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August 07, 2006 The Hizbolleft >From a report in <http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9416> Socialist Worker of Saturday's demonstration in London: While the march encompassed all those opposed to Israel's aggression, those speakers who declared their solidarity with the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine received huge cheers. You see what one word can achieve? The word in this case is 'resistance'. And what it does is draw attention away from the fact that one of the organizations being referred to under this description, namely Hizbollah, is sworn to the destruction of Israel, propagates <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah#Views> hatred of Jews and is supported by a regime whose President has likewise called for Israel's destruction and deals in Holocaust denial. Well, you'll be familiar with and bored by the standard moves: 'just because you're a critic of Israel, it doesn't make you an anti-Semite'; 'but being a critic of Israel doesn't necessarily mean you aren't one'; and so forth. Something I know with some confidence, however, is that there was a time on the left when expressing support for a quite explicitly anti-Semitic organization would have been a matter of disgrace, of shame. Now it can not only be done but done with enthusiasm - and without any supporting explanation. It's just part of the <http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2006/07/hymning_hizboll.html%20> normal spectrum of left opinion. How things do move on. Posted by Norm at 06:19 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
