tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post6799358712466269050..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Avnery Takes Us For a RideMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-68955622186981128882017-09-13T19:09:07.592+10:002017-09-13T19:09:07.592+10:00Nothing escapes your eagle-eye, G. With your clari...Nothing escapes your eagle-eye, G. With your clarification factored in, we can at least give Hitchens credit for getting Palestine/Israel right, but Hitchens' stance on Iraq, as you point out, is a different matter entirely.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-43482214469834148332017-09-13T18:09:56.290+10:002017-09-13T18:09:56.290+10:00I have read your 27/2/14 quote from Hitchens, MERC...I have read your 27/2/14 quote from Hitchens, MERC. As you said, it does a good demolition job on the Avnery quote. One thing that Hitchens does not say is that where the man landed was not by chance but was premeditated. Zionists targeted Palestine for many years before WWII with significant migrations starting in the 1890s. Additionally, they had worked to prevent European Jews migrating to anywhere else but Palestine. A better analogy would be that, for long before the fire started, the man in the upper floor had been throwing the furniture down at the passer-by, and persuading neighbours to throw things at that particular passer-by and no-one else. Makes me think of the intolerable situation of Palestinians in Hebron. <br /><br />Incidentally, as far as I am concerned Hitchens lost all credibility of WMD in Iraq. Grapplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967100340986309879noreply@blogger.com