I'm deeply worried
I'm deeply worried about
- the humiliation of the Palestinian people,
- the theft of their country, and
- the destruction of their property, etc., etc., etc..
But I'm even more worried about people that should be well informed, shamelessly defending the wrong case .
"Hoe is dat mogelijk geweest? Hoe kunnen mensen tot zodanige laagheid vervallen, mensen nogwel van een volk dat nog niet zo heel lang geleden van cultuur niet verstoken is geweest?"
Abel J Herzberg,
in 'Amor fati' (1946)
POGROM
Is dit de maan, die naar het laatst kwartier gaat,
of een gelaat, omgord door walm en vlam?
Waar is Berlijn, en waar de de Grenadierstraat?
Wat deed de jongen, toen de bende kwam?
Is dat zijn schim, die daar voor de rivier staat,
is dit het water, dat hem tot zich nam,
is hier de Spree, en daar de Grenadierstraat?
Het is de Amstel, het is Amsterdam.
Op 't Rembrandtsplein gaan de lantaarns branden,
over de daken sproeit een lichtfontein.
Ik druk mijn nagels dieper in mijn handen.
De Jodenbreestraat is een diep ravijn.
Een korte schreew weerkaatst tussen de wanden.
Het is maar tien uur sporen naar Berlijn.
Ed. Hoornik
Feelings of utmost contempt are my answer to the land grab and ethnic dicrimination.
But I admire the Jews who dare to speak up against the injustice.
How to admire the pilots that refuse to bomb civilian targets (October 2003) ?!
From a most interesting book:
I don't like the nonsense that passes for rational discourse so often in our society. I am very much bothered by the inaccuracies, ambiguities, code words, slogans, catch phrases, public relation devices, sweeping generalizations, and stereotypes, which are used (consciously or otherwise) to influence people.
I am bothered by the inability of many to recognize these for what they are. I am bothered by the way people fudge issues, or are unable to clarify them, sometimes because they are inhibited by "collegiality" and other forms of intimidation (sometimes subtle, sometimes not). Most people put up with the nonsense without doing anything about it (unable or unwilling, for whatever reason -- inertia, lack, of energy, lack of interest, lack of time, etc.), often falling into cynicism and despair.
I am bothered by the misinformation which gets disseminated uncritically through the media and by the obstructions which prevent correct information from being disseminated. These obstructions come about in many ways -- personal, institutional, through self-imposed inhibitions, through external inhibitions, through outright dishonesty, through incompetence -- the list is a long one.
I am bothered by the way misinformation, disguised as scholarship, is used in social, political, and educational contexts to affect policy decisions.
I am bothered by the way misinformation is accepted uncritically, and by the way people are unable to recognize it or reject it.
Serge Lang,
The File: Case Study in Correction (1977--1979)
Springer Verlag, 1981.
''Israelisch-Nederlandse historicus Martin van Creveld vindt een oorlogscultuur noodzakelijk''
Interview met Peter Giesen
de Volkskrant, 14 maart 2009, Kennis, pag.3
een week in november 2012
they sold their souls
for a few square miles
of stolen land
50 years of occupation:
