Harry´s Blog

After a Danish newspaper had published
cartoons lampooning Islamism,
the Sunnis and Shiites united
to go on the rampage against all infidels.

When the dust settled and the fires went out,
they went back to blowing up each other’s mosques.

- Herbert Kuhner

Nazi Germany started saturation bombing in a war situation. Women and children were killed “indirectly.”

The Allies responded.

The Nazis also killed women and children directly in death factories outside of a war situation.

The Islamists kill woman and children.

They claim they are in a war situation, and they are right.

The motives originally stated were the destruction of State of Israel and the fact that Holy Land in Saudi Arabia is being defiled by the presence of infidel troops. Now Afghanistan and Iraq have been added to the original motives.

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Hamas and Hezbollah have emerged as major factors in the Middle East. Their leaders exemplify a new kind of integrity. They live modestly and they do not have Swiss bank accounts. They provide social benefits for the poor and have established efficiently run schools, hospitals and homes for the aged.

The officers and volunteers of the political, social, and military arms of these organizations enjoy a unique camaraderie.

In the schools children are taught the tenets of Islam, and they are prepared to enter manhood and womanhood as fighters for Islam. They are taught the martial arts - and also how to become suicide bombers. Their aim is to kill civilians of those nations which they consider to be their mortal enemies. Children are taught to kill children.

And in the meantime, being used as human shields will do.

This is all part of integrity.

- Herbert Kuhner

“The State of Israel must be overthrown, there is no room for such a state….The Zionist state is the cause of conflict and violence in the Middle East. I am against the racism and violence of the Zionist state of Israel, but I also oppose anti-Semitism.”
- Vanessa Redgrave, Arab Perspective, 1981, DiscovertheNetworks.Org

“Israel and dirty tricks have a long history.” It is “a little settler state on the Mediterranean” whose purpose is to “act as an advanced guard in the Arab world…..This is the thing about Zionism. It has nothing to do with Jewishness. Some of the biggest Zionists in the world are not Jews. These people have used Jewish people. They created the conditions in the Arab countries and in some European countries to stampede Jewish people out of the countries that they had been living in for many hundreds of years and stampede them into the Zionist state.”
- George Galloway, Home News National, Daniel Kahtan, July 5, 2007

“In their hearts, they (the Israelis) know they are wrong, and they know they would be doing just what the Palestinians are doing if the sandal were on the other foot Here’s a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head.”
- Michael Moore, Dude Where’s My Country? Warner Books, 2003

It has been taboo to kill women and children. Of course that taboo has been broken again and again. But now that taboo is a thing of the past. And there are many who favor and sympathize with those who break it. Read more »

My late friend Dusko Tomovski, who had translated Faust I and II into Macedonian, told me the following story: At the age of fifteen he went up to the mountains to fight with the Tito partisans. At nightfall, he asked a grizzled comrade where he should sleep. The answer was:

“Find the softest stone.”

In 1992 when I was at the PEN Congress in Dubrovnik, which was still under siege, my friend Luko Paljetek the poet told me that a Serbian fighter up in the hills was reputed to have said:

“We will destroy Dubrovnik and build an older city.”

- Herbert Kuhner