Category Archives: Ideaology

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask

So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in “purity of arms”. But why should we be surprised?

Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead – almost all civilians, most of them children and women – in Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700 Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them children, at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were ordered from their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an Israeli helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment and Lebanese invasion, almost all of them civilians?
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Greenspan admits ‘flaw’ in ideology

Greenspan said he was in a ‘state of shocked disbelief’ [AFP]

“Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made?”

Greenspan replied: “Yes I found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is, but I’ve been very distressed by that fact.” Continue reading

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