Why AVAAZ.org Gaza petition failed?
Please tell me: Violence or Non Violence
In the past 24 days I receive at least 20 emails and calls to sign the AVAAZ petition to stop the war in Gaza. I believe that all of you have. I also believe that everyone on this earth with an email address saw this call at least once.
AVAAZ.org is boasting 3.2 registered members and their call for actions are known to spread like a wildfire.
So here's what I don't understand.
Why this call received only a little over 500,000 signatures?
And why in comparison AVAAZ.org's Tibet petition received 3 times more signatures?
According to AVAAZ: "the largest global online petition in history -- a call for meaningful dialogue between China and the Dalai Lama that reached 1.5 million signatures in three weeks."
Do you have any idea why?
In the past 24 days I receive at least 20 emails and calls to sign the AVAAZ petition to stop the war in Gaza. I believe that all of you have. I also believe that everyone on this earth with an email address saw this call at least once.
AVAAZ.org is boasting 3.2 registered members and their call for actions are known to spread like a wildfire.
So here's what I don't understand.
Why this call received only a little over 500,000 signatures?
And why in comparison AVAAZ.org's Tibet petition received 3 times more signatures?
According to AVAAZ: "the largest global online petition in history -- a call for meaningful dialogue between China and the Dalai Lama that reached 1.5 million signatures in three weeks."
Do you have any idea why?
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Permalink Reply by silvana on
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i signed.I'm among the 500,000.
but,if i can express my deep thoughts they are:"i'm so bored by this conflict. they are like children:we never understand who started first".
i know it's terrible but i'm fifty and i answer to petitions like this from too many years.
thank you for sharing anyway
silvana
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Permalink Reply by Alex on
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That's a good question. I was thinking about it myself. Perhaps people are just fed up with signing another petition that doesn't really make any difference. Or maybe people ,with all their sympathy to the Gazans civilians, find it difficult to allign themselves with a terror organization that cynically used the population as a human shiled.
And maybe silvana is right, and people are just fed up to hear about another war in the middle east....
Or maybe, just maybe, most people deep down believe that Hamas left Israel no other choice.
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Permalink Reply by Scott on
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I found a great deal of polarisation regarding the Gaza conflict, as matter of fact, a '3-way' split. The marxist/socialists calling Israel foul, plenty of Israel supporters calling Palestine foul, and a large number of people callinf both sides foul, 'calling for peace' & and not really willing to become supportive of either side.
Avaaz held a strong pro-Palestinian stance, which left out the other 2 groups. Avaaz did this as it was the most popular option. IMO, the correct stance is (was) to denounce the Violence & call for a resolution once & for all to the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict through strong, concerted international dialogue and the US taking a less pro-Israel stance etc.
Vale to 1200 or so Palestinians who died, and thankfully there is a ceasefire in place..
With Peace
Scott
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Right on! Which shows you how few people actually buy Palestinian propaganda.
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The answer is easy: The world isn't buying Hamas' cynical propaganda
EU: Hamas has 'overwhelming responsibility' for Gaza war
JABALIYA, Gaza Strip: Hamas bears overwhelming responsibility for the war in Gaza, a senior EU official said on Monday in the Palestinian
territory, labelling the Islamists "a terrorist movement."
"At this time we have to also recall the overwhelming responsibility of Hamas," Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, told reporters in Gaza.
"I intentionally say this here -- Hamas is a terrorist movement and it has to be denounced as such," Michel said as he visited the town of Jabaliya in Gaza's north, one of the places that bore the brunt of the Israeli assault.
"Public opinion is fed up to see that we are paying over and over again -- be it the (European) commission, the member states or the major donors -- for infrastructure that will be systematically destroyed," he said.
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Nicole, in case you haven't noticed, i gave my opinion why the Avaaz petition failed.
As for Braveheart? I don't remember Mel Gibson targeting and slaughtering inocent children and civilians throughout his campaign like the Hamas did.
I have much more compassion for the Palestinian cause than you can imagine. But not for the Hamas and not for its way of violence.
By the way, was this how Braveheart educated the Scots children for freedom?
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Permalink Reply by Gabby Shalala on
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Nicole, I have to agree with Alex on this - comparing Hamas to William Wallace???
Also, another problem with the comparison - the methods used by every nation 50-100 and more years ago are so different that what people of the world tolerate today.
This is the worst comparison I could think of.
Think about stories you hear about American soldiers in Iraq - they are trialed for their crimes in the US itself - you would not ever see this happenning in the old English kingdom!
But still i see your point - palestinian lives are untollerable. But Hamas are definitly not there to try and make them better.
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Permalink Reply by biba zimmermann on
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dear nicole!
your words touched my heart!i am a mother,too,so,i can understand the deep desire for our kids,their future,to be peaceful,to live out of abundance of their hearts and spirits,not out of fear!i thank you for your honesty and still willingness to forgive!that is living faith!god bless you and your family!
biba
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