The previous few responses add distortion to half-truth, creating a
strange parallel reality which no-one taking a balanced and contextual
view of the situation would recognise. The organisations who provided the
facts referred to by respondents have a solid history of one-sidedness,
political agenda and bias. They are far from being the reputable,
objective agencies as claimed. Examples of this are simply too numerous to
start listing in this forum but, just as a start, is there any mention at
all by any of these fine bodies of the atrocities currently being
perpetrated within Gaza amongst Palestinians? If not, the question has to
be why not. Just for the record, the use of ambulances as a means of
crossing borders by suicide bombers is well documented. Any mention of
this salient issue in the reports behind this scurrilous and purely
political demand for boycott? Of course if one chooses to ignore all such
relevant documention by the Israeli authorities then problems such as this
can be happily ignored, and voila, the Israeli demon starts to emerge half
baked.
I would urge the BMA to ignore this tiny but vocal group, some of whom may
be well-intentioned but misinformed, others of whom are simply choosing to
misuse their noble profession and position as a political axe.
Competing interests:
I have lived in Israel and identify with its people.
Rapid Response:
Distortions and more distortions
The previous few responses add distortion to half-truth, creating a
strange parallel reality which no-one taking a balanced and contextual
view of the situation would recognise. The organisations who provided the
facts referred to by respondents have a solid history of one-sidedness,
political agenda and bias. They are far from being the reputable,
objective agencies as claimed. Examples of this are simply too numerous to
start listing in this forum but, just as a start, is there any mention at
all by any of these fine bodies of the atrocities currently being
perpetrated within Gaza amongst Palestinians? If not, the question has to
be why not. Just for the record, the use of ambulances as a means of
crossing borders by suicide bombers is well documented. Any mention of
this salient issue in the reports behind this scurrilous and purely
political demand for boycott? Of course if one chooses to ignore all such
relevant documention by the Israeli authorities then problems such as this
can be happily ignored, and voila, the Israeli demon starts to emerge half
baked.
I would urge the BMA to ignore this tiny but vocal group, some of whom may
be well-intentioned but misinformed, others of whom are simply choosing to
misuse their noble profession and position as a political axe.
Competing interests:
I have lived in Israel and identify with its people.
Competing interests: No competing interests