Writing on his blog, Miller called the occupiersnothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. The New York Observer agreed that the “vitriolic rant” was “not well-received.”Nearly everybody agreed that Miller had written a rant. By a sly use of hypertext, Miéville is able to imply, without bothering to say outright, that the state of Israel has the deliberate policy of starving the children of Gaza. China Miéville is a literary coward who hides behind hypertextual cleverness to avoid taking ownership of his political opinions. To the artist’s bag of lying devices can now be added hypertext.