The Post-Partisan Emporium

  What Really Happened on 7th October? ROBERT INLAKESH Two weeks after the Hamas breakout assault on Israel on 7 October, a clearer picture of what happened – who died, and who killed – is now beginning to emerge. Instead of the wholescale massacre of civilians claimed by Israel, incomplete figures published by the Hebrew newspaper  Haaretz  show that almost half the Israelis killed that day were in fact combatants – soldiers or police. In the interim, two weeks of blanket western media reporting that Hamas allegedly killed around 1,400 Israeli civilians during its 7 October military attack has served to inflame emotions and create the climate for Israel’s unconstrained destruction of the Gaza Strip and its civilian population. Accounts of the Israeli death toll have been filtered and shaped to suggest that a wholesale civilian massacre occurred that day, with babies, children, and women the main targets of a terror attack. Now, detailed statistics on the casualties relea...

 Thanks to MrZ for recommending this article... The Ugly Stick BY  JOHN STEPPLING   Richard Helmer (forensic photography. Mengele’s Skull exhibition) “Kafka’s idiosyncrasy is present in each of these writings [by Zeno,Han Yu, Robert Browning, and Søren Kierkegaard], to a greater or a lesser degree, but if Kafka had not written, we would not perceive it; that is to say, it would not exist. The fact is that each writer creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.” Jorge Luis Borges ( Kafka and His Precursors ) “The discontent in our culture has assumed a new quality: It appears as a universal, diffuse cynicism. “ Peter Sloterdijk ( Critique of Cynical Reason ) “I decide who is a Jew.” Karl Lueger (Mayor of Vienna, 1897) “Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; it starts on firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms.” Joseph Conrad ( Notes on Life and Letters ) I can’t s...

  MEMO ON THE FINAL SOLUTION FOR ONE STATE – ISRAEL OR PALESTINE By John Helmer, Moscow Preamble 1.  Since 1943 the US and its European allies, including Germany (Olaf Scholz’s government, not Adolf Hitler’s), have aimed to liquidate the secular nationalist Arab leadership capable of co-existence with the West and a state for the Jewish people. 2.  In Palestine Hamas has studied seventy-five years of lessons on the impossibility of coordinating Arab state war in the defence of the Palestine part of the two-state solution. 3. For more than a year, therefore, Hamas has prepared in well-kept secret an offensive against Israel to achieve five objectives – the first to demonstrate how inferior the Israeli military is, how vulnerable, how incompetent their intelligence on the Arab world. This has been achieved by the initial attack of October 7. 4. The second Hamas objective has been to demonstrate the Israeli plan of ethnic cleansing of Gaza,  genocide against the Arabs, ...