I am no great fan of Bertrand Russels secular humanism but this quote is a gem. Thanks to Samantha Castro, via Francisco J. Castro: “For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annex foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.” - Bertrand Russell, 1970
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 02:37:50 +0000