01-11-2009, 12:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2009, 03:44 PM by Peter Presland.)
I spotted this Friday on URUKNET and had intended to post it as a good illustration of why Mark - or anybody else - must not feel obliged to refrain from discussion of Zionism on DPF.
I'm too pre-occupied elsewhere to engage as effectively as I would wish with the issue right now. Suffice to say that Dr Barghuti is as qualified, credible and capable a representative of the Palestinian case as there is, which is precisely why his appearance on a networked US show caused such faux outrage. It demonstrates two things very clearly:
1. The Zionist fear of allowing the Palestinian case to BE heard at all.
2. The power of the Zionist lobby in the US (and elswhere) to effectively suppress the Palestinian case.
I posted this video back in January. Dr Barghuti features prominently in it. It was made by CBS and attracted similar vitriol at the time. Playing it again today I had to try 3 times before getting past the introductory Intel advertisement, so you may have to persevere. I recommend it because, coming from a near MS US outfit with the consequent 'sensitivities' on all things Israeli/Palestinian necessarily involved, it nonetheless gives a startling insight into the present Israeli/Palestinian situation and the sort of things Dr Barghuti has to put up with at home.
I challenge anyone here - and especially those who seem to regard the anti-Zionist case as 'Bullshit' - to watch it and tell me why Dr Baghuti should be given anything other than equal air-time to any Zionist on networked US media - let alone be effectively banned from it altogether.
I'm too pre-occupied elsewhere to engage as effectively as I would wish with the issue right now. Suffice to say that Dr Barghuti is as qualified, credible and capable a representative of the Palestinian case as there is, which is precisely why his appearance on a networked US show caused such faux outrage. It demonstrates two things very clearly:
1. The Zionist fear of allowing the Palestinian case to BE heard at all.
2. The power of the Zionist lobby in the US (and elswhere) to effectively suppress the Palestinian case.
I posted this video back in January. Dr Barghuti features prominently in it. It was made by CBS and attracted similar vitriol at the time. Playing it again today I had to try 3 times before getting past the introductory Intel advertisement, so you may have to persevere. I recommend it because, coming from a near MS US outfit with the consequent 'sensitivities' on all things Israeli/Palestinian necessarily involved, it nonetheless gives a startling insight into the present Israeli/Palestinian situation and the sort of things Dr Barghuti has to put up with at home.
I challenge anyone here - and especially those who seem to regard the anti-Zionist case as 'Bullshit' - to watch it and tell me why Dr Baghuti should be given anything other than equal air-time to any Zionist on networked US media - let alone be effectively banned from it altogether.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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