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Lebanesproud, Malalai Joya and Malala Yousafzai are two of my heroes ..

Malalai Joya on the attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai
http://enpassant.com.au/category/malalai-joya/

Those you mention i respect for their achievements, for who they are .. they're great today .. lol,
much prefer them to any politician of the GOP .. that doesn't mean to agree with them on everything.

The reason i suggested you have a closer look at Juan Cole's post is that .. well .. i dunno .. here are his points 8-10 again ..

8. Israeli hawks justify their aggression on the Palestinians on grounds of self-defense. But Israel is a country of 7.5 million people with tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, helicopter gunships and F-16s and F-18s, plus 400 nuclear warheads. Gaza is a small occupied territory of 1.7 million which has no heavy weaponry, just some old guns and some largely ineffectual rockets. (Israelis cite hundreds of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in 2012; but until Israel’s recent attack they had killed not a single Israeli, though they did wound a few last March when fighting between Palestinians and Israelis escalated.) Gaza is a threat to Israel the way the Transkei Bantustan was a threat to Apartheid South Africa. As for genuine asymmetrical threats from Gaza to Israel, they could be dealt with by giving the Palestinians a state and ceasing the blockade imposed on them, or in the worst case scenario counter-terrorism targeted at terrorists rather than indiscriminate bombing campaigns.

9. Israeli hawks maintain that they were provoked into the attack. But actually Ahmad Jabari, the Hamas leader the Israelis assassinated earlier this week, had been engaged in talks with the Israelis about a truce .. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-peace-activist-hamas-leader-jabari-killed-amid-talks-on-long-term-truce.premium-1.478085 . Assassinations achieved by the ruse of openness to peace talks are guarantees of no further peace talks.

10. Although most American media is a cheering section for the Likud Party, in fact the world is increasingly done out with Israel’s aggressiveness .. http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/11/16/john-mearsheimer/a-pillar-built-on-sand/. Boycotts and sanctions will likely grow over time, leaving Israeli hawks with a deficit…

http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/top-ten-myths-about-israeli-attack-on-gaza.html

more: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=81605453

More heroes ..

Environmental activists 'being killed at rate of one a week'

Death toll of campaigners involved in protection of forests, rivers and land has almost doubled in three years

Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 June 2012 01.54 BST


Amazon rainforest activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria
do Espirito Santo, who were murdered last year. Photograph: Reuters
..continued .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/19/environment-activist-deaths

ordinary people .. on a different level .. those who toil ceaselessly here
and everywhere in opposition to the barbarian grossly obdurate party,
today's GOP, and others as them who toil against ignorance, everywhere ..

have never been much for the hero label .. oh .. Nelson
Mandela was one .. most all do their best where able ..

AND yes, of course MLK .. all your Freedom Riders .. and those at our Eureka Stockade ..