Reply #30: I predate you by a bit... [View All]

My intro to politics was back when Gough Whitlam got sacked and that evening my parents dragged us kids out to a big rally in front of Parliament House. All I remember is being really bored and wanting to go home cause I didn't understand what was going on....

Something I've noticed about protests in the Occupied Territories is that people get treated differently, depending on whether they're supporters of the occupation or not. A peaceful protest by anyone who opposes the occupation is met by over the top use of force in order to quell it, and some folk will then try to say the protest wasn't peaceful, conveniently forgetting to mention that it was the IDF or the border police who were the violent ones. But when settlers protest, they don't have to worry about being attacked by Israeli forces, who are, after all there to protect them..

Violet...