Friday, January 09, 2009

On Turkey and the Huffington Post

A reader sent me this: "What were these "to be fair" comments of yours, about the Huff post, and about the Turkish PM. I was surprised. Both continued their homage to Israel throughout this crisis. The huff post posting 5 pro-Israel articles for every one balanced article is not courage. Some tough words from the Turkish PM? More like empty fluff. Turkey has been a bigger friend to Israel than all the traitor Arab regimes together. Will Turkey sever ties? Never. Turkey and Israel share an ideological founding based on the genocide of indigenous peoples, and are both sustained by a neofascist mono-ethno state ideology. The huff post posting 5 pro-Israel articles for every 1 balanced article is not courage. I ate at a Vietnamese eatery here in Chicago, and I learned more about the Israeli massacres in Gaza on the Vietnamese news station in 20 minutes, than after 2 weeks of watching English-language reports, and I don't understand a word of Vietnamese."