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... a niggling quandary that Balfour Declaration is for me ...

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Oct 16, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage

Thank you for this terrific post.

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Oct 16, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage

Chris Bray has provided the only military explanation of Hamas actions, to create a dead zone, a region so steeped in trauma that no Israelis will venture near the area for generations to come. It's utterly vile and horrific. I fail to understand how anyone can think otherwise. These entitled brats have no sense of humanity. And as for the Guardian.....well, anything less would have been a disappointment, so detached from reality has that institution become.

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Oct 16, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage

Wonderful. Thank you

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AYC x

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Strike while the weather is good.

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excellent piece! thanks!

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And thank you, too.

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Oct 15, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage

Another one outa the park, sir. Thanks.

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Thank you, sir.

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The mentality of the campus brats and other banner-waving performative 'Progressives' is not even really about a concern for the Palestinian people. The real driver is to signal that your privileged narcissistic little wonderful self is ever on the side of the 'oppressed'. 'Oppression' is a shallow abstraction that serves to inflate their personal vanity as 'social justice' warriors. This poisonous vanity has been pouring out of Western academia for decades. I still remember the drug-addled anti-Zionist 'sit-in' at my UK university in 1973.

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Ironically, it's a kind of social colonialism.

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TS Eliot nailed it decades ago.."they do not see [the harm they do] because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themeselves"

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Oct 15, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage

One cannot be certain. of course, but They seem to think very well of themselves indeed. How can one who cannot be wrong think otherwise... legends in their own eyes, they are.

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The venality, too, though. Fewer places at the top these days. They'll say and do anything for a seat. (Much of our problems are down to elite overproduction, but that's for another day.)

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Oct 15, 2023Liked by Christopher Gage

Thank you.

"It’s not our 9/11, it’s not more pogroms" https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/378537

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