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The preemptive war in Iraq is over. Or is it? And the Bush doctrine has been vindicated. Or has it? The attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Bush government’s “war on terror” have both united and divided Americans. And as readers of this journal know,1 the doctrine of preemptive attack has even deepened splits within the dissenting left. It is not yet clear which criteria— which ethical, political, and legal languages and logics—will win control over the evaluation of the new intervention and its consequences. The token “coalition of the willing” notwithstanding, the widest split of all is the one that has opened up between the United States and the rest of the world.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus/Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung [1921] (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963), p. 115.
See Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso, 2000). Zertal’s and Zimmermann’s major works are still untranslated into English, but see the following summary essays: Idith Zertal, “Auschwitz Is Here,” and Moshe Zimmermann, “The Collective Memory of the Victimhood: Comments on the Israeli Reception of the Shoa and its Role in Current Policy,” both in Tsafrir Cohen, Avi Pitchon, and Mirjam Wenzel, eds., Wonderyears (Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, 2003). See also, Gabriel Piterberg’s review of Zertal’s 2002 Ha-Ummah ve ha-Mavet: Historia, Zikkaron, Politika [Death and the Nation: History, Memory, Politics], “Hannah Arendt in Tel Aviv,” New Left Review 21 (May/June 2003), pp. 137–46.
See Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Eagle Has Crash Landed,” Foreign Policy (July/August 2002), pp. 60–8; “Revolts Against the System,” New Left Review 18 (November/December 2002), pp. 29–39; and “Entering Global Anarchy,” New Left Review 22 (July/August 2003), pp. 27–35.
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Ray, G. (2005). Listening with the Third Ear: Echoes from Ground Zero. In: Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory. Studies in European Culture and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979445_10
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