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In reply to the discussion: Columbia protesters want to be fed while the occupy campus building [View all]Dave says
(4,674 posts)Expelled former students do not get food under a student meal plan, do they?
Having said that, lets pretend for a moment that they are protesting a war in which our soldiers are dying, you know, like the Vietnam war. Would we then post with such acerbity? Arent these methods similar to what students did in the sixties and early seventies to bring about an end to the Vietnam War? If so, we should not be so quick to ridicule and criticize.
But it isnt our war. We are not bombing Gaza. Yes, we can and have been trying to influence Israel, but Biden cant simply issue an executive order and bring an end to it. The Israelis and Palestinians need to end it.
But the anarcho-syndicalist in me cannot help but have sympathy for the students, for the non-Hamas-loving Palestinians, for the Israelis who desire peace - it is a complex situation, not easy to resolve. I wish all of them the best.