Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

5 April 2019 at 15:47Reply to @nick_routledge

“As I have said,” #GeorgeSteiner offers, “Israel, like all other nations has to torture to survive. But is even survival a justification?” The answer happens to be blindingly obvious to me. But if not torture, what? Curb-recycling will obviously not suffice. /10

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Quoted by17 May 2021See, I have sent you this day over nations And over kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant. #Jeremiah 1:10 ?s=20 17/Quoted by4 Apr 2021@nils_gilman I fundamentally disagree. Justifying nation states is but endless, secular ‘just war’ isn’t it? A shopworn obscenity.