Was just on the receiving end if one of those "But intifada just means shaking off!" tweets."
Yes. It does. And Mein Kampf just means My Struggle. What's your point?
@GileadIni
it's actually terribly revealing. the pns are not the little guy. they're part of a great beast (arab-muslim nation) shaking off the israeli fly. the israeli-palestinian conflict as so many call it is actually just focusing on one small part of the great beast doing the shrugging
@GileadIni
Intifada may include acceptable or unacceptable acts. Like slave revolts in the US. In some of them, entire White families were slaughtered.
There's something deeper than names - one needs to recognize who's the privileged opressor and who is the disenfranchised oppressed.
@GileadIni
I had a university lecturer tell us that Sharia simply means "path to the watering hole", so there's nothing scary about it. She seems to be a convert to Sufism. She's now a writer for Australia's version of The Daily Show, with "expertise in Islam".