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 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 seem to shake t

  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, and incorporation o

American Pravda: Israel, Gaza, and Broader Issues   RON UNZ   TABLE OF  CONTENTS A Sudden Attack by Hamas and Its Consequences The Surprising Elements of Traditional Judaism Understanding Anti-Semitism The Hidden History of Zionism and Nazi Germany Controlling the Narrative While the World Changes Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. A Sudden Attack by Hamas and Its Consequences EPub Format A couple of weeks ago, the smoldering political landscape of the Middle East suddenly exploded as the Hamas militants of Gaza launched a surprise attack against Israel, unprecedented in its size and success. News reports now place Israeli fatalities at around 1,400, more deaths in a single day than the country had ever suffered in any of its previous wars, and greater losses than in all of those conflicts combined since 1973, while as many as 200 Israelis were captured and taken back to Gaza as prisoners and hostages. In recent years, Israel had focused upo