Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I oppose them and want them out. I've said that over and over again.
You can't seriously argue that someone has to defend the siege of Gaza to prove they don't like Hamas.
And it couldn't be progressive to defend military action there such as OCL since such action only really killed Gazan civilians and could never have had progressive results. Don't you understand that?
And it could never have been progressive to say that Mubarak should have been kept in power, since there was no hope of anything ever getting better if he did...whereas there is open space now and there are possibilities for change. Mubarak would just have handed over to his corrupt kids and then the story would have been over forever, just as it would have been in Iran if Pahlevi had passed power on to his kids(none of whom would ever have disbanded SAVAK).