Cartoon from Yaakov Kirschen's Dry Bones Blog.
Close on 100 people have been killed in the current fighting in Lebanon but it isn't getting the close scrutiny or the saturation publicity of the 2006 War. Why is nobody concerned about the causalty figures let alone their breakdown between Druze, Sunni and Shia and between combatants and non-combatants?
Perhaps it all comes down to proportionality? Hundreds of thousands have been killed in Darfur over the past few years but the slaughter over there has engendered far less publicity than the 2006 War and only a miniscule amount when compared to the effects of the intifada unleashed by Arafat in 2000?
Anyone have an answer?
Close on 100 people have been killed in the current fighting in Lebanon but it isn't getting the close scrutiny or the saturation publicity of the 2006 War. Why is nobody concerned about the causalty figures let alone their breakdown between Druze, Sunni and Shia and between combatants and non-combatants?
Perhaps it all comes down to proportionality? Hundreds of thousands have been killed in Darfur over the past few years but the slaughter over there has engendered far less publicity than the 2006 War and only a miniscule amount when compared to the effects of the intifada unleashed by Arafat in 2000?
Anyone have an answer?
Lebanon
ReplyDeleteIraq
Palestinian terr.
Afghanistan
Kashmir
India {again]
Chechnya
Philippines
Indonesia
Somalia
Sudan
Pakistan
Algeria
Thailand
The streets of New York,London,Spain,bali,Jakarta etc etc
WHAT IS THE ONE THING ALL THESE PLACES HAVE IN IN COMMON?