Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/13/israel/

by Joshim5 • 15 years ago

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kingkilr• 15 years ago

Techcrunch is getting into the social commentary business?

wisty• 15 years ago

Or the linkbait business.

andrewfelix3• 15 years ago

Anyone else notice you can't comment on the article?

pokoleo• 15 years ago

It's a funny juxtaposition with Syria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_...

yuvadam4• 15 years ago

It's a funny juxtaposition with the rest of the world.

One has to be extremely ignorant to fail to comprehend that Madrid, Cairo, New York, Tripoli, Tel Aviv, Damascus, Athens and London are all part of the same story.

guelo• 15 years ago

They're mad about prices of their rents but strangely they don't care about the price of the settlements. Or the injustice of them.

yuvadam4• 15 years ago

The sole reason that the current protests are a consensus right now is because the protest leaders have framed this as a nationwide, non-political, issue.

Rest assured that the majority of the protestors are much aware of the moral and economic price of the settlements and would rather see them taken apart. Current estimates put the total investment in settlements in the West Bank and Gaza over the years at more than $50B. Trust that the general Israeli population would very much want to see those amounts of money invested in health, welfare, transportation and education within the '67 lines.

Stating that fact upfront would have marked the protests as "yet another leftist campaign".

JohnsonB2• 15 years ago

Take the settlements apart? You do realize that amounts to ethnic cleansing, correct? Neither the majority of the Israeli population nor the protesters believe this is a good idea.

andrewfelix3• 15 years ago

It's a (not so)funny juxtaposition with Gaza. http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/gazaoneyearon/2009/12/200...

systems• 15 years ago

what's happening in syria is a revolution (attempt)against a totalitarian regime

what's happening in israel are protests

not remotely comparable

emilsedgh• 15 years ago

Revolutions happen when people are not allowed to protest.

Confusion• 15 years ago

This is badly written. The first paragraph of the article suggests the civil disobedience in Israel is far from classy, but in fact that first paragraph describes London and is meant to be juxtaposed to the next paragraphs that describe the protests in Israel. Some commenters already interpreted it wrongly.

StavrosK• 15 years ago

That first paragraph and next sentence make absolutely zero sense. "Things have happened, except the opposite." What the hell does that mean?

molecule• 15 years ago

Arrington-AOL must be preparing to launch TechCrunch-Israel.

Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience

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