True, of course, that Newspeak is just a precursor of "political correctness" which so many liberals seem to support, even though it makes independent thinking difficult or impossible.

No, it isn't, you don't know what your talking about, you neither know nor care about what Newspeak is or isn't, and what Orwell was or wasn't doing at the time he got the idea for it.

Unlike Israel and any of its militarists' cheerleaders, Orwell really was trying to preserve his own nation, Britain, from falling to a genuine threat of destruction (an actual Nazi & fascist military capable of taking Britain) -- but Orwell was simultaneously horrified that he was being basically asked to lie to the independence-seeking Indians in the form of a controlled language.

Imagine that -- here Orwell was, in the midst of a nearly total worldwide war, and his motivation wasn't simply slavishly cheerleading his own nation against its very real and actually powerful enemies, but speaking truthfully even to those who wanted to break away from the Empire itself.

Israel faces no actual threat of destruction, none whatsoever, certainly not from bands of gangsters in the Gaza strip, and unlike Orwell, very few of its cheerleaders seem to have the genuine concern of Orwell that he not simply be a cheap mouthpiece for power, not even for the nation he was trying to preserve, and that he seek justice for the very people currently being oppressed by his own nation.

But thanks for the silly effort to try to use Orwell as an excuse to bash "liberals" and anyone who doesn't obtain sexual release by thinking about how long and thick and hard they're going to give it to Hamas.

You see, all the things that Orwell wrote as non-fiction like his journalism and essays, well, people shouldn't read them because they don't help out toward Victory.

That's why we only want people reading 1984 and Animal Farm and we tell them that the books are just about how bad Communism is and that's really all there is to it.

And don't pay any attention to those people who point out that Orwell's model for NewSpeak in 1984 was none other than the proposed rules of language bandied about while Orwell was a wartime broadcaster to India for the BBC.

For god's sake, we don't want people reading the crazy Orwell as depicted in the Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters as edited by Sonia Orwell.

http://tinyurl.com/Orwell-Collected

People could hear all sorts of dangerous, anti-tribal talk.

They might even learn that Orwell, unlike Hitchens might prefer, is no cheap, chest-beating "contrarian" out to kill the barbarians all the time, but quite motivated by basic decency and humanitarian concerns.

So don't read any of that Orwell. Stick to the good Orwell, who can Help Keep Us Safe.

The Israelis also struck the American International School, which is not connected to the US Government but teaches an American curriculum in English.

The bombs demolished the school’s main building and a night watchman was killed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1103314/Israel-rolls-tanks-Gaza-storm-Hamas-rocket-bases.html

Through the magic of wartime PR, this will become a "Hamas target".

Now, previously the school was the target of Palestinian paramilitary rocket attack:

A hitherto unknown group called Mujahidi Beit al-Makdes (Holy Warriors of Jerusalem) said its men were behind Thursday's rocket attack on the American International School in the Gaza Strip.

The pre-dawn attack took place only hours before the meeting in Ramallah between US President George W. Bush and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

...The school's principal, Ribhi Salem, said the attackers destroyed the art hall on the second floor of the building. He added that the attackers stormed the school premises in the Gaza Strip after threatening the guards.

Salem condemned the attack, noting it was the second of its kind in the past year.

"The school's staff and students are all Palestinians, and we are licensed by the Ministry of Education," he said. "Our mission is purely educational and we are not related to any form of political activity."

The previous attack on the American school, located in the town Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, occurred last April, when a group of masked gunmen set fire to some classrooms. That attack was claimed by another radical Islamist group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1198517341829

At least everyone's even now. I think it's a great symbol of the conduct and consequences of this occupation, resistance, and repeated attacks.