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Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by today’s Euro-idealists. It was the insecure child of anxiety. Shadowed by history, ...more
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Tony Judt
“Srebrenica was officially ‘protected’ not just by UN mandate but by a 400–strong peacekeeping contingent of armed Dutch soldiers. But when Mladić’s men arrived the Dutch battalion laid down its arms and offered no resistance whatsoever as Serbian troops combed the Muslim community, systematically separating men and boys from the rest. The next day, after Mladić had given his ‘word of honor as an officer’ that the men would not be harmed, his soldiers marched the Muslim males, including boys as young as thirteen, out into the fields around Srebrenica. In the course of the next four days nearly all of them—7,400—were killed. The Dutch soldiers returned safely home to Holland.”
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

عباس محمود العقاد
“من الأقوال الشائعة أن الشباب يبدأ حياته «خياليًّا»، ثم يصير إلى الواقع شيئًا فشيئًا حتى ينكر كل خيال … لكنني أذكر أن البداءة معي كانت على خلاف هذه القاعدة، وأنني الآن أقل إيمانًا بما يسمونه التفكير الواقعي مما كنت في مستهل الشباب. ففي مقدمة «خلاصة اليومية» وهي أول كتاب طبعته قبل عشرين سنة قلت ألخص الأفكار التي جمعتها في تلك الخلاصة: أولًا: إن كل ظواهر هذا الكون علويها وسفليها، ظاهرها وباطنها، نتيجة تفاعل القوى المختلفة … وكذلك الأمر في الاجتماع البشري … ثانيًا: إن اللذة والألم أو — بعبارة أعم — المنفعة والضرر هما الدعامتان اللتان عليهما تقوم الأخلاق البشرية كافة … ثالثًا: إن الإنسان حيوان راقٍ، ولكنه لا يزال «حيوانًا» … فهذه نظرة «واقعية» لا أومن بها الآن بعد أن جاوزت الأربعين، وليس يتسع المقام هنا لتفصيل الخلاف بين رأيي في العشرين ورأيي في الأربعين، فهذا مجال واسع كثير الشُّعَب كثير التفاصيل،”
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Tony Judt
“The United Nations showed little initial concern—its inadequate and unconcerned Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, described Bosnia as ‘a rich man’s war’—”
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt
“Solidarity was financed largely from the US and it was the US that gave the most insistent official encouragement to protesters in Berlin and elsewhere—once it was clear that they would probably win.”
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt
“Serbian shelling of Sarajevo resumed. When NATO planes bombed Bosnian Serb installations in response, the Serbs seized 350 UN peacekeepers as hostages. Terrified for the fate of their soldiers, Western governments importuned the UN and NATO to desist. The international presence, far from constraining the Serbs, now offered them additional cover.”
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

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