Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Max Blumenthal : Neda in Palestine, Sentenced to Die Alone

For over a week, major American news outlets have broadcast on a virtual loop the video of the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, an unarmed 26-year-old Iranian woman, by Iranian security services. The poignant footage of Neda dying before a throng of grief-stricken bystanders crystallized the vulnerability experienced by the millions of demonstrators who have filled cities across Iran to confront authoritarian forces determined to suppress their voice through brutal means. When the mainstream American press chose to broadcast the graphic video -- as moving as the footage is, it is difficult to watch -- it made a commendable decision that nonetheless highlighted its hypocritical attitude towards Palestinians who resist Israeli occupation on a daily basis, and who often meet the same fate as Neda.
Max Blumenthal for the Huffington Post
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6 comments:

  1. GuestJuly 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM

    Obviously, Arab terrorists aren't like Iranian victims of a jihadi regime

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  2. MarionJuly 1, 2009 at 6:53 AM

    Eric Wallberg's intersting take on Iran:

    <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eric Walberg</span></span>

    http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/07/absolutely-brilliant-piece-by-eric.html

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  3. GuestJuly 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    FASCISM

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  4. GuestJuly 1, 2009 at 12:05 PM

    Let's talk fascism:

    When the Muslims ruled OUR land, Jews were forbidden from entering the tomb where OUR ancestors are buried in Hebron. 
     
    When Muslims ruled OUR land, Jews were forbidden from visiting OUR holies site, the Temple Mount. 

    In fact, the Arabs also ethnically cleansed ALL Jews from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza in 1948 (1929 in Hebron, Gaza City, part of Jerusalem, and other places). 
     
    Perhaps quid pro quo is the way to go- eh? Maybe we should do it their way.

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  5. MarionJuly 1, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    <h1><span style="">A United Opposition </span></h1>
    <h1><span style="">Hezbollah After the Elections </span></h1>

    <span style="">By FRANKLIN LAMB </span>
    <span style="">Dahiyeh.</span>

    http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb06302009.html

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  6. GuestJuly 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.

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