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| Lileks on the Gaza Strip |
| 2007-06-15 |
| I noted a buzz comment today that asked whether I might have any opinion about the situation in Gaza, something along the lines of a Nelson Ha ha. I understand the point, but it’s hard to be flippant about what this all means, either this summer or next. We’ve just seen the logical expression of Arafat’s legacy, defeated by people who took his tools and turned them to cause whose potency was trebled by its immersion in religious fundamentalism. In the YouTube clips below, the Beeb reporter says: “Gaza’s secular foundations, undone in a hail of bullets.” Actually, no. They were undone long ago, undone in a hail of rhetoric that praised the bullet, worshipped the bullet, fetishized the finger on the trigger. Meet the old boss, worse than the old boss: I’m sure we’ll be asked to supply foreign aid to these gentlemen, eventually. |
| Posted by:Mike |