Iraq + war on terrorism + Middle East conflict + critical perspectives
>for example from A Lethal Non Sequitur
On July 16, while attending the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Condoleezza Rice astutely observed, "I don't think there is anyone here who would say Israel does not have the right to defend itself." Quite so. And not only is this right accepted by the G8, but I have yet to find a single case in which anyone with any sense seriously presses the argument that Israel does not have the right to defend itself.
In the absence of such a counter-argument, it becomes apparent that the assertion, Israel has the right to defend itself, is really a kind of Trojan horse; a truth that deftly transports a lie. The lie is that by killing hundreds of Lebanese civilians and destroying the country's infrastructure, Israel is engaged in nothing more than an act of self-defense.Those who defend Israel's onslaught on Lebanon argue that while the loss of innocent life is regrettable, Israel is in the grip of a fight for its life; Hezbollah poses nothing less than an existential threat. As Isaac Herzog, a member of Israel's security cabinet, writes in today's Guardian, "This is not a political issue, it is not an ideological issue; it is a matter of survival."
complete article by Paul Woodward
more articles, authors: http://warincontext.org/
thanks Conscientious
~In my head, where it matters, I just made the connection between "critical perspectives" needing critics and the special place from where criticism comes and the mobs of movie, food, music, fashion, blog, et.al. critics (and the pr people masquerading as same) that inhabit the (somewhat less special) mediated places I regularly visit and can't avoid unless the power goes out. "Everyone's a critic!" It's so clear.
Oh and by the way isn't that article above, "A Lethal Non Sequitur", fucking brilliant?
Posted by Stubbornson at July 26, 2006 02:41 PM