Gideon Levy replies to the open letter from A.B. Yehoshua. It is a dignified response. He doesn't mention the most shocking detail of Yehoshua's letter–the conceit that "proportionality" should take into account the sea of millions of Arabs in back of the dead in Gaza, whereas there are no Jews behind the Jews of Israel. (Yehoshua: "On the face of it, one could answer you cynically by
saying that when there will be two hundred million Jews in the Middle
East it will be permissible to think in moral terms about comparing the
number of victims on each side. But that is, of course, a debased
argument.")
And here is Uri Avnery, pursuing the idea that it is possible for whole communities and public bodies to be seized with fits of insanity–and that this is what has happened to Israel. He speaks frankly, as no American commentator has, about the astonishing, open, reiterated explanation of the war by Israelis as a necessary proof of their Spartan manliness and tonic infusion of self-confidence after the humiliation of the fight with Hezbollah in 2006. Bad luck for the people of Gaza that Gaza 2009 was really about Lebanon 2006.
Avnery says he believes the Gaza assault did not factor in the coming of Obama; that the date of his inauguration was an unforeseen obstacle to the war makers– rather than that the war aimed to discipline him and to push his administration into a corner as early as possible. Maybe Avnery believes this wishfully; as we all should try to.
[This post plagiarized from a well-read friend]
Well,they are monsters. So is the US congress and government. I fact congress may be worse. The Israeli are paranoid psychopaths, where as our congress are just cold calculating politicans who will allow a genocide for domestic political advantage and campaign cash from the uber zionist.
Hard to conceive that the the Israeli elite powers did not factor in the coming of the Black Saint. Seems common sense would dictate
that Israel regime decided to get in as many planted facts on the ground as possible B4 Obama took orifice. Nothing new here. Goes the settlements, so goes the Gaza policy–has not changed in 40 years. Gaza babies are simply expendables–the desired ends simply justifies the means. The only real issue in terms of any change is: Will USA goys keep going along with the plan? In the absence of any effective Fourth Estate, look like it. Kudos to those
targeting goyishkopfs.
I am pleased to see that I am not the only one to highlight insanity (thus in need of therapy) and hegemonic masculinity as important factors in the transformation of Jews into Israelis, who have little in common with actual Jews.
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Survival Instinct or Jewish Paranoia? [or PTSD - JLD]
by Avigail Abarbanel
http://www.avigailabarbanel.me.uk/survival-instinct.html