Australia Post Accused of Making Racist Stamps

[icyfroth]

Prominent pro-Palestine blog Australians for Palestine is calling for people to boycott the 60c and $2.60 stamps that feature the Australian Light Horse at the Battle of Beersheba against Turkey in 1917.

Activist Sonja Karkar said she purchased the stamp and "received far more than I bargained for – nothing less, would you believe, than a dollop of Israeli propaganda".

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/06/20/17/26/australia-post-stamps-racist-say-activists#gigy...

Ms Karkar said the stamp is inaccurate as the town of Beersheeba was a Palestinian town at the time.

"This is a really disturbing and incorrect remark," Ms Karkar wrote.

"It is insulting to the memory of Palestinians who were terrorised into leaving their city Beersheba when the newly-created Israel captured it in 1948 and who have never been allowed to return to their homes."

Does anyone know what the Hebrew writing says?

And why is the issue of these stamps jointly with Israel?

[kilroy_is_here]

This is getting ridiculous , if they don't stop accusing Australians of being racist for every little thing that we do, they will wake up one day & find that australians are so sick of being told they racist that they just give in a be racist 

[19501209]

The Hebrew on the stamp says 'Australian Horsemen'.

There is nothing untoward in Australia issuing a stamp in conjunction with another country with which it has normal relations. It has done this on a number of occasions.

Sonia Karkar has politicised this stamp issue as a way of attracting attention to the Palestinian cause. It comes out of desperation on her part because of the on-going plight of Palestinians unwilling to strike a peace deal with Israel because the terms don't suit them. She has falsely trumped up the charge of racism to attract attention.

She exhibits the typical misdirected efforts of Palestinian supporters aggrieved by the situation that the Palestinians find themselves in today. If the Palestinians had accepted a state in the UN partition plan of 1947 then we would have not seen the ongoing conflict that has unfolded since, where Israel's Arab neighbours have tried repeatedly through wars to exterminate the state of Israel.

eBay is not really the place to have this kind of political discussion and Karkar has stirred up this stupid controversy to rally those members of our community who don't want Israel to exist as a Jewish state. We need to move on.

[icyfroth]

hmmm - is this a political discussion?

If yes, I don't see this political discussion as any different to any other political discussion. And politics are discussed quite freely and vigorously here.

[mr.glow]

both the U.N. and the U.S. have never really come close to a peace deal in the middle east, the reason is that the arabs want to kill the jews. simple as that.

don't know what that women is going on about when most of the arab nations don't even recognise Israel as a country. [talk about a immature, childish people group]

we should stop all foreign aid to these people and instead send them all free anger management cources.

[icyfroth]

Why does everyone want to kill the jews?

[best.buys]

it's a spiritual thing icy, which most can't understand as we are here in the west living in a secular lifestyle

[icyfroth]

what's a spiritual thing?

[best.buys]

spiritual thing? its why throughout history the jews have been targeted. they are God's chosen people.

[the_great_she_elephant]

 If the Palestinians had accepted a state in the UN partition plan of 1947 then we would have not seen the ongoing conflict that has unfolded since,

http://www.kitezh.com/texts/parker.htm

I wonder if the local inhabitants of these regions of Australia would have 'accepted' having a Jewish stated imposed on them.

[icyfroth]

spiritual thing? its why throughout history the jews have been targeted. they are God's chosen people.

ok.