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[Guest guest]

umm

does anyone have any info on something i just heard..that some of those images

of dancing palestinians, are from 1991!!!!

there is an indy media site in isreal, which is suppose to be where this story

came from, but, it's in hebrew and my system at work won't let me open it

correctly

a little help..please

fraggle

[Guest guest]

Hi Fraggle

 

> umm

> does anyone have any info on something i just heard..that some of those

images of dancing palestinians, are from 1991!!!!

> there is an indy media site in isreal, which is suppose to be where this

story came from, but, it's in hebrew and my system at work won't let me open

it correctly

> a little help..please

 

I came across this the other day! (BTW, I am posting " as is " - I haven't

re-read, just copied and pasted!!):

 

BB

Peter

 

Brazil

 

By Márcio A. V. Carvalho

 

All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge news distributors, and

one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, I guess all of you have

been seeing (just as I've been) images from this company. In particular, one

set of images called my attention: the Palestinians celebrating the bombing,

out on the streets, eating some cake and making funny faces for the camera.

 

Well, those images were shot back in 1991. Those are images of Palestinians

celebrating the invasion of Kuwait! It's simply unacceptable that a

super-power of communications as CNN uses images which do not correspond to

the reality in talking about so serious an issue.

 

A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes recorded in 1991, with the

very same images; he's been sending e-mails to CNN, Globo (the major TV

network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself classify as a

crime against the public opinion.

 

But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your people are

hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast have very high

possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians. It's

simply irresponsible to show images such as those.

 

Finally, I'd like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has

happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don't want

to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had shown no

respect for other countries in the last decades.

 

In the 60s and 70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout the

world (including Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the

Washington Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our economies,

making us more and more dependant (and, many of us, preoccupied with this

situation).

 

Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star Wars,

Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external debt, tha

abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations between IRA and

England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those mistakes in US

external politics made your country more hatred than before, and, of course,

more vulnerable.

 

Listen, I'm NOT justifying the terrorist actions that took place in your

country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another

path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn't be suffering what you are now.

 

Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of all

of us.

 

Márcio A. V. Carvalho

 

State University of Campinas - Brazil

 

 

 

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