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Mission accomplished. The US and Israel were now joined at the hip on the basis of a lunatic paradigm, the “War on Terror” Netanyahu and his friends developed as a way, first and foremost, of pursuing Revisionist Zionism’s expansionist dreams.

If there is any doubt take a look at the video, with accompanying English transcript (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dLTOd3V-Y), of Netanyahu holding court among West Bank settlers and bragging about this ability to manipulate the American into doing his bidding. The clip was filmed mere weeks before we signed on to his “all for one and one for all” dream of endless war on people who are rightly his enemies but not necessarily ours.

Future historians will marvel at these developments and wonder how the world’s most powerful nation allowed it to happen without any serious public debate or reaction.

7 November 2010

Necessary Melancholy?

Not long ago, I read an interesting interview in the Uruguayan press with the Irish writer Mary Kenny. In it, she speaks about reclaiming the right to be sad in a culture that has increasing come to see a person’s lack of happiness in pathological terms.