Adolph Hitler’s repeated his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels’ virulent anti-Semitic oratory by saying: : “If you tell a lie big enough, and often enough, it will eventually be believed.” It now translates as “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes politics.” The word ‘Apartheid’ does not apply to Israel. Never did. Never will.…
Attack follows attack; atrocity after atrocity …. As ISIS celebrates the killing of another 23 people at the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia the world is once again exposed to Islamic terrorism – the number one global evil against humanity today. While Islamic State claims responsibility and praises its “knights of the caliphate” for the…
Two articles appeared on the same page in Weekend Argus 14th February 2015: “Leila Khaled Inspired MK’s Young Fighters – Skwatsha’ with sub-heading: ‘Activist in South Africa to support anti-Israel boycotts.’ was one. The other was headed ‘She Continues to Support the Use of Violence’. Both articles refer to the same person: Each conveys the…
Leila Khaled, double airline hijacker, after her arrival in South Africa, has asserted that “she did not want to blow up the plane” with the two hand grenades she had in her hands during her second EL Al flight hijacking and that “The grenades were only to threaten.” She does not explain why she had…
As their infamous blood-trail continues unabated across the world (no, they don’t even have to retaliate by being ‘outraged’ – i.e. freedom of expression), one can hardly say that public expressions of disgust, despair and detestation directed at terrorist atrocities and killing, have been done to death. On the contrary, what are witnessing might only…
The point is being missed. Much as support across the globe has been demonstrated (and rightly so) for freedom of the press to be protected, worldwide terrorism (except for what has just happened in France) has nothing to do with freedom of expression. It is about the insistence of power in the name of a…