"Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell

January 12, 2005

Democracy cannot work with occupation by Linda S. Heard

Carried away by the fiery rhetoric, upon hearing of Israel's killing of seven teenage Palestinians in a strawberry field, Abbas denounced the Israeli military as "the Zionist enemy". He was later to apologise due to US pressure putting his slip of tongue down to the emotion of the moment. Israel, however, is never made to apologise for the killing of Palestinian civilians.

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