Bella,
It is not “highly successful Arab PR” that has stirred the NIF, but an affronted sense of justice derived from Moses’ writings. Writings honoured by Jews and Muslims alike. Words from Moses’ book Leviticus at 19:18. All such people including this atheist ask themselves the very simple question “How would we feel if these things were done to us?”

Justice is simply ‘due treatment’ and it is offended on both sides so that injustice is felt and expressed by both sides.

One day both sides will see the injustice on both sides and then we will have an awakening and a change, like under Mandela or as in Northern Ireland or like what may be happening now in Korea.

So it looks as if there is hope

Well said Morri.
Australia probably has more to answer for than does Israel.

Leon doesn’t say why he believes that “To call it “an occupation” is an obscenity and an egregious affront to decency, history and law.”
We are interested Leon so please don’t hold back.

Those who use that terminology, Jews and non-Jews, should be (but are not) ashamed of themselves.

Maybe if NIF would devote as much time to teaching our friendly Arab neighbours to recognize the State of Israel and to seek peace than to destroy both physical and emotional barriers, the NIF could be using their time constructively.

However it seems their ‘New Israel’ is based on political correctness led by highly successful Arab PR.

One might have thought that the ‘New Israelis’ had learned from the ‘land for peace’ initiative that turned Gaza into a rocket launcher where viability of a productive environment (including greenhouses donated by American Jews) was purposely destroyed in order to undermine peace – and where the folk who suffer most from this are the unfortunate Arab population. But then why would their corrupt, self-serving Arab leaders or the misguided bleeding hearts of the ‘New Israel’ Fund care about them?