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This is truly hilarious. It's a comment left on the ridiculous Lenin's Tomb blog.
LeninI support Hezbollah, of course.
However, I do not know whether I should be supporting Hamas or Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the civil war.
Both of them are liberation movements and we have always been supporters of liberation movements and both have been involved in actions of resistance against the occupiers (Israel). Fatah obviously used to be the best one because it had Yasser Arafat and he was the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Now he has died it is difficult to chose and I suppose it should be Hamas because they won the election.
Perhaps, as a socialist, I should support the one which is most socialist. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are quite socialist, but Hamas seems to be more socialist because it is more religious, and I have read in the Socialist Review that in the early days of the USSR Lenin was a very strong supporter of religion and was often cheered by Mullah's when he went to the more muslim parts of Russia.
I am quite happy to support either the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades or Hamas, or both of them. Or alternatively I could wait to see who wins. But I do not want to tell people that I am backing Hamas and then find out that they were the wrong ones and then have to tell my friends I made a mistake.
What do readers think?
The poor chap. What a dilemma. Which bunch of Jew killers should he suppport? I wish I could help him out, but I'm stumped. Choices, choices...
(thanks to Malachi)
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"It's a comment left on the ridiculous Lenin's Tomb blog."
I see him not as ridiculous, but instead someone who has much in common with a member of the Einsatzgruppen.
To the left of his blog we have a post on Cable Street. To the right we have a flag showing support for Hezbollah. In his mind to engage in the mass-murder of Jews is fine just so long as you are an Islamofascist and not a right-wing European gentile.
The truly scary thing is that there are millions of Brits who agree with him.
Am I the only one who thinks the post on Lenin's Tomb just might have been a spoof on the wrongheaded morons of the Stalinist left?
I, too, think it's someone taking the piss.
The trouble is that satire is so dependent on context. If it was on a non-Lefty website, then it would clearly be a gag. That it is on a Lefty site makes it absolutely absurd, or is a very funny letter which makes the Lefty terrorist-apologist visitors to it look like fool.
It is definitely someone taking the piss