[Air-l] AOIR on AUT

[Paula]

Nicely put!  :-)

Derek McMillan wrote:

>LOL. I am amused by the idea that supporting AUT would be political but
>opposing them is OK because it is non-political. This is doubleplusungood
>doublethink isn't it.
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>FWIW I support AUT.There is an advert on British TV to encourage people to
>vote It says "If you don't do politics, you don't do anything." and suggests
>that if you are interested in the world around you then you are de facto
>interested in politics.
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>I favour a boycott of Israel, not because of its effect of otherwise on the
>brutal oppression of the Palestinians but because we do not have to be
>accomplices in that brutal oppression and a boycott is a non-violent
>civilised way to express that.  You have only to listen to the intemperate
>language with which the Israeli right has responded - rejecting AUT as
>irrelevant and in the same breath denouncing them as terrorists - to see
>that it is having an effect.
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