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Saturday, July 23, 2005
John Pilger blames Tony Blair
Blair's bunker-mantra is that there was terrorism long before the invasion, notably 11 September 2001. Anyone with an understanding of the painful history of the Middle East would not have been surprised by 11 September or by the bombings of Madrid and London, only that they had not happened earlier. I have reported the region for 35 years, and if I could describe in a word how millions of Arab and Muslim people felt, I would say "humiliated". When Egypt looked like winning back its captured territory in the 1973 war with Israel, I walked through jubilant crowds in Cairo: it felt as if the weight of history's humiliation had lifted. In a very Egyptian flourish, one man said to me, "We once chased cricket balls at the British Club. Now we are free."
They were not free, of course. The Americans resupplied the Israeli army and they almost lost everything again. In Palestine, the humiliation of a captive people is Israeli policy. How many Palestinian babies have died at Israeli checkpoints after their mothers, bleeding and screaming in premature labour, have been forced to give birth beside the road at a military checkpoint with the lights of a hospital in the distance? How many old men have been forced to make obeisance to young Israeli conscripts? How many families have been blown to bits by American-supplied F-16s using British-supplied parts?
Yet another leftist finds common ground with the islamo-fascists, ignoring their hatred of western civilization.
Posted by gayandright on July 23, 2005 | Permalink
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Pilger asks rhetorically, "How many Palestinian babies have died at Israeli checkpoints after their mothers.... have been forced to give birth beside the road at a military checkpoint with the lights of a hospital in the distance?"
By posing the accusation as a question, Pilger saves himself the trouble of researching how many babies have died. That's lazy journalism.
Posted by: Lona Manning | 2005-07-25 6:24:07 PM
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