Biggles of 266
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This is taken directly from Michael Moore, so don't send your gratitude or anger my way. It's written by an American for Americans, hence the use of 'we, us, our' in the text.
Mike's Four Step plan for Peace in the Middle East.
1. Congress should inform Israel that it has thirty days to end the bloodshed perpetrated in its/our name - or we cut off the entire $3 billion in funding. Individual terrorism is bad enough, but state-sponsored terrorism is truly evil. I understand that the world will always have the occasional lone crazy with grievances he feels compelled to avenge with violence. But for the Israelis, a group of otherwise good and intelligent people, to collectively enforce a system of terror against another group simply because of their race or religion is unconscionable. And you and I and millions of other taxpaying Americans put up the money for Israel's unconscionable actions - actions that could not exist if each of us wasn't having 4 cents taken from our paychecks today and every day to buy the bullets that go into the Israeli guns that kill the Palestinian children.
2. If it wants to keep receiving our tax dollars, Israel should be given a year to work out a plan with the Palestinians to creat a nation called Palestine (formed from the West Bank, Gaza, and some strip of land that connects them). This new nation of Palestine must then present a constitution that not only prohibits any form of aggression against Israel but also guarantees full democratic rights to every Palestinian man, woman, and child.
3. The United States will then give Palestine double what it has given Israel in funding (for a permanent peace, I'd gladly give up my portion of this - pennies a week). This is not free cash for corrupt public officials. This is Marshall Plan-style direct aid that builds roads, schools, and industries that provide decent-paying jobs.
4. The United States should then commit to defending Israel against anyone who still wants it destroyed - and vow to to defend a democratic Palestine from its neighbouring Arab regimes (who are going to go bonkers if their own oppressed peoples see how good these Palestinian Arabs have it living in freedom and prosperity).
From an open letter to President Arafat, part of a plan calling for mass civil disobedience:
1. Sit your ass down. That's it. It's simple. You just lay your bodies down - often just a few thousand in the middle of the road will do - and don't move and don't fight back when they try to drag you away. Instead of the Israel always shutting down the borders to Gaza and the West Bank, you shut them down. Just march peacefully up to the checkpoint and then sit down. No Israelis will be able to get to their settlements. No Israelis will be able to transport goods and natural resources from your land into Israel. There is no Israeli vehicle I know of that can drive over mounds of people (not even a pair of snow tires will do the job!). Of course, they may try, and a number of your people may be killed or injured. Still, don't move. Just sit. The world will be watching - especially if you embrace the wonderful world of public relations, and alert the world media to your plans (trust me, CNN will take your call). And you'll end up with far fewer dead Palestinians than you yeild under your current plan.
2. Call a general strike. Refuse to work for the Israelis. Their economy is based on the labour you provide them. Don't do it anymore. Who will do all their sh*t work for them if Palestinians won't? They need you and your willingness to break your backs for them for substandard wages. Watch how quickly a deal is struck once every single Arab refuses to go to work. Of course, they'll try to break you. They will cut off your water, your roads, your food - but you must stand firm. Stockpile, then strike nonviolently, and never give in. They will.
This technique worked for Martin Luther King Jr. His nonviolent movement brought an end to legal segregation in America. It worked for Gandhi - he and his fellow Indians brought the entire British empire to its knees without firing a shot. It worked for Nelson Mandela - he and the ANC brought an end to apartheid.
Is this worth a shot? Of course! I'd gladly have 20 cents taken out of my pay every week to help fund a Palestinian state and protect them and the Israelis from anyone who might want to hurt them. What do you guys think?
Biggles
edit: forgot to check my spelling! I'd hate to look like an eedjit with errors all through it 🙄
Mike's Four Step plan for Peace in the Middle East.
1. Congress should inform Israel that it has thirty days to end the bloodshed perpetrated in its/our name - or we cut off the entire $3 billion in funding. Individual terrorism is bad enough, but state-sponsored terrorism is truly evil. I understand that the world will always have the occasional lone crazy with grievances he feels compelled to avenge with violence. But for the Israelis, a group of otherwise good and intelligent people, to collectively enforce a system of terror against another group simply because of their race or religion is unconscionable. And you and I and millions of other taxpaying Americans put up the money for Israel's unconscionable actions - actions that could not exist if each of us wasn't having 4 cents taken from our paychecks today and every day to buy the bullets that go into the Israeli guns that kill the Palestinian children.
2. If it wants to keep receiving our tax dollars, Israel should be given a year to work out a plan with the Palestinians to creat a nation called Palestine (formed from the West Bank, Gaza, and some strip of land that connects them). This new nation of Palestine must then present a constitution that not only prohibits any form of aggression against Israel but also guarantees full democratic rights to every Palestinian man, woman, and child.
3. The United States will then give Palestine double what it has given Israel in funding (for a permanent peace, I'd gladly give up my portion of this - pennies a week). This is not free cash for corrupt public officials. This is Marshall Plan-style direct aid that builds roads, schools, and industries that provide decent-paying jobs.
4. The United States should then commit to defending Israel against anyone who still wants it destroyed - and vow to to defend a democratic Palestine from its neighbouring Arab regimes (who are going to go bonkers if their own oppressed peoples see how good these Palestinian Arabs have it living in freedom and prosperity).
From an open letter to President Arafat, part of a plan calling for mass civil disobedience:
1. Sit your ass down. That's it. It's simple. You just lay your bodies down - often just a few thousand in the middle of the road will do - and don't move and don't fight back when they try to drag you away. Instead of the Israel always shutting down the borders to Gaza and the West Bank, you shut them down. Just march peacefully up to the checkpoint and then sit down. No Israelis will be able to get to their settlements. No Israelis will be able to transport goods and natural resources from your land into Israel. There is no Israeli vehicle I know of that can drive over mounds of people (not even a pair of snow tires will do the job!). Of course, they may try, and a number of your people may be killed or injured. Still, don't move. Just sit. The world will be watching - especially if you embrace the wonderful world of public relations, and alert the world media to your plans (trust me, CNN will take your call). And you'll end up with far fewer dead Palestinians than you yeild under your current plan.
2. Call a general strike. Refuse to work for the Israelis. Their economy is based on the labour you provide them. Don't do it anymore. Who will do all their sh*t work for them if Palestinians won't? They need you and your willingness to break your backs for them for substandard wages. Watch how quickly a deal is struck once every single Arab refuses to go to work. Of course, they'll try to break you. They will cut off your water, your roads, your food - but you must stand firm. Stockpile, then strike nonviolently, and never give in. They will.
This technique worked for Martin Luther King Jr. His nonviolent movement brought an end to legal segregation in America. It worked for Gandhi - he and his fellow Indians brought the entire British empire to its knees without firing a shot. It worked for Nelson Mandela - he and the ANC brought an end to apartheid.
Is this worth a shot? Of course! I'd gladly have 20 cents taken out of my pay every week to help fund a Palestinian state and protect them and the Israelis from anyone who might want to hurt them. What do you guys think?
Biggles
edit: forgot to check my spelling! I'd hate to look like an eedjit with errors all through it 🙄
And please, no whining about the "liberal" media! 
