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February 2010

BLOCKADE? WHAT BLOCKADE? CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER

        In the classic novel “1984,” author George Orwell gives this famous example of how language is manipulated:. “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” What then would Orwell call “blockade”? A generally accepted definition of a blockade might be “the isolating of a place…. preventing entrance or exit…” (Random […]