Well then if by Australia's numbers, Israel should get another 70 years or so before they have to start paying reparations. Then lets see, if it weren't for the U.S. and their assistance to The Crown 39-45, Australia would be Japanese territory. So if the U.S. can sacrifice it's soldiers to help save the British Empire, then I think she can and has earned the right to VETO anything they so desire.
Wow I hope the rest of your post shows more factual accuracy than the first paragraph, it is almost as accurate as me claiming that if it weren't for the French you would be part of the Commonwealth, still it is the highly thought out mechanisms of the UN that allow the Chinese and Russians to VETO anything they like as well and I am pleased you support that.
And you can deride my daughter all you want. She can handle herself. I am sure her Palestinian friends would not have a problem cutting someones throat for her. And there is no doubt, that you would not ever say that to her face or mine.
Clearly you have never dealt with Aussies or Kiwi's before as there is nothing we won't say to your face or her's should it require saying, political correctness and diplomacy probably could be described as "not our strong points", also you may want to get together with VD as he has spent the last 158 pages trying to convince us that Palestinians don't exist so either he is lying or your daughter is delusional and has imaginary friends.
So with that said, I pray that you have a nice day. And if you want, I have a Austrian Blue Cover of Mein Kamph. I also have it in Arabic if that will help. I would be happy to sell them to you. I have a couple copies of the Quran that I will throw in for you. Just pay the extra shipping and handling.
1) Praying wont help.
2) What is on the cover of your version of Mein Kampf?
3) Don't need a Qur'an as I already have one, it is in the fiction section of my library next to the Bible and any other religious dogma I may have collected over the years.
The only bright spot on the horizon is that it appears the US is waking up to the fact that Israel detests them for all except their money, military might and power of Veto in the UN. As a result of which Israel is gradually losing it's preferred status, and the US and others are becoming more eager to talk with the Iranians. Should this proceed, I see "interesting times" for you and your pariah state in the next 10 - 15 years.
Yep like this crowd...
US scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel
By MAYA SHWAYDER, JTA
12/16/2013 18:50
American Studies Association endorses its national council’s call for a boycott of Israeli universities.
Boycotting Israel Photo: REUTERS
NEW YORK – The 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA), which describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history,” announced on Monday that it had endorsed and would participate in a boycott of Israeli universities and academic institutions.
It is the second educational group in the US to adopt the boycott. The Association for Asian American Studies did so in April. Another academic group, the American Association of University Professors, recently reiterated its opposition.
In all, 1,252 members of the ASA participated in the vote on whether or not to endorse the boycott. Approximately 66 percent voted yes, 30% voted no and 3% abstained. The voting began on December 4 and ended on Sunday.
The membership-wide canvass was unprecedented. It was undertaken in part at the behest of boycott opponents who said at the ASA’s annual conference last month in Washington that the matter was too sensitive to leave to the group’s 20-member national council, which had unanimously endorsed a boycott.
“The National Council engaged and addressed questions and concerns of the membership throughout the process,” the ASA statement said.
“During the open discussion at the recent convention, members asked us to draft a resolution that was relevant to the ASA in particular and so the Council’s final resolution acknowledged that the US plays a significant role in enabling the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The final resolution, which applies to the ASA as an organization, is not binding on its members. It also targets institutions, not individuals.
In Monday’s announcement, the ASA said it would still invite Israeli and Palestinian academics to its 2014 national meeting in Los Angeles.
Jewish groups in the US reacted strongly and immediately to the announcement.
The boycott was a “shameful, morally bankrupt and intellectually dishonest attack on academic freedom,” said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in a statement.
“Targeting Israeli institutions solely because they are in Israel – the only democratic country in the Middle East, where scholarship and debate are encouraged and flourish – is based on a myopic and fundamentally distorted perspective of Israel and the conflict and is manifestly unjust,” Foxman went on. “We commend those members of the ASA who boldly spoke out and voted against this shameful resolution.”
Kenneth Stern, the American Jewish Committee’s director for issues of anti-Semitism and extremism, called it “blatant discrimination against Israelis.”
“Academic freedom is based on the principle that human civilization benefits from the free flow of ideas and knowledge,” Stern said in an AJC statement. “This resolution – ghettoizing knowledge simply because it is tied to Israeli academic institutions – violates the core principles of the academy.”
Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, had similar words for the ASA , saying that it was actions like this that caused “many Americans [to] dismiss the academy as deeply biased and disconnected with reality.”
On the other side of the spectrum, the California-based Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) issued a statement supporting the boycott, saying it represented a “significant milestone in the growth of the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement in the United States.”
“With its endorsement, the members of the ASA have voted to hold Israeli institutions accountable for their participation in human rights violations, bringing into sharp focus Israeli policies that severely limit the academic freedom of Palestinians within the occupied Palestinian territory and inside Israel,” JVP said.
“While Jewish Voice for Peace takes no position on academic boycotts, we do not believe that boycotts to pressure Israel to abide by international law are inherently anti-Semitic.”
The group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) also gave its “unqualified endorsement” of the boycott, saying the resolution would “move us one small step closer to a world of democracy, freedom, and justice.”
The ADL included the two groups on the list it compiled this year of the 10 most anti-Semitic organizations in the United States.
http://www.jpost.com/International/...in-favor-of-academic-boycott-of-Israel-335178
