Monday, January 26, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard L. Cravatts: The UN's Orwellian Language on Israel - '...There have been actual genocides and the horrific death of innocents across the world, many of which occurred in some of the morally-challenged member states of the UN's Human Rights Council, and conscience demands that they be identified and condemned for what they are when they flare up. But the Orwellian contortion of language that attempts to frame the current Israeli defensive incursion into Gaza as either a massacre, a genocide, or a holocaust trivializes history and insults the memory of those souls who have perished in conflicts that could be accurately called by those names.'
