трохи Делінґполіани
What Paxo needed for the purposes of this first episode was postcolonial ingratitude. He got it from the chap in the Gezira club; he got it even more so from the Israeli woman who, as a 16-year-old Irgun terrorist, had scouted the King David Hotel, prior to the placing of the bombs that killed 91 in September 1946. Did she not, Paxo wondered, feel even the slightest bit beholden to the hated British for what they did for the Jews with the Balfour Declaration? The woman paused a long while, then conceded - so unenthusiastically she might just as well have said ‘no’ - ‘It is possible to thank you. It is not a problem.’
All that stuff about the Battle of Britain being ‘won’ by a handful of fighter pilots was as big a nonsense as the tallies published in the papers each day about the relative losses of the RAF and the Luftwaffe. (North shows that RAF kills were exaggerated by a factor of about five. But it did wonders for morale. Indeed, North drily notes, the scribes who made up these figures probably did more for the war effort than the actual pilots.) In reality, the concept of the Few was a brilliant propaganda myth dreamed up by Churchill in order to bring the Americans on board.
Delingpole’s book is called Watermelons, after the fruit that is green on the outside but red on the inside. He documents with great skill and not a lttle style one of the ‘long marches through the institutions’ that the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci proposed as the Left’s best strategy instead of Communism. Whether they have heard of Gramsci or not, there is little doubt that many of the kind of people who were Soviet apologists in the 1980s are now green schemers.
All that stuff about the Battle of Britain being ‘won’ by a handful of fighter pilots was as big a nonsense as the tallies published in the papers each day about the relative losses of the RAF and the Luftwaffe. (North shows that RAF kills were exaggerated by a factor of about five. But it did wonders for morale. Indeed, North drily notes, the scribes who made up these figures probably did more for the war effort than the actual pilots.) In reality, the concept of the Few was a brilliant propaganda myth dreamed up by Churchill in order to bring the Americans on board.
Delingpole’s book is called Watermelons, after the fruit that is green on the outside but red on the inside. He documents with great skill and not a lttle style one of the ‘long marches through the institutions’ that the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci proposed as the Left’s best strategy instead of Communism. Whether they have heard of Gramsci or not, there is little doubt that many of the kind of people who were Soviet apologists in the 1980s are now green schemers.