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Local Journalist-in-Residence Explains Context of Destruction of Lebanon |
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by David Green
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22 Aug 2006
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A recent journalist-in-residence at UIUC has brilliantly explained the historical context of the destruction of Lebanon and the collateral deaths of 1,000 civilians in the following paragraph in The New Republic. |
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A recent journalist-in-residence at UIUC has brilliantly explained the historical context of the destruction of Lebanon and the collateral deaths of 1,000 civilians in the following paragraph in The New Republic.
WHY ISRAEL FIGHTS: Drawing the Line
Yossi Klein Halevi
07.26.06
“Three times in the last century, the Jewish people has found itself on the front line against totalitarian ideologies with aspirations to rule the world, and which defined the Jewish people as its primary obstacle in fulfilling that goal. For Nazism, the Jew was not only the source of racial impurity but inventor of conscience, crippling humanity's survival instincts in an amoral world. For Soviet communism, the Jew was the source of capitalism, and Zionism the front line of imperialism. And now, for fundamentalist Islam, the Jew is the satanic enemy, and the Jewish state an abomination against God that must be destroyed....â€
Quiz:
1. Which of the children above represents the Nazi threat to destroy Jews and rule the world?
2. Which represents the Soviet will to destroy the “front line of imperialism?â€
3. Which represents fundamentalist Islam’s belief in the Jewish state as an "abomination against God"?
4. Which died in the village where Jesus is believed to have turned water into wine, and where no evidence of Hezbollah fighters was discovered by Human Rights Watch? (see first link below)
Extra Credit:
1. Which nationalist ideology accepted and encouraged the Nazis’ assumption that Jews should not live with Gentiles, and were parasites in Europe?
2. Which future Prime Minister of Israel proposed a Zionist collaboration with the Third Reich to the benefit of both?
3. Which Communist State cast a critical vote to bring the State of Israel into being at the United Nations in 1947?
4. Which Middle Eastern state is now at the front line of neoconservative global imperialism?
5. Which holocaust-denying historian, while no conceivable threat to Jews, receives an immense amount of satisfaction when Jewish neoconservatives propose that the U.S. and/or Israel attack Iran, thus fomenting hatred for Jews in the Muslim world? (see second link below)
6. Which theocratic state has the greatest and fastest growing rate of economic inequality between rich and poor in the developed world due to neoliberal economic policies and neoconservative militarism? |
See also:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/22/lebano14061.htm
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060710&s=halevi071206
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