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

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 4, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:

> The ability of imperialist media to blame the victim will never stop
> amazing me.
> 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.
The incompetence of the establishment press will never stop amazing  
me--to say "from Egypt to Saudi Arabia" is like saying "from New York  
to Quebec."
>> 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.
> 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".

Well, the WP hack may have *thought* Iran--but he said "Arab World"  
and Iran is no part of the Arab World, never has been, and never will  
be.

Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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