And there are some lines from Macbeth relevant to this -- about having already waded so deep in blood!
I misplaced the pamphlet long ago, but it contained a long list of various 'respectable' Zionists declaring that the massacre of the inhabitants of a village (name forgottedn) in 1947 had been absolutely essential to the establishment of Israel, for otherwise an inadequatre number of Palestinians would have fled, thus throwing dobut on the "country with out inhabitants" that was part of Zionist propaganda.
Carrol
Michael Smith wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 12:45:32 -0400
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > In his interview with Russia Today, Norman said that Israel has
> > probably gone from acting like a lunatic state to being a lunatic
> > state.
>
> If we accept this way of describing the situation -- and I'm not saying
> it's wrong -- then Israel has been a lunatic state for a long time:
> ever since it developed "regional superpower" ambitions, and that may
> well have been a long time ago. It may well have been ab ovo, in fact.
> Lunacy may be a deformation professionnelle of Zionism.
>
> It's always fun to try looking at it from the enemy's point of
> view. What could Israel have done different? They couldn't possibly
> have let the flotilla through. That would entail an implicit admission
> that they don't control everything in their self-appointed sphere
> of influence.
>
> Could they have come up with a kinder, gentler way of stopping
> the flotilla? No doubt. But wouldn't that entail an admission
> too -- namely that the people on the flotilla were entitled
> to some degree of respect, that they were something other
> than vile terrorists and anti-Semites, that Israel might have
> enemies -- and the flotilla folk certainly were enemies, Yahweh
> bless 'em -- who are *human beings* with reasonable motives?
>
> I'm seeing a lot of parallels these days between Israel and the
> New York City police department.
>
> --
>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
> http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com
>
> "Everyone has his favorite passage from the
> Theodosian Code." -- M I Finley
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