On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Moshe Z. Matitya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stallman is a radical anti-Israel extremist, as a brief Google search will > reveal rather quickly. I ran quite some searches and read some of his posts and I have not seen anything radical anti-Israeli. There are lots of things he points out about Israel that hurt me. I would like to see Israel as a state that ensures the human rights of both of its citizens and its neighbors and some of his post show that it is far from being true. If you look at his posts you can see he also posts lots of bad things about other countries. Both first wordl (e.g. Spain) and third world. The situation might be a lot better in Israel than in Syria or Iran or even the Palestinian Authority but I don't think that needs to be the way we measure ourselves. As to Stallman, I am very surprised he did not use his influence pointing out to the Palestinians that his talks in Israel would be actually good for them. I am quite sure Stallman, in his speeches in Israel would have pointed out the shortcomings of the Israeli democracy. Including that of the occupation. So I think with this "boycott" both the Palestinians and Stallman just hurt their own cause. Gabor http://szabgab.com/ _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
