# Why doesn't civil disobedience have a stronger appeal among Palestinians? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673 "2009-01-23T18:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673/41 "2009-01-24T02:46:09Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > That’s what happens when you think with your dick. You end up stepping on it with your golf shoes. Ask Bush… > > -XT Bush didn’t think with his dick. His Dick thought for him. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673/42 "2009-01-24T04:00:22Z")
Good point. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673/43 "2009-01-24T04:34:26Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > …my point is that [a prospective] Gandhi might …become a civil rights lawyer… Heh. Just like the original. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673/44 "2009-01-24T05:17:47Z")
> [@sweeteviljesus](#): > > I also noticed that none of the people mentioned was a Muslim. Sari Nusseibeh, who was among several people I mentioned in that thread, is a Muslim. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673/45 "2009-01-24T17:46:47Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > They can’t, though…that’s the thing. You know I’m pro-Israeli, and that I tend to take the Israeli side in these debates, but the Palestinians don’t have freedom of movement. Israeli checkpoints block their freedom of movement, as do the curfews. I will grant you that, and Israel ought to either leave the West Bank or permanently annexx parts of it (settlements) and mark its boundaries, leaving the WB outside of it. I was thinking more of _Gaza_, which was a mistake on my end. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673/46 "2009-01-24T19:40:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Heh. Just like the original. Right but I meant without a personal cause. The guy from the upper-west side would be another carpet bagging bleeding heart leftist if we tried to go be the hero for another people. People who grow up on the upper west side are arguably among the least oppressed people on the planet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-civil-disobedience-have-a-stronger-appeal-among-palestinians/482673.md?page=2)