Na mouche:
"É que parece que é preciso alimentar - com o génio mediático que se reconhece aos palestianos, e falta, por exemplo, aos Tigres Tamil, até há dois anos os campeões absolutos e destacados no campeonato dos atentados suicidas - o terrorismo internacional contra as nações ditas Ocidentais, para, por exemplo, merecer a citação de um texto chato no Causa Nossa ou, quem sabe, se não for pedir muito, ver hasteada uma bandeirinha no Arrastão. "
The daily terrorist attacks on civilians in Baghdad, killing 50 people or more, are checked off in reports under the heading of miscellaneous, while the bomb that took 28 lives in Qana is denounced as a crime against humanity. Only a few intellectuals like Bernard-Henri Lévy or Magdi Allam, chief editor of the Corriere della Sera, find this surprising. Why do the 200,000 slaughtered Muslims of Darfur not arouse even half a quarter of the fury caused by 200-times fewer dead in Lebanon? Must we deduce that Muslims killed by other Muslims don't count (...) ?
And so, as Clausewitz already noted with irony, it is not the aggressor who starts the war. Instead it is he who steps in to stop the aggression. So Israel is guilty. Guilty of a collectively fomented fantasy of the end of days. From surrealistic geopolitics to delusion - just one step.
