Jun 4, 2012 -- 12:56PM, Mlyons619 wrote:

Sherri, if you want to address the Iraq casualty topic, then go to the Iraq War Thread.  Again, we've had extensive discussios of the various inflated casualty counts by both Hopkins and ORB.  It's off topic here.

Again, CPT's moral outrage is all fine and dandy, but is it based more on emotion and propaganda than on fact?

Again,why does CPT think olive trees are more important than Syrian lives? 

 

Mlyons619,

If you want to address the Syria topic, then go to that thread.

CPT has nothing to do with anything happening in Syria.

CPT members have a physical presence that they maintain in the OPT, inside Hebron (it used to be At Tuwani and Hebron). They support peacemaking, not war. They observe human rights abuses and they write about what they see. You cannot get better evidence of what is happening in Palestine then a witness personal account of it, there is no question but that their reports possess credibility and reliability. That last article I provided a link to addressed CPT Joy Ellison and her witnessing the abduction, beating, and torture of a Palestinian man in At Tuwani, near Hebron, and her asking an Israeli soldier why he was tortured.

I choose to support Peacemakers over War Starters any day.

Sherri 

Jun 3, 2012 -- 11:52PM, habesor wrote:

Sherri,

I have never had any contact what-so-ever with the CPT activists. However a friend of mine, who is Spanish, a non-Jew and worked for a time in an NGO on the West Bank doing humanitarian work among the Palestinians told me that after long discussions with members of CPT, her impression was that they were unknowledgeable about the conflict and were motivated mostly by traditional Christian antisemitism. Have you met and talked to any members of CPT? If so, what do you think about their motivations?

Habesor

I was not quite sure what was meant by NGO so Googled it. Two items struck me on the very first page and in this light perhaps we should not take the word of a NGO worker to be speaking from pure motives.

Israeli security forces have arrested Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and placed him in detention, incommunicado

JNews, 7 May 2010

"Makhoul, a human rights defender and General Director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations, a Palestinian-Israeli NGO network holding special consultative status at the UN, has also been barred from leaving Israel.

According to his family, at 3:10am on 6 May, sixteen Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet, Shabac) agents and Israeli police officers raided the family home of Makhoul in Haifa and arrested him."

 Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited – Fri 4 May, 2012