Green Energy
Like other antisemites -- ooops: Israel-critics -- Norm Finkelstein and Ted "those Palestinians who have resorted to necessary killing have been right to try to free their people" Honderich come to mind -- Mearsheimer and Walt had no problem finding a respected major publisher, not some pokey leftist hole-in-the-wall rat shop, in Germany.
That is because stuff like that sells like hot cakes here.
The publisher Campus tell us in their blurb how it is:
But Liza comes up with an even jucier little morsel...
Read the rest at Roncesvalles.
- Innocents Abroad Or Fool's Paradise
There is a major brouhaha going on among "Islam critics" because Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have announced that they may attend the Anti-Islamization Congress of the German Pro-Köln movement in May. Invectives are bandied about liberally and there...
- Exit The Editrix
I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against...
- Pavlovian Dogs
From IRIS. Israel is shown in blue. Mauritania, Sudan and Somalia are somewhat cut off at the edge of the map. Germans are suffering from an acquired reflex: Each and every time the word "Israel" resounds, they start slobbering and salivating. The tiny...
- The Vienna Waltz
The Germans are being courted by a new suitor, and his words are sweet music to their ears: BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Germans they should no longer allow themselves to be held prisoner by a sense of guilt over the...
- So Now We Have Tony Judt With A Plea For Understanding Of Walt And Mearsheimer
Tony Judt is the director of the Remarque Institute at New York University and the author of "Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945." Claiming that Walt and Mearsheimer in their clearly 'smelly' (as Mr. Hitchens puts it) paper, have raised valid...
Green Energy
Germans Are Traditionalists
Like other antisemites -- ooops: Israel-critics -- Norm Finkelstein and Ted "those Palestinians who have resorted to necessary killing have been right to try to free their people" Honderich come to mind -- Mearsheimer and Walt had no problem finding a respected major publisher, not some pokey leftist hole-in-the-wall rat shop, in Germany. That is because stuff like that sells like hot cakes here.
The publisher Campus tell us in their blurb how it is:
Since it came into existence, Israel is supported politically and economically by the USA and -- for understandable reasons -- by Germany. But unlimited solidarity is dwindling. Now two experts are breaking a taboo by well-founded criticism and are kicking off a long-overdue debate.As Liza puts it:
Wow! Five lies in just two sentences: There never has been an "unlimited solidarity" with Israel, the "two experts" are in spite of their academic positions nothing but demagogues, the "well-founded criticism is a de-facto new edition of the "Protocols", the alleged "taboo" is non-existent and always was and the "long-overdue debate" don't need to be kicked off becuse it'a alive and thriving for decades now. But because the credo of those who "criticise" Israel is mainstream-compliant in spite of, respectivevely because their followers consider themselves a oppressed minority, truth can take a break without any harm done to the reputation of a academic publisher.I specifically like the cute-ism "understandable reasons" in the Campus blurb. It's really fun to see what wrenching Germans are able to muster just to NOT having to say "murder of the Jews". And of course, had that "blooper of Germany history" not happened, we could now all uninhibitedly kick up our antisemitic heels. How very irritating!
But Liza comes up with an even jucier little morsel...
Read the rest at Roncesvalles.
- Innocents Abroad Or Fool's Paradise
There is a major brouhaha going on among "Islam critics" because Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have announced that they may attend the Anti-Islamization Congress of the German Pro-Köln movement in May. Invectives are bandied about liberally and there...
- Exit The Editrix
I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against...
- Pavlovian Dogs
From IRIS. Israel is shown in blue. Mauritania, Sudan and Somalia are somewhat cut off at the edge of the map. Germans are suffering from an acquired reflex: Each and every time the word "Israel" resounds, they start slobbering and salivating. The tiny...
- The Vienna Waltz
The Germans are being courted by a new suitor, and his words are sweet music to their ears: BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Germans they should no longer allow themselves to be held prisoner by a sense of guilt over the...
- So Now We Have Tony Judt With A Plea For Understanding Of Walt And Mearsheimer
Tony Judt is the director of the Remarque Institute at New York University and the author of "Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945." Claiming that Walt and Mearsheimer in their clearly 'smelly' (as Mr. Hitchens puts it) paper, have raised valid...