Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?
If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.
Mots clés united-states europe socialism terrorism soviet-union israel third-world united-nations leftism cold-war 1980s mediterranean-sea caspar-weinberger george-p-shultz israel-united-states-relations national-missile-defense presidency-of-ronald-reagan ronald-reagan
Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.
Noam ChomskyMots clés democracy united-states dissent terrorism israel consensus iran 2009 israeli-palestinian-conflict hamas israel-united-states-relations gaza-war
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.
Noam ChomskyMots clés united-states israel 2009 war-crimes israeli-palestinian-conflict israel-united-states-relations gaza-war gaza-strip
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?
Christopher HitchensMots clés war united-states separation-of-church-and-state secularism israel palestine united-states-constitution palestinians israeli-palestinian-conflict israelis united-states-congress scotus holy-war israel-united-states-relations israeli-settlement us-department-of-justice us-treasury-department west-bank
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