Double standards
This picture was published in the New York Times today. When the rioters set Chinese stores on fire in Tibet. If the Palestinians did that to Israeli stores, the leftists and progressives in the US media would cry out: why do the Palestinians have to do that? Why can't the Palestinians engage in non-violent struggle? Why can't the Palestinians just stick to civil disobedience? Why do the Palestinians have to tarnish their cause like that? And then the Nation magazine would publish an editorial supporting Israeli right to shoot at the rioters. Spare me.
(Thanks to angryarab.blogspot.com)
posted by Iqbal Khaldun @ 10:54 AM
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I agree - I've been really surprised by the media coverage of Tibet, particularly on the BBC. My colleague sent me these links today, some of them are a bit vomit inducing (particularly if you don't turn the music off on the videos) but they do make some interesting points:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1_KuZVrXGc&NR=1
Fresh raw non-manipulated scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQnK5FcKas Riot in Tibet: True face of western media
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/25/content_7851676.htm Foreigners in Tibet: Western media reports not conform with facts
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/25/content_7851808.htm German media apologize for errors in covering Tibet riots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QNKB34cJo Tibet WAS,IS,and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China
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