[lbo-talk] Benny Morris

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 11 09:20:52 PST 2004


Brad DeLong wrote:


>I would like to report that Israeli historian Benny Morris has just
>freaked me out totally:
>
>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/380986.html
>
>That is all.

Amazing. From the interview:


>Therefore, from my point of view, the need to establish this state
>in this place overcame the injustice that was done to the
>Palestinians by uprooting them."
>[Q] And morally speaking, you have no problem with that deed?
>"That is correct. Even the great American democracy could not have
>been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are
>cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel
>acts that are committed in the course of history."

And a few screens later:


>There is a deep problem in Islam. It's a world whose values are
>different. A world in which human life doesn't have the same value
>as it does in the West, in which freedom, democracy, openness and
>creativity are alien. A world that makes those who are not part of
>the camp of Islam fair game.

So you gotta kill and expel the lower types so that the better sorts can flourish.

Doug



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