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    • 25 Feb 09
    • 5:33 pm

    If the "left" is more vocal about the crimes of Israel, it's because they are there. It's not some latent anti-semitism or any other anti-jewishness. Accusing Mugabe of war crimes doesn't make you a racist, does it? The pattern for what is going on has been laid out long ago. And it has been carried out ruthlessly over decades. Many great minds around 1948 have warned for this, people like Einstien, Lilienthal, Arendt. In my view is more like latent or overt xenophobia in the western world that has let this happen. "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying …

    Posted to Israel, Gaza and the Left
    • 26 Feb 09
    • 7:33 pm

    "You have two people: one a murderer, one a victim. You say: let's investigate. What's there to investigate? We didn't touch them, we left Gaza, we supported them. We didn't touch them. What do you want to investigate? It's clear." Shimon Peres in an interview on Australian TV http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/24/shimon-peres-interview-how-do-you-sleep-at-night/ That's the president of Israel speaking, not some obscure tribal chief. Where did we hear this kind of logic before? Especially the repeated "we didn't touch them" is touching.

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