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Orwell on Gaza
Over at TPMCafe, Israel Policy Forum's M.J. Rosenberg spotlights a telling quotation from George Orwell that is directly relevant to the current furor over the attack on Gaza. Money sentence:
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage -- torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians -- which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side."
Orwell also said "In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." Kudos to M.J.: a truth-teller, and quiet revolutionary.
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speaking of revolutionary act
i think putting mondoweiss at the top of your blogroll is a revolutionary act.
you have no idea how many people you've rattled with that little act.
i know you didn't mean it like that.
wink wink.
great pick with tikun olam as well. though the philosophy of tikun olam - we must restore G-D who is broken into a million little pieces - is hella idealistic and doesn't fit your world view.