[YankeeMagic]

I am not at all up to speed on this... Why does the Methodist Church against Cat doing business with Isreal?

[georgiagirl_pam]

I hate to be simplistic, but liberals hate Israel. The mere existence of Israel, they believe, is the cause of all of the problems in the world. They “oppress” the Palestinians, they “steal” their land, blah, blah, blah. It is simply political, leftist hatred. So Caterpillar sells bulldozers to Israel, Israel uses the bulldozers to destroy the homes of suicide bombers, therefore they believe that Caterpillar is complicit in the “oppression” of the Palestinians.

[agrace]

The IDF uses Caterpillars for the destruction of Palestinian terrorist homes and other war efforts. Here’s an article from Human Rights Watch protesting such use - http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/22/isrlpa9711.htm

And it’s no secret that the increasingly liberal UMC has supported divestment from Israel for a long time now due to perceived “human rights abuses” against the Palestinians.

[fweingart]

Apparently, they find they have more in common with Israel’s enemies.

[Wuli]

“Why does the Methodist Church against Cat doing business with Isreal?”

many UMC leaders are fellow-traveler sheeple who follow the latest marxist and leftist political fads, of which a current one - begun in europe - is divestment from israel

refusing to face the truth of the self-inflicted calamities that Palestinian-Arab choices have inflicted on Palestinian-Arabs - by preferring war and extermination of israel instead of peace - they buy the latest marxist political analogy equating israel with south african apartheid (the older rant of “zionism is racism” has become pas see)