tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post5292474144267322327..comments2024-01-25T12:33:03.851+10:30Comments on Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is: DID ISRAEL BACK RECENT ‘CHALLENGE’ TO HAMAS IN THE GAZA STRIP?Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-75134188184229340272009-08-19T17:35:50.207+09:302009-08-19T17:35:50.207+09:30Hey Lats,
There was an interesting piece in The A...Hey Lats,<br /><br />There was an interesting piece in The Australian today about criminalising comparisons between Israel and Germany of WWII:<br /><br />http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25949702-7583,00.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-69448117305446904142009-08-17T12:07:46.912+09:302009-08-17T12:07:46.912+09:30From Orwell's celebrated novel 1984:
".....From Orwell's celebrated novel 1984:<br /><br /><i>"... the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these<br />truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted <br />among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government...</i><br /><br />It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word 'crimethink'."<br /><br />In precisely the same way, "the confiscation of people's land, the theft of their water, the demolition of their homes, the destruction of their crops, the denial of employment, education and health care, the machine-gunning of their children" is tidily summed up in the single word "anti-Semitism".Bibi's Lunatic Fringenoreply@blogger.com