Thursday, July 31, 2014

"Arab nations silent on Gaza"? For real?

Of course, there is a whole article in the Times about the subject and comrade Kieran tells me that he saw this headline ""CNN DEVELOPING STORY: ARAB NATIONS SILENT ON GAZA".  This is very convenient for the US media: to claim that why criticize Israel when Arab "nations" are silent.  Now it is most convenient (as in the Times story) when they conflate the Arab tyrannical regimes (who are all clients of the US) with the Arab people themselves.  This makes the silence or acquiescence of Sisi and Saudi King representative of the Arab people.  Yesterday, two New York Times reporters even dared to criticize Arab tyrants for their silence.  I replied that it is quite convenient and safe for them to express criticisms of allies of Israel but not of Israel itself.  If you know Arabic, you should just follow the debate and outrage by Arabs from the maghrib to the Gulf about Gaza.