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Tuesday
Jan062009

Non-Contradiction of the Day: Hamas and Nazis

David Aaronovitch in The Times:

Ahistorical hyperbole is also the product of a kind of binary thinking, the belief that there can only be two kinds of anything, and two possible responses: there's the good and the bad; there's the victim and the murderer.



Several paragraphs later:

It has always seemed to me that the most awful question raised by the Holocaust is not about victimhood, but about being the perpetrator, and how that declension can take place. And in that context I want to ask Brian Eno, whether he has ever - in a recording break - watched Hamas TV and thought to compare it to the propaganda, much earlier, of [the German National Socialists] who later gave the Hannas their jobs?

Reader Comments (1)

Eno-bashing. The last refuge of a scoundrel.

January 6, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEdward

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