jagalman
22-09-2007, 10:35 PM
Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem popularized the concept of the “banality of evil.”
It says that great evils are not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accept the premises of their state, and therefore participate with the view that their actions were normal.
The “banality of evil” in israel is now complete…
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The israeli cabinet has voted to declare the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity.”
This allows israel to cut off the already meager supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel from Gaza.
Cuntoleezza Rice immediately approved the measure.
Gaza’s 1.5 million (mostly refugee) Palestinians live in the world's largest open-air prison, with israelis constantly blasting them from the perimeter.
After the israelis declared Palestinian victims a "hostile entity," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave a tepid comment. "Such a step would be contrary to israel's obligations towards the civilian population under international humanitarian and human rights law.”
The European Union, said this…"The [European] Commission hopes that Israel will not find it necessary to implement the measures for which the [cabinet] decisions set the framework yesterday."
It hopes that israel will not find it necessary to cut off water supplies to 1.5 million people of whom half are children.
WOW!
The "international community" has truly become inured to the extermination of the Palestinian people.
Yossi Alpher, a former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University (and once a special adviser to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak) argued coolly this week that Israel should assassinate the democratically-elected leaders of Hamas. Alpher said this will "decapitate the Hamas leadership, both military and civilian."
True, Alpher admitted, there would be a possible downside: "israel would again undoubtedly pay a price in terms of international condemnation, particularly if innocent civilians were killed," and because "israel would presumably be targeting legally elected Hamas officials who won a fair election."
Nevertheless, he said such condemnation would be quickly forgotten. Thus, "This is "an option worth reconsidering."
NOTE: Alpher said this in the European Union-funded online newsletter Bitterlemons, which he co-founded along with former Palestinian Authority minister Ghassan Khatib.
What journal would publish a call by a Palestinian -- or anyone else -- to murder the israeli prime minister?
Alpher does not worry that he will be denied visas to travel to conferences in the European Union, or denied invitations to American universities. Indeed, any attempt to exclude Alpher will be cast as an attack on academic freedom!
In a September 6 blog posting, an advisor to Rudolph Giuliani argued for "shutting off utilities to the Palestinian Authority as well as a host of other measures, such as permitting no transportation in the PA of people or goods beyond basic necessities, and razing villages from which attacks are launched."
This, Giuliani’s advisor stated, would, "impress Palestinians with the israeli will to survive, and so bring closer their eventual acceptance of the Jewish state." (See: "Giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages," by Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, 14 September 2007)
The latest israeli government declaration comes as Palestinians this week marked the 25th anniversary of the massacres in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, in which the Israeli occupation army and political leadership were full participants.
The israelis no longer need to deny their culpability for genocide.
After all, the "international community" doesn’t even notice it.
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The zionist “banality of evil” is complete.
Source
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m36507&hd=&size=1&l=e
It says that great evils are not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accept the premises of their state, and therefore participate with the view that their actions were normal.
The “banality of evil” in israel is now complete…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The israeli cabinet has voted to declare the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity.”
This allows israel to cut off the already meager supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel from Gaza.
Cuntoleezza Rice immediately approved the measure.
Gaza’s 1.5 million (mostly refugee) Palestinians live in the world's largest open-air prison, with israelis constantly blasting them from the perimeter.
After the israelis declared Palestinian victims a "hostile entity," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave a tepid comment. "Such a step would be contrary to israel's obligations towards the civilian population under international humanitarian and human rights law.”
The European Union, said this…"The [European] Commission hopes that Israel will not find it necessary to implement the measures for which the [cabinet] decisions set the framework yesterday."
It hopes that israel will not find it necessary to cut off water supplies to 1.5 million people of whom half are children.
WOW!
The "international community" has truly become inured to the extermination of the Palestinian people.
Yossi Alpher, a former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University (and once a special adviser to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak) argued coolly this week that Israel should assassinate the democratically-elected leaders of Hamas. Alpher said this will "decapitate the Hamas leadership, both military and civilian."
True, Alpher admitted, there would be a possible downside: "israel would again undoubtedly pay a price in terms of international condemnation, particularly if innocent civilians were killed," and because "israel would presumably be targeting legally elected Hamas officials who won a fair election."
Nevertheless, he said such condemnation would be quickly forgotten. Thus, "This is "an option worth reconsidering."
NOTE: Alpher said this in the European Union-funded online newsletter Bitterlemons, which he co-founded along with former Palestinian Authority minister Ghassan Khatib.
What journal would publish a call by a Palestinian -- or anyone else -- to murder the israeli prime minister?
Alpher does not worry that he will be denied visas to travel to conferences in the European Union, or denied invitations to American universities. Indeed, any attempt to exclude Alpher will be cast as an attack on academic freedom!
In a September 6 blog posting, an advisor to Rudolph Giuliani argued for "shutting off utilities to the Palestinian Authority as well as a host of other measures, such as permitting no transportation in the PA of people or goods beyond basic necessities, and razing villages from which attacks are launched."
This, Giuliani’s advisor stated, would, "impress Palestinians with the israeli will to survive, and so bring closer their eventual acceptance of the Jewish state." (See: "Giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages," by Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, 14 September 2007)
The latest israeli government declaration comes as Palestinians this week marked the 25th anniversary of the massacres in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, in which the Israeli occupation army and political leadership were full participants.
The israelis no longer need to deny their culpability for genocide.
After all, the "international community" doesn’t even notice it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The zionist “banality of evil” is complete.
Source
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m36507&hd=&size=1&l=e