Paul Craig Roberts
RINF Alternative News
RINF Alternative News
Readers are asking for my take on the
Israel-Gaza situation, and, believe it or not, Oxford University’s
famous debating society, the Oxford Union, invited me to debate the
issue.
I replied to the Oxford Union that I was
unprepared to take responsibility for the Palestinians without
undergoing the extensive preparation that an Oxford Union debate
deserves and requires. Unless things have changed since my time at
Oxford, one prevails in a Union debate by anticipating every argument of
one’s opponent and smashing the arguments with humor and wit. Facts
seldom, if ever, carry the day, and sometimes not even wit and humor if
the audience is already committed to the outcome by the prevailing
propaganda. There is no time or energy in my overfull schedule for such
preparation plus time away and jet lag.
Moreover, I am not an expert on Israel’s
conquest and occupation of Palestine. I know more than most people. I
was rescued from Zionist propaganda by Israeli historians, such as Ilan
Pappe, by Jewish intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky and Norman
Finkelstein, by documentary film makers, such as John Pilger, by Israeli
journalists such as Uri Avnery and the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,
and by an Israeli houseguest who is an Israeli member of an Israeli
peace group that opposes Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes,
villages, and orchards in order to build apartment blocks for settlers.
There is only one take on the current Israeli
slaughter of Palestinians, which Netanyahu, the demonic Israeli leader,
declares will be a “protracted campaign” this time. We are witnessing
yet again Israeli war crimes that are supported by the Great Moral West
that is so concerned about the deaths of 290 passengers on MH-17 that
they are about to drive the world to a major war, while Palestinian
casualties pile up so fast that they are out of date by the time you put
the numbers in a column. So far more than 1,200 deaths, with injuries
to 2,000 children, 1,170 women, and 257 elderly.
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