“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
“Zionism requires a continuous shrill cacophony in the background, for it requires the suspension of reason in asserting that an end goal for one people can be justified by any means against another.”
http://www.qern.org/en/robert-fisk-on-anonymous-internet-cowards-like-david-toube/.
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