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 wasn't silent about the Iranian revolts, I supported the dissidents in thread after thread here.
And I've never had any use for Ahmadinejad, and have repeatedly made THAT clear. I just don't want to see huge numbers of Iranian civilians killed in missile attacks. Those attacks would kill a lot of anti-Ahmadinejad Iranians, and would have no guarantees of even getting close to any Iranian nuclear facilities, assuming that Iran actually is trying to build nuclear weapons, which is still far from clear.
My position on Iran now is based on opposition to needless loss of life, not support for the fascist regime there.
And I was always clear that I thought Mubarak should hold real elections and allow secular opposition parties, rather than insisting on forcing the spectrum into his "party" vs. the MB. Prior to the Tahrir Square rising, there wasn't actually much else anyone could do regarding the Egyptian situation, since prior to that there was no reason to think there was any chance of change.
I didn't discuss those issues in the I/P thread because neither of those situations pertained to the I/P issue. Really, we should get rid of the I/P thread and allow the discussion of I/P issues throughout DU, which would make more holistic
discussions of these issues possible...rather than hiving this off in one somewhat hidden forum with unusually restrictive rules of discussion.