Writes Patrick Foy:
Dear Friends + Interlocutors,
Below is the latest post by veteran foreign policy journalist Eric Margolis. I can’t improve upon it, but will make a few side comments.
There seems to be a question mark concerning the quote Margolis attributes to Voltaire: “Show me whom you cannot criticize, and I will show you who rules you.” It certainly does sound like something Voltaire would have written. I think the following certified Voltaire quote may be just as appropriate with reference to Gaza: “Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Here’s another certified Voltaire observation: “I admit the Jewish people was a pretty barbarous people. It butchered without pity all the inhabitants of an unfortunate little country to which it had no more right than it had to Paris and London.” I’m afraid I do not know offhand to which “unfortunate little country” Voltaire was referring. Is history repeating itself?
Margolis notes that “Some Israelis even talk of fleeing to Ukraine, ‘the second Israel.’” Ukraine is the area of the Khazars. That is where the Ashkenazi came from in the 8th Century who make up the majority of the Russian/Polish/German Jews now in Palestine. See Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe.
Margolis refers to, “The heavily biased western media and well-paid politicians in the US…” We have become used to it. From the outlandish and embarrassing spectacle I am witnessing in Washington in support of Israel’s assault on Gaza, I am beginning to wonder if this phenomenon has crashed through sycophancy and now reached the level of treason.
