Blah blah blah…
What has the UAE got to do with this?
Where do you spend your money?
“I do not wish to support that nation’s economy. “
Hey, neither do I .
“Let’s not condemn all the people of a nation, here”
Where did I do that? I didn’t even touch on it, did I?
I appreciate that it might therefore be seen as being hypocritical to visit the country personally”
That is what your money would be doing, isn’t it? Supporting the economy?
“I might learn something, if I went.”
Well, many of the facts are easily available to anyone with an internet connection. What piece of information that may prevent you supporting an apartied state are you in search of? Where do you intend to get it?
I have loved ones who believe in racial purity too. I wouldn’t support a state with that ideology though.
“Maybe, if ordinary Israeli people have more dialogue with others, then hopefully, more peaceful solutions to that region’s problems can be discussed.”
Well, what’s stopping them? what has stopped them so far ? they do after all have the best living standards in that region by a country mile..oh, you mean the rightwing nut jobs that run the country, not the minority with ideals somewhat more in line with our own? Sorry, but Zionists are very unlikely anytime soon to renounce racial superiority and “god given” birthright to someone else’s land.