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In the post 9-11 era, during the “war against terror” hysteria, Charlie Hebdo has played the game of “political correctness”. The magazine did not oppose the occupation of Afghanistan. In June 2002, when one of the founders along with Charb and the chief editor at that time, Phillipe Val, was sniping at Noam Chomsky as “one of the Americans hating America too much and one of the Jews criticizing Israel thinking that he can avoid antisemitism charges since he is a Jew himself”, in June 2002, “the civilization” was raining down as bombs on Afghanistan.
In 2006, during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, Phillipe Val was writing the following: “Looking at the map, heading east, crossing the frontiers of Europe, i.e. Greece, one realizes that the democratic world comes to an end. There is one exception this in the middle of the Middle East: The state of Israel. From there on till Japan, there is nothing else. (…) Between Tel-Aviv and Tokyo, it is one government after another who can stay in power only by filling their 80% illiterate people with hate towards the West and democracy.” Those times, as Noam Chomsky has called everyone to exercise their memories a bit, in Fellujah, American soldiers, similar to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices by the jihadists, were busy assaulting the Fallujah General Hospital, forcing the medical personnel and patients out from the rooms and piling them in corridors and New York times was writing “American officials said that the hospital, a center of propaganda against allied forces as it was inflating casualty figures, was shut down.”
full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/22/the-international-left-and-charlie-hebdo/
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