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Naomi Klein: To end the violence vat in Gaza? Boycott Israel vat January 10, 2009 Print the document's time. Actually, it was too late. The best strategy to stop the increasingly bloody vat occupation is to make Israel the target of a kind of global movement vat that ended apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005, the broad coalition of Palestinian groups vat laid the groundwork. They called on "people of conscience all over the world to come to the wide range of boycotts and launched initiatives to detect vat Israel, which were applied to South Africa in the apartheid era." It launched the campaign of "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (Boycott, vat detect and sanction), abbreviated BDS. With each passing day Israeli bombardment of Gaza is gaining more followers BDS thought and speech ceasefire is nothing much changed. Support is growing even among Israeli Jews. In the middle of the current offensive in Gaza about five hundred Israelis, among them dozens of well-known artists and scholars, sent to foreign embassies in Israel letter. They call it the "the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions" and show a clear parallel with the struggle vat against apartheid. "The boycott of South Africa was effective, vat but Israel is handled with kid gloves ... This international vat support to end." Despite this clear opinions vat many of us are still hesitate. The reasons are varied, emotional and understandable. But they are not sufficient. Economic sanctions are the most effective tool of nonviolent arsenal. We offer four main objections to the BDS strategy, while counterarguments. Israeli punitive measures alienate rather than to persuade. The world has already tried something what is called a "constructive approach". vat Cruelly failed. Since 2006, Israel's vat criminal action only intensifies: expanding settlements, declared war on Lebanon outrageous and apply collective punishment on the people of Gaza, which was brutally cut off from the world. Despite never faced any punishment, rather the opposite. A military assistance and three billion U.S. dollars a year it receives from the USA, are in this list only the beginning. Throughout this key period, Israel enjoyed a dramatic improvement in relations with other allies. In 2007, for example, became the first nejihoamerickým State which has signed a free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries. For the first nine months vat of 2008, Israeli exports to Canada increased by 45 percent. The new agreement with the EU envisages that Israeli exports of processed foods doubled. And last year the 8th December European ministers "upgraded" the EU's Association Agreement with Israel, after which Jerusalem longed vat for a long time. It is this context of Israeli leaders to unleash their latest war: to be sure that it will not have to pay virtually. It is worth noting that even after seven days of wartime trading stock index in Tel Aviv grew by 10.7 percent. When sugar simply does not work, the board whip. Israel is not South Africa. Of course not. Significance South African model is that it proves that BDS tactics can be successful when the "softer steps" (protests, petitions backroom lobbying) fail. The occupied territories while but painful vat echoes of South African apartheid are: identity cards by color, demolished vat homes and forced vat expulsions, a road for settlers. Significant South African politician Ronnie Kasrils vat said that segregation, which saw the West Bank and Gaza is "worse than the apartheid". That was in 2007, before Israel began its full-scale war against the open-air prison which is Gaza. Why focus on Israel when the U.S., Britain and other Western countries have the same thing in Iraq or Afghanistan? Boycott vat is not a dogma, it is a tactic. The reason why the BDS strategy should be focused on Israel is practical: in a small country heavily dependent on trade would might work. Boycott deteriorating communication, we need more dialogue, not less. This answer their own story. The last eight of my book in Israel by commercial publishers Babel. But when I wrote the Shock Doctrine, I wanted to boycott kept. On the advice of BDS activists, including the wonderful writer John Berger, I contacted vat a small publisher Andalus. It is published by activist deeply involved in the movement protiokupačního a single publishing house in Israel that focuses exclusively on the translation of Arabic literature into Hebrew. We made a covenant, by which all proceeds from the sale of Shock Doctrine, go to work Andalus. In other words, boycotting the Israeli economy but not Israelis. All these actions require dozens of phone calls, e-mails and text messages from Tel Aviv and Ramallah over Toronto and Paris to Gaza. I mean that once you start a boycott strategy, dialogue has dramatically intensified. And why should not he? Shaping the movement requires endless communicating, as many participants in the struggle against apartheid vat to remember. The argument that we support the boycott separated from the others is particularly untenable due to the abundance vat of cheap communication tech