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In reply to s gordon. My post was about what Israel has now become, so I agree with much of what you say about that. Israel has created a population of psychopaths, and of the delusional enablers of psychopaths. But my personal jury is out on how far b…

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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan, the history of Zionism is too rife with depraved efforts, such as working with the Nazis, not to save Jews, but to make sure to get more Jewish bodies into Palestine, not for the benefit of those people, but for the be…

In reply to David Potts. I think I may have more of a case against Sunstein than against Hayek. My argument against Sunstein is that he has greatly underestimated the distance between what he regards as essential to “the rule of law” and th…

In reply to s gordon. I think it’s an overstatement to say that creation of Israel had nothing to do with the Holocaust. Israel was conceived as a refuge against anti-Semitism on the premise that only a State could keep the Jews safe. Zionism pre…

Irfan, incisive and insightful as always, my friend, but I disagree that the creation of Israel ever had anything to do with the Holocaust. Aside from the fact that Zionism predates Nazism, the Holocaust has served as an excuse for, not a reason for, t…