Website review: Why Does The Times Recognize Israel...
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nooner rated 14 months ago- From the page: excerpt #1.:"...in diplomacy, such recognition is supposed to be mutual. In order to earn its own recognition, Israel would have to simultaneously recognize the state of Palestine. This it steadfastly refuses to do (and for some reason, there are no high-minded newspaper editorials demanding that it do so)." excerpt #2.: "...which Israel, precisely, are the Palestinians being asked to "recognize?" Israel has stubbornly refused to declare its own borders. So, territorially speaking, "Israel" is an open-ended concept." --------- The concept of a dictatorial Illuminist communist Zionist global state is even more open ended...
- Yoza rated 14 months ago
- A well argued piece, pursuing the fantastical contention that Palestine must recognise the right of 'Israel' to exist. And which Israel should be recognised?
- tsha rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "No issue better illustrates Orwell's point than coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States. Consider, for example, the editorial in The Times on Feb. 9 demanding that the Palestinians "recognize Israel" and its "right to exist." This is a common enough sentiment â€" even a cliche. Yet many observers (most recently the international lawyer John Whitbeck) have pointed out that this proposition, assiduously propagated by Israel's advocates and uncritically reiterated by American politicians and journalists, is â€" at best â€" utterly nonsensical. " Beautiful, beautiful article. I suggest everyone read this
