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Titolo: How the Guardian learned to love the bomb

Moral abdication as principled thought: How the Guardian learned to
love the bomb
by Adam Levick
 
The latest Guardian editorial on Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear
bomb, "Iran: bolting the stable door", Nov. 9, can be summed up by
these passages from their polemic:
 
    "It really is time for Iran to drop the pretence that it is not on
that path."
 
    "It really is time to drop the pretence that Iran can be deflected
from its nuclear path."
 
     "It really is time for the United States to recognise that there
is no military solution."
 
    "An attack on Iran would of course be madness."
 
    "And it really is time for both America and Israel to put aside
the idea that they can stop history with high explosives, cyber-
attacks, sanctions and assassinations."
 
So, to sum up: Israel and the US - not to mention relatively moderate
Arab Sunni allies who similarly fear Iranian hegemony in the region -
should not only accept the inevitability of an a nuclear Iran and
completely rule out the use of force to prevent it, but even cease non-
military pressure, such as economic sanctions and cyber-attacks.
 
Israel should just accept the inevitability that an enemy sworn to its
destruction will acquire the means to carry out such designs.
 
We've often argued that one of the defining characteristics of
Guardian Left thought is the condescending paternalism towards the
Jewish state, as well as tendency to see Israel, the Palestinians, and
the greater Arab world, not as state actors engaged in deadly serious
conflict but, rather, as mere abstractions.
 
This paternalism is often expressed - both by the Guardian and other
sage far left commentators who truly see their mission as "saving
Israel from itself" - in the implicit, and often explicit, suggestion
that Israel is too crippled by irrational fears to make sober
political decisions.
 
Indeed, the most telling passage in the Guardian editorial is this:
 
    "But both Israel and Iran have made a habit of distracting
themselves from their most difficult problems by puffing up the
spectre of external enemies."
 
Leaving aside their signature moral equivalence, such as passage
accurately conveys the Guardian's moral indifference to the
unrestrained malice of Israel's enemies.
 
Evidently, the Jewish state puffs up the spectre of the Hamas regime
committed to Israel's destruction.
 
And, Israel evidently puffs up the spectre of Hezbollah, the heavily
armed, Iranian-backed, Islamist movement - committed both to the
Israel's destruction and to the murder of Jews all over the world -
which increasingly claims more of Lebanon under its yoke.
 
Regarding the latter, In 2002, Hezbollah's Sheik Nasrallah was quoted
by the Lebanon Daily Star as encouraging Jews to move to Israel. "If
they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after
them worldwide," he said.
 
A previous Hezbollah statement was just as clear:
 
    "It is an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the
death of the last Jew on earth."
 
To the Guardian, the Jewish state's fears that Hezbollah's sponsors in
Tehran repeatedly express similar genocidal aims is either an
expression of the paranoia and profound pathos which informs Israeli
political debate, or mere hyperbole and political theatrics.
 
Richard Landes characterizes "liberal cognitive egocentrism" as the
projection of good faith and fair-mindedness onto others, the
assumption that “others” share the same human values, that everyone
prefers positive sum interactions.
 
    “I’ll give up trying to dominate and trust you to give it up as
well,” “if I’m nice to you, you will be nice in return,”
 
This is the fundamental moral fallacy which inspires such Guardian
editorials, and, moreover, which increasingly excludes Israel from the
progressive imaginative sympathy.
 
Fortunately, unlike through most of history, Jews are no longer
completely vulnerable to such hostility and indifference.
 
The moral imperative of Jewish sovereignty, and the projection of
Jewish power, has never been clearer.
 
http://cifwatch.com/2011/11/10/moral-abdication-as-principled-thought-how-the-guardian-learned-to-love-the-bomb/
 

 sacrificio umano con un montonicidio.
 
uhm, che ne direste di un blog sulle cazzate di Gilles ?
 

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Penso che invece che perpetuarle, sia meglio lasciarle morire, tristi e
sole come sono vissute, le cazzate autocancellanti del guardone
alcolizzato.
 
Ha scelto di autoeliminarsi. Tutto sommato è meglio per tutti, compreso il
povero Giles (con una elle sola)
 
 
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Io non gufo l'Inter. Le spacco le corna.

  (con una elle sola)
 
ah ecco, grazie.
Sono seriamente interessato a sentire altre opinioni. Mail valida,
eh.