Amnesty International has always been notoriously silent about Israeli apartheid, because, understandably enough, it doesn’t want to alienate its sizeable Jewish donor base. It ignores a relatively few injustices so it can attract the resources to fight far more. Well,… Read More ›
Hamas
ANTISEMITISM
There’s a pattern of fallacious reasoning in political discourse – I don’t know what to call it, but I’m open to suggestions – that goes like this. 1) If I refuse – and I do – to condemn the Hamas… Read More ›
MORE MATH AND A MODEST PROPOSAL
After seven weeks of ‘precision’ bombing, the IDF, by its own reckoning, has managed to kill 1,000 Hamas soldiers. So only another 34,000 to go. So keeping the kill rate constant, it should only take another four and half years… Read More ›
JUST DO THE MATH
At any given time, there are about 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, which means at least 50,000 live births per year, which means about an extra, say, 24,000 young men reaching fighting age per year. So even if only a… Read More ›
A PUZZLE ABOUT THE MEDIA
Last Saturday, October 7th, 600 people – and still counting – died in a Hamas breakout from Gaza. And on the same morning, 2000 people – and still counting – died in an earthquake in Afghanistan. The breakout dominated the… Read More ›
DON’T ASK DON’T TELL
Right from the get-go last Saturday morning, it’s been dubbed Israel’s 9/11. Yes there are parallels. But among them is the assiduous avoidance, in the largely pro-Zionist media, of asking what have the Israelis been doing to the Palestinians in… Read More ›
ELEVEN DAYS IN MAY
More people died on American highways the week before 9/11 than in those two towers. But how much has been spent on guardrails compared to so-called homeland security? Does this show that Americans care less about their loved ones being… Read More ›
HOW TO BE A MORE EFFECTIVE TERRORIST – LESSONS ONE THRU THREE
LESSON ONE: THE DEFENCE OF TERRORISM The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. I’m just as clever. I titled this paper so that whatever censors might be out there would think it’s obviously… Read More ›
THINGS YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW
We all have things we’re better off not knowing. I don’t want to know how my meat gets from field to supermarket. Others don’t want to know just how fair Fair Trade coffee really isn’t. And I’m betting you don’t… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 