tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post7166905852262811432..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Into the lion's denThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-19006607059381989232014-08-06T19:09:27.601+01:002014-08-06T19:09:27.601+01:00Thanks Min - bigotry and hysteria sums most of it ...Thanks Min - bigotry and hysteria sums most of it up perfectly. I find it very dispiriting to see such a low level of debate. <br /><br />Good luck with the illness and the treatment. As they say here in Greece, perastika!The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-33533033660504894482014-08-06T11:57:04.797+01:002014-08-06T11:57:04.797+01:00Thank you for this calm, clear-eyed, thoughtful an...Thank you for this calm, clear-eyed, thoughtful analysis: a splendid antidote to all the bigotry and hysteria surrounding the subject.<br />Thanks, too, for diverting as well as informing an NHS cancer patient(such, such are the joys ...).Minhttps://minniebeaniste.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-78520447776304167762014-07-27T09:54:05.767+01:002014-07-27T09:54:05.767+01:00Very good Peter, essentially my case too. Maybe on...Very good Peter, essentially my case too. Maybe one might add something to the brew as far as the left is concerned. In the era of post-colonialism the thought of having set up a state, or having allowed a state to be set up, under the aegis of an immediately post-war international body that might be perceived as colonial / imperial is inimical to some. In essence the UN of 1948 is Europe and the USA by proxy for them. <br /><br />And since they must oppose everything the US supports or did support, and because they feel obliged to distance themselves from anything that might reflect a possibly vanishing European / US hegemony, Israel is an ideal target.<br />George Shttp://georgeszirtes.blogspot.co.uknoreply@blogger.com