More powerful than all corporate lobbyists combined, AIPAC recently had all 100 senators goose-stepping to its edicts – every single one signing off on a resolution affirming Israel’s “right to defend itself,” Orwellian newspeak justifying the merciless battering of a virtually helpless population. To be sure, the right of nations to self-defense is a well-established international principle – but so is the right to resist oppression. But whereas nations habitually invoke the right of self-defense to cloak aggression – Hitler, too, claimed he was defending Germany – no such ambiguity can be said to exist with regard to the right to resist oppression, inasmuch as the oppressed are the ones with the boot on their necks, and not the other way around.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:34:28 +0000
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