My new book Grand Narrative is being released chapter by chapter exclusively on “Guerre and Shalom”. If you think that my hard work deserves a Paid Subscription, please hit the link below!!
As long time subscribers can attest, the chapter below has been released on Substack in draft form before, but has it since been significantly amended, extended and improved.
CONTENTS:
PROLOGUE: The Oxford Union has betrayed British Values
INTRODUCTION: Who’s afraid of grand narrative?
BOOK 1: LANGUAGE: ON LIES & CIVILIZATIONAL DEMISE
1.1: Living a Lie
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1.2: Corruption of the Masses
1.3: The Dangerous Confusion of Language
1.4: The Great Genocide Lie
1.5: Hands off Churchill!
1.6 In Praise of the British Empire for Abolishing Slavery Worldwide.
1.7: Declaring War on Post-Modernism
1.8: The Problem with Atheism
1.9: Justice Lost: From Plato to Hamas
1.10: Thou Shalt Not Lie: On the Destruction of Worlds
1.11: Freedom of Speech?
1.12: Democracy cannot survive in a World that accepts Truth as Lies
BOOK 2: TRUTH: ON THE BIRTH OF HUMAN AGENCY
BOOK 3: SOVEREIGNTY: ON THE DEMOCRATIC NATION
BOOK 4: NARRATIVE: ON THE FULFILMENT OF MEANING
BOOK 5: FREEDOM: ON WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER
BOOK 6: COVENANT: ON CREATING A NATION OF NARRATIVE
BOOK 7: NATIONHOOD: ON EXPANDING THE NARRATIVE
BOOK 8: LEADERSHIP: ON REACHING THE PROMISED LAND
BOOK 9: PEACE: THE END OF THE JOURNEY
Chapter 1.5: The Great Genocide Lie
Criminal misuse of the ultimate horror
Ubiquitous genocide
Homs, Syria (above). Death and destruction by the hands of the Assad regime. Civilian casualties sought and obtained by the thousands1. Murder on a mass scale; a showcase for the evil of man towards man. But one thing it was not: Genocide. There was no attempt to eliminate an entire ethnic or other human grouping,
Assad’s motives - and those of the Russians and Iranians that supported him - were simple. To remove those trying to remove him from power. No anti-Sunni racism was involved. None. Assad's wife is a Sunni after all. When a white Russian and a fatwa-issuing non-Alawite Persian2 wanted to help him, he had no problem whatsoever accepting their aid.
What is genocide? It is the attempt (entirely or partially successful) to destroy an entire group of humanity.3 The endless misuse of this term to describe any death of any civilian in any conflict4 is destroying the awful meaning of the term. Please join me in condemning those who do so as the power of language is preserved by its correct usage.
The unfortunate use of genocide and Holocaust terminology by both sides in the Ukraine conflict5, despite the undoubted war crimes being committed by Russia, is equally misplaced. There is no evidence that Russia is trying to wipe out the entire Ukrainian people; they affirm that they are Russians after all6! Meanwhile, Russia claiming that the Jewish leader of Ukraine is a neo-Nazi is totally insulting nonsense of the first degree7.
Israel and the Palestinians
And then we come to Israel and the Palestinians. President Abbas famously claimed that his people had suffered “50 Holocausts”8. What a mendacious claim! Yet in front of Germany’s Chancellor Scholtz, he stated it unrepentantly. While the Jewish population of Europe plummeted in the face of the Nazi Holocaust, the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza has rocketed upwards. The once-sizeable Jewish population of the Arab world is near to extinction, yet Abbas repeats his lies unmoved; his deceit used to deflect the near-total Jewish ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Arab governments.9
