[lit-ideas] Re: are we not talking anymore?
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:07:39 -0700
Omar,
I appreciate your post. US media has a maddening habit of over-simplifying
conflicts, including this one. Ted Koppel pointed out some complexities
(such as Hezbollah's well-earned popularity) in a brief news report. He was
shut up quickly. A NYT story spoke of Israel's economic blockade of those
who elected Hamas, but that, too, was underplayed to the point of not being
known here, among the masses.
From what I read in the watered-down American-Jewish press, this strike is
Israel pulling out all the stops. American-Jewish papers (and rare but
occasional radio reports) play the Israeli bombings as Israel, in its last
gasp, saying "Never again." There may be some truth to this sentiment, but
it's mostly PR.
Guess it's time to read the UK papers and ignore the American ones.
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 4:49 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: are we not talking anymore?
>
> I am spending the summer in Montenegro and I've been a
> bit taken up by this and that, but I'm back with you
> now. I glad that there has been some discussion of the
> Israel-Palestine-Lebanon conflict. Some comments on
> what I have read so far: first, to present Hizbollah
> as simply a proxy of Iran is rather simplistic. See:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1821035,00.html
>
> Another thing is, I wonder if the people here are
> aware that Israel (with the help of the US and the
> EU)has kept Gaza under full economic blockade ever
> since the elections. See the article I posted under
> "Starving Palestine" a month or two ago.
>
> O.K.
>
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