Re: [Marxism] Breaking news: Sheik Yassin murdered by Israel!!!

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Me too. Juxtaposing the assasination beside the alleged victims of
the conflict: a clear example of spin. Obviously, the intention is to
have readers believe -- particularly ones without a sharp eye for
propaganda -- that the the majority of the victims in the "conflict"
have been Israeli.

David



From:                   Horacio Oliveira <horaciooliveira@xxxxxxx>

D
> This part of the piece really burns..... why are they only counting the
> suicide attacks in the conflict. Guess like any good colonial/ imperial
> power one does not count the unnamed masses crushed by those massive
> retaliations. Ahh the sickening predictability of it all.
>
> On Mar 21, 2004, at 9:33 PM, David Quarter wrote:
>
> > snipped
>
> > Yassin was by far the most senior Palestinian militant killed in
> > more than three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Since
> > September 2000, 474 people ? the majority of them Israelis ?
> > have been killed in 112 Palestinian suicide bombings.
>
> > snipped
> > .


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