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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:23 PM

    Dr. G., the monastery in Iona was founded by a Donegal man called St. Columba but, naturally enough,

    the Scots would like to take credit. All that hootenanny music you have in "redneck country" comes from over here too and, as you probably know, the Welsh like their choirs. Your Welshness came out when you didn't seem to know that while I'm angry about what's happening in Gaza I was only being flippant about Brahms & Lizst.

    What's happening in Gaza is what we would refer to here as "The last sting of the dying wasp", and I'm not referring to the Bush religion/ethnicity or anything about White Anglo-Saxons. I think America is coming to the end of empire and that the Middle East will be seen as precipitating that end. Good night, sweet dreams.

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