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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:13 AM
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Israel's righteous fury and its victims in Gaza
Edited on Sat Jan-03-09 02:16 AM by Ken Burch
Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 2 January 2009

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10100.shtml

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"My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice -- even louder than the one heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel is engulfed once more with righteous fury that translates into destructive policies in the Gaza Strip. This appalling self-justification for the inhumanity and impunity is not just annoying, it is a subject worth dwelling on, if one wants to understand the international immunity for the massacre that rages on in Gaza.

It is based first and foremost on sheer lies transmitted with a newspeak reminiscent of darker days in 1930s Europe. Every half an hour a news bulletin on the radio and television describes the victims of Gaza as terrorists and Israel's massive killings of them as an act of self-defense. Israel presents itself to its own people as the righteous victim that defends itself against a great evil. The academic world is recruited to explain how demonic and monstrous is the Palestinian struggle, if it is led by Hamas. These are the same scholars who demonized the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an earlier era and delegitimized his Fatah movement during the second Palestinian intifada."
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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:28 AM
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1. Excellent article. Thank you Ken.
In Israel, much like in America, the roots of national crimes against others are found in a set of widely-held, self-aggrandizing, and horribly confused nationalist delusions.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:32 AM
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2. If we're to survive as a moral people, we have to abandon, forever
The notion that we have the RIGHT to conquer.
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