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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe World's Blatant Double Standard - In Israel's Favor
The American Studies Association may be singling out Israel for boycott, but if you look at the serious, painful punishments the world metes out to oppressor nations, Israel is not being singled out, its being let off the hook.By Larry Derfner |Published December 27, 2013
As of Friday at noon, a Google search of human rights sanctions turns up over 40 million results. There are human rights sanctions and other punishments against China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Yemen, Belarus, Cuba, North Korea and lots of other countries. And these sanctions werent put in place by some minor academic group like the American Studies Association, but by the United States of America, the European Union and/or the United Nations Security Council. Furthermore, these sanctions hurt those countries quite a bit more than the ASAs boycott of Israeli colleges is likely to hurt Israel.
Yet you would think from the reaction to the recent ASA boycott that no other country in the world is being punished for its human rights violations. Everybodys jumping on ASA president Curtis Marezs quote on why the organization was going after Israel instead of other, far worse malefactors: One has to start somewhere, he told The New York Times. But while the ASA may be starting with Israel, the powers-that-be in the world have gone after any number of human-rights violating countries yet still havent gotten to Israel and its 46-year military dictatorship over the Palestinians.
If you look at the serious, painful punishments the world metes out to oppressor nations, Israel is not being singled out, its being let off the hook.
Would Israels defenders like to see the world treat this country like it treats Iran by bringing it to its knees with crippling sanctions, not to mention the clamor from some quarters to bomb its nuclear facilities?
Or would they like Israel to be treated like Syria by freezing its foreign assets and denying entry to any Israeli involved in the occupation? Would they want the U.S. to arm some of the groups fighting Israel? Would they have preferred Israel being one step away from getting bombed by the U.S.? Would they rather that the world powers destroy Israels chemical weapons or would they choose the ASA boycott?
Or if not like Syria, would Israels advocates like this country to be treated like China with the U.S. vetoing its international loan applications and the U.S. and EU imposing an arms embargo on it? By the way, lots of countries are faced with arms embargoes by the U.S., EU and/or the UN, including Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Israel, by contrast, gets $3 billion worth of arms from America every year.
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The World's Blatant Double Standard - In Israel's Favor (Original Post)
Purveyor
Dec 2013
OP
Perhaps but the article covers issues much broader that just the I/P situation. eom
Purveyor
Dec 2013
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Kurska
(5,739 posts)1. This belongs in the I/P dungeon n/t
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)2. Perhaps but the article covers issues much broader that just the I/P situation. eom
Kurska
(5,739 posts)3. Primary feature is I/P though and I/P issues. n/t
Mosby
(16,350 posts)4. the ongoing occupation is a result of the failure of the palestinians
To move the negotiating process forward.
This isn't just about Israel like derfner wants people to think, this is a conflict that can only be resolved through 2 party negotiations per unscr 242.
tritsofme
(17,399 posts)5. Oppressor nations? What absolute garbage.