“In the ‘Rejectionism and Accommodation’ chapter of Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & The Palestinians, Noam Chomsky recounts how Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s 1971 peace initiative has been effaced from history. Sadat’s offer of ‘a full peace treaty on the pre-June 1967 borders, with security guarantees, recognized borders and so on’ was rejected by Israel with the backing of the U.S. Henry Kissinger ‘assumed that Israel’s power was unchallengeable’ and thus ignored Sadat’s warnings that ‘he would be forced to resort to war if his efforts at a peaceful settlement were rebuffed.'” (Read more from antiwar.com)
Daily Archives: 15 February 2009
The Centrally-Planned Language: Esperanto
Scary. Esperanto enthusiasm has died down in recent decades, but who knows what may yet arise from the good-idea factory in Washington DC. Maybe some day, we’ll all be required by law to speak it. The central planners even had a movie made in Esperanto: