MontyB
All-Blacks Supporter
Palestinians clearly couldn't get into israel any more. However there are 1.2 million israeli arabs. some of whom I assume would be willing to act on behalf of the palestinians ( the failure of the palestinians to get the israeli arabs to identify with more with the palestinians than israel and act as well is another interesting issue)
I don't think it is all that difficult to understand, I would suspect that should they start rocking the boat they are more than likely going to find themselves in hot water and if you have a family to look after I imagine keeping quiet would be a priority, further to this I imagine a number of them support the Israeli cause which is not unusual when you look at the number of Jews, Russians, Dutch etc. that fought for the Germans during WW2.
All of things you mentioned - the torture, the military courts do happen, but I am not sure you can compare them to nazi germany.
What would you compare them to then, perhaps a third world dictatorship?
Another strand - what stops a rich arab billionaire buying up vast tracts of the privately owned land in israel as it comes on the commercial market in the same way that jewish american billionaires buy arab house in jerusalem?
The law stops them.
And I am also aware that the semi non violent demonstrations in the west bank haven't always worked and have frequently resulted in people going to jail, especially when people are protesting are land being seized.
which leads me back to suing in foreign courts regarding the fact that the military courts are clearly unfair to palestinians.
If they are not going to take notice of the hundreds of UN resolutions concerning their behavior then what do you reckon the chances are they will listen to foreign courts?
List of resolution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel
I can certainly see some advantages in a non-violent program being adopted along side the existing resistance as it would serve to disrupt Israeli foreign relations which would translate through to economic pressure and lets face it the USA just can't write cheques like they used to but I do not see any reason for the combat side of the Palestinian movement to do anything but improve because in the end the only way peace will eventually arrive is when the casualty rate of both sides becomes unsustainable.