Communism killed far more than fascism during the 20th century, and yet there are few if any monuments to the victims of, say, Stalin.

Why is that?

Think about that the next time you fantasize about what I ‘think’.

Don’t be deterred by all the shrill voices here. Your heart is at the right place, their’s is a mere pump.

Once you’ve done that I’d be grateful if you would re-read the posts, and in particular the back ground to the doctor’s plot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot

Richard, then get back to me about euphemisms and demonisation of people.

Farnos wrote:

“Modernity – your point seems a tad pedantic to me, the differential between Zionism and Zionist does not seem that stark to me”

it wasn’t pedantic at all, merely the use of English and the differentiation between an ideology and people, and you need to reread my previous posts to understand what I meant by euphemism

but I’m not going to get irritated by that misreading of my posts, as I appreciate that you may have some reading difficulties, I am going to suggest that you download a browser opera and use its text to speech facility, it will read the posts back to you. It can be downloaded from http://www.opera.com/

To use Opera’s text to speech, go to Tools->Perferences->Advanced->Voice->Details.

Back at the browser window, select a chunk of text via the mouse, then right click and “speak”, the selected text will be spoken back to you via a synthesised voice.

Alternatively, download the free copy of natural reader at http://www.naturalreaders.com/

thus sharing with the people who live there only my human condition

it impresses me a lot to read the content of the comments to this post, and in fact to most posts in blogs

and realize that for most people what is important is just to prove their point, in fact to impose their perspective, without even for a moment measuring their words bearing in mind whether such arguments are likely to contribute positively to the resolution of the problem at stake…

there is something childish in this behaviour. it reminds me of when children play at pretending to be something: like, hei, let’s play indians and cowboys (now children don’t play indians and cowboys anymore, but as I guess that the readers of this blog are adults, I am sure they get the point).

it would be childish if it didn’t include statements like the one that says that the way children from gaza live is not their concern, for instance. when they pass a certain point, these comments become statements of moral relativism. at worse, they become plain hate speech.

naturally, each person is responsible for his/her words.

The conflict is not of course, about who loves their children most but about territory, statehood and resolving an historical injustice. As Margaret Thatcher once said in the House of Commons when Leader of the Opposition “No country can expect to live behind secure and defensible borders if it denies that right to others” Exactly so.
(I am quoting from memory so perhaps there is some obsessive out there with the time to go through Hansard to check the exact words)