Re: [Marxism] "No Outbursts, No Marches . . . Nothing!"

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/30/06, Mark Lause <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If there were marches and outbursts, it'd be lost in the drumbeating of
> support for Israel.  I've been particularly astonished at the extent the BBC
> is rather blatantly slanting its coverage as well.  There's coverage of the
> Palestinians but the basic framing of the issue is direct from the Israeli
> government.

They see the political vacuum, hear the sound of silence" (other than
from Iran and Algeria**), and know that they can go in for the kill.

We can't just blame Tel Aviv, Washington, Paris, Berlin, etc. for
this.  Mahmoud Abbas turned out to be as much of a problem for
Palestinians as Sharon and Olmert.  And we didn't do what needed to be
done.  Iraq is an outgrowth of Washington's Israeli policy, but US
liberals and leftists, unable to think in a long term, have never
ceased to treat it as the main event, failing to educate the public
about what's really the main event in the Middle East.


* Moscow is a partial exception to the G8 norm:
<http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10582815&PageNum=0>.  But
Russia today is no USSR.

** 
<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885888415&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull>

--
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>

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