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Free speech and the pro-Israel lobby : Comments
By Jake Lynch, published 18/9/2009So narrow has political debate about Israel and Palestine become that attempts to remind Australians of basic facts are falling foul of censorship.
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That would be because under the standards of Western rationality, journalists attempt to be fair between parties to a dispute.
Sadly, one-eyed supporters of genocidal maniacs think that evenhandedness is itself evil. They are right; even-handedness between evil and good is collaboration with evil. But they are wrong; their side daily commit crimes agaisnt humanity. If the Palestinians had waged peace as monomaniacally as they wage war, they would have half the seats in the Israeli parliament by now.
As for Jakes quoting Pilger - PILGER! - before we even read the quote his credibility is ruined.