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Sobre a morte de Saramago, escreveu:

Jose Saramago, Nobel laureate in literature and anti-Semite, died Friday aged 87.

It was Judaism itself that Saramago blamed for everything he disliked in Israel.

When such personages hurl wild allegations, they are congratulated in some quarters for their “courage,” their willingness to “speak out.” What is interesting about the life of Jose Saramago is that it offers an actual test case of just how much courage these anti-Israel writers in fact possess.

Unlike Chomsky, Vidal, Zinn, Klein and the others, Saramago spent most of his life living in an unfree country. From the time Saramago was 10 until the year he turned 52, Saramago’s Portugal was ruled by dictatorship. It was not an especially bloodthirsty dictatorship, but it censored the press, detained dissenters and waged a harsh war to hold onto its colonies in Africa. And during all that time, Jose Saramago did not speak out. He published some apolitical poetry. In 1969, he joined Portugal’s clandestine Communist Party. But so long as it was risky to speak, Saramago kept quiet.

Anda aí uma catraiada que quer subir na vida dando nas vistas com bandeirinhas e outras coisas próprias de cortejo de Queima das Fitas que achou muito bem o que escriba estrangeiro escreveu.

Não sou particularmente conhecedor de Saramago, só li dois livros dele (gostei bastante), e a necrofilia nacional que as televisões transmitem parece-me caricata, não me choca alguém dizer que não aprecia a obra dele e critique o que ele fez no passado, porém há limites.

De David Frum fiquei a saber que é um canalha, de Nuno Gouveia fiquei a saber que o tem como exemplo. Gente a evitar mas que é um bom indicador sobre as organizações que apoiarem.