Friday, June 4, 2010

Moshe Machover: Colonizers’ Hutzpah

Moshe Machover: Colonizers’ Hutzpah

Moshe Machover

Protected by a Western empire, you colonize a part of the world, ethnically cleanse as many of its indigenous people as you can, and confine the remainder to stew in a series of besieged reservations, which are in effect open prisons. And when the victims try to resist, you depict them as "savages" and "terrorists"; and present yourself, the colonizer, as acting in "self-defence". Similarly, when humanitarian sympathizers of the colonized try to provide them with some help....

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