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Max Blumenthal: Hidden Depths of the Israel-Palestine War: A Journey Beyond Media Narratives.
Col. Douglas Macgregor: How Israel is Isolating the US.
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Geredigeerd citaat uit Buergemeister (2018), Gaza and the Language of Genocide. ISBN: 978 0463441169 (vet en cursief toegevoegd).
%% citaat %% : The objective of this tome is to recognize the features that are common to reports about Gaza in the months of March, April and May 2018 so as to get a rough idea of what actually happened. It also aims to clarify by eliminating what Wittgenstein refers to as “nonsense” (Unsinn) and “empty wheels” (leerlaufende Räder).
Theory is vitally important. To quote Einstein when speaking to Heisenberg: “But from the basic point of view, it is quite wrong to want to base a theory only on observable quantities; because it is in fact exactly the opposite. Only the theory decides what one can observe.”
Four theories will be adumbrated by this book: 1) that the West doesn’t abide by its own moral and legal standards, 2) that economic interests, especially arms, gas and oil, play a key role in events, 3) that Israel was created by the West for strategic reasons and fourthly: 4) that Zionism has been a means to this end.
Not only has Zionism been a useful tool of imperialism, Islamic Fundamentalism has been one too. Few ideologies have served Western interests better than Islamic Fundamentalism. Thus one should not be surprised to discover that Jamal Eddine al-Afghani, the ideological great-great-grandfather of Osama bin Laden worked for British Intelligence.
The dichotomy between “Western democracy” and Islamic Fundamentalism is a false one for a number of reasons, not least of which is the fact that the West is anything other than democratic. The EU is the most obvious example of this but the voting irregularities in recent UK and US elections are also proof perfect. In addition to this, as John Stockwell pointed out in 1988: America has long been a one party state with an A Team and a B Team.
The aim of this book is not to provide definitive knowledge. Schopenhauer wrote: “Everything objective is imagination, hence appearance, a phenomenon of the brain.” % % einde citaat % %