[Marxism] Blaming the victim [ was Re: Gaza attack splits Arab rulers and the ruled]

[Nestor Gorojovsky <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

The ability of imperialist media to blame the victim will never stop 
amazing me. I think that this must be one of the first courses offered 
in every school of journalism: "Blame the victim 101".

Take this, for instance, by the Washington Post and resent by Louis Proyect:

> From Egypt to Saudi Arabia, longtime leaders of the Arab world, the 
> attacks illustrated a yawning divide between the policies of rulers
> and the sentiments of those they rule. Although the Palestinian cause
> is cherished on the street, the region's leaders are viewed as paying
> only lip service to it.
> 
> The gulf between the two is not uncommon in a region that remains,
> with few exceptions, authoritarian.
> 

I would rather think that the region remains, with few exceptions, 
semicolonial... If a single, true, democratic government in the region 
attempted to close that divide, it would become automatically a Satan 
for thesame media who Satanize as "authoritarian" the current regimes.

Iran bears witness. You can say many things on Iran. But the "divide" is 
quite closed there. And what does the WP say of Iran?

"Lip service".

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