Friday, December 18, 2009

The TV of King Fahd's Brother-in-law: whatever you want, o Israel

So I was watching the news of Al-Arabiyyah TV, and basically the Arab-Israeli conflict has ended, and Israel has withdrawn from all occupied Arab lands. That is the message you receive in Saudi propaganda stations. They begin the news and end them with stories (real and often fabricated) about Iranian advances, invasions, plots, schemes, and conspiracies. The every anti-Semitic conspiratorial scenarios that have filled Saudi propaganda for decades, are now switched to damn the "Persians". Let us face it: no one is more skilled at hate, prejudice, and bigotry than the House of Saud and their Wahhabi allies. So the news this morning started with an "Iranian invasion" of an Iraqi...oil field. The anchor went on talking at length about that horrible violation of Iraqi sovereignty--a sovereignty that is preserved by tens of thousands of US troops, of course--and the report ended--YES ENDED--with a quotation from an official at the Iraqi oil ministry denying the very story that you just heard. Kid you not. Aljazeera, on the other hand, began the news with a report on the Guardian story about CIA training and sponsorship of PA torturers.