against racism, war and injustice.

On a really basic logical level, am I missing something here?

Oh yeah, I know that Dr. King thought that Israel had a right to exist and opposed the "Zionism is racism" equation, so don't bring that quote up. I agree with him on both counts, but they're utterly irrelevant to this context.