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Edward Said in The Nation on the Palestinians, of course. He hits all the bases:
The Jews control the media and American foreign policy:
" The monstrous transformation of an entire people by a formidable and feared propaganda machine into little more than militants and terrorists has allowed not just Israel's military but its fleet of writers and defenders to efface a terrible history of injustice, suffering and abuse in order to destroy the civil existence of the Palestinian people with impunity."
The ever-popular evasion of historical reality:
"In 1948 Palestinians lost 78 percent of Palestine. In 1967 they lost the remaining 22 percent. Now the international community must lay upon Israel the obligation to accept the principle of real, as opposed to fictional, partition, and to accept the principle of limiting Israel's extraterritorial claims, those absurd, biblically based pretensions and laws that have so far allowed it to override another people."
This, of course, neglects to mention why the Palestinians lost those territories... because they lost wars in the course of trying to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews.
It just makes me mad, that's all.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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