Michael Fox, a British-born Israeli lawyer, wrote a tribute to Orwell in
Haaretz. He speculates about what GO would have thought about Israel:
"... Orwell was unsympathetic to the Zionist cause and there is nothing in the
subsequent history of the State of Israel that would have led him to change his
mind. But he knew a double standard when he saw it. He would surely have
wondered what made Israel uniquely evil in the eyes of the heirs of those
woolly European intellectuals for whom he had such contempt in his life and why
they should refrain from criticizing infinitely more oppressive regimes, merely
because they were not Western."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=350816&sw=Orwell
c/o Gene
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