UN LIVRE UTILE 23

Çà, c'est pour la continuité d'hier.
Hier, c'était aussi la fête de Gabrielle.
Javier, son fils, Francine, sa marraine, Michèle et moi
avons dîné avec elle au restaurant Le p'tit Plateau,
coin Marie-Anne et Drolet, à Montréal.
Nous y avions fêté là, l'anniversaire de Michèle, l'an dernier.
Avec Laurent .
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Gabrielle a maintenant son blogue:
http://gabzontheroad.blogspot.com/
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7th January 2004

« The great enemy of great language is insecurity. When there is a gap between arès real and
arès declared aims, arie turns as it where instinctively to lasy words and exhausted idioms, like a cuddelfish squirting at ark. »
1946, Politics, language and freefom p.13, G. Orwell

« Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life : the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for suffering of mankind. These passions like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair… »
The autobiography of Bertrand Russel by Bertrand Russel. What I lived for. (1872-1970)
Pub. 1967, pp.188

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Je le sais. La première citation est toute croche. Il y a des mots illisibles (En gras). Le sens général m'échappe. Même Michèle n'y peut rien. De plus, il ne me semble pas qu'Orwell est écrit un tel livre. Je cherche sur internet. Chomsky est dans les parages. Aucune certitude. À l'aide.

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En tentant d'éclaircir cette énigme, je suis tombé par hasard sur un des derniers textes auquel Chowsky a souscrit qui jette un autre éclairage sur le bon droit d'Israël dans son invasion du Liban, en juillet dernier. Ce ne serait pas le Hezbollah qui aurait lancé la première pierre. L'enlèvement des deux soldats n'est qu'une demi-vérité.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

A letter from Chomsky and others on the recent events in the Middle East (July 19, 2006):

The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis - there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.


That this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the illegal military occupation of the West Bank and the systematic appropriation of its natural resources - most particularly that of water - by the Israeli Defence (!) Forces is considered a regrettable but realistic fact of life, is typical of the double standards repeatedly employed by the West in face of what has befallen the Palestinians, on the land alloted to them by international agreements, during the last seventy years.


Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles cross sophisticated ones. The latter usually find their target situated where the disinherited and crowded poor live, waiting for what was once called Justice. Both categories of missile rip bodies apart horribly - who but field commanders can forget this for a moment?


Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.


This has to be said loud and clear for the practice, only half declared and often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it must be unceasingly and eternally recognised for what it is and resisted.



Tariq Ali
Russell Banks
John Berger
Noam Chomsky
Richard Falk
Eduardo Galeano
Charles Glass
Naomi Klein
W.J.T. Mitchell
Harold Pinter
Arundhati Roy
Jose Saramago
Giiuliana Sgrena
Gore Vidal
Howard Zinn