Palestine and the Geocentric Left
LEFTIST THEORY has always reminded me of the old earth-centered universe. Back then, whenever anybody observed something going on in the skies that contradicted the model, he would tweak and adapt it to account for the new phenomenon. Eventually the whole contraption became so intricate and unwieldy that it collapsed. The problem wasn't that the model was not sufficiently elaborate, but rather that it was fundamentally flawed and had to be discarded.
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You only have to look at the rhetoric coming out of the Middle East to see the process at work. How often over the years have we seen "colonialism" and "imperialism" sprayed like verbal aerosols over every event and crisis, obscuring their true causes? Remember Egypt's "Big Lie" during the '67 Six-Day War? Nasser spun Israel's brilliant demolition of Egypt's incompetent air force into the "imperialist" aggression of the United States and England, whose jets actually did the fighting. Thus had the "colonial" powers taken another step in regaining their "imperialist" hegemony whose key was the creation of Israel.
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