Tuesday
Jan062009
Non-Contradiction of the Day: Hamas and Nazis
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 15:07
David Aaronovitch in The Times:
Several paragraphs later:
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?
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tagged David Aaronovitch, Gaza, Hamas, National Socialism, Palestine, The Times in Middle East & Iran
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Eno-bashing. The last refuge of a scoundrel.