Gaza vs. Congo: A Tale of Media Double Standards
Two conflicts with remarkably similar characteristics yet shockingly disparate press coverage.
Given the similarities, one would expect to get an equal level of media coverage on the two conflicts. I must admit that until yesterday, I knew nothing about the situation in the DRC and I think it would be a safe bet that most of you have not heard about this conflict until today. Here’s why.
A Google News search I ran on a mix of keywords relating to the two conflicts, the respective terrorist organizations involved, and the newsworthy anecdotes of the conflicts showed that reporting has been evidently skewed. When adjusted to factor in the newsworthiness of the story, as measured by the number of civilian deaths involved in the incident, the bias is beyond just proportion.
|
Coverage |
Ratio |
Adjusted |
|
Hamas: LRA |
67:1 |
202:1 |
|
Gaza crisis: Uganda crisis |
136:1 |
409:1 |
|
UN School bombing: Church Massacre |
242:1 |
807:1 |
Without getting into a debate about the morality of the operation in Gaza (see my other article on that subject), surely you would have to agree that a story about a civilian killed by an errant shell (aimed at rocket launchers 30 meters away) is not 807 times more newsworthy that a civilian hacked to death in a church on Christmas Day. While admittedly a higher standard of responsibility is rightly applied to a democratic state than an African terrorist group, surely the responsibility for the safeguarding of civilian life in enemy territory is somewhat mitigated by its right to defend the citizens of its own territory.
Confronted with two crises of a similar scale evolving over the same timeframe, the media chose to devote its full attention to one while blankly ignoring the other. Looking at these statistics, the mainstream media has little right to preach the doctrine of proportionality.
So, what makes a reporter decide to write yet another article about the crisis in Gaza rather than break the news from the DRC? The only plausible explanation for this disproportionate coverage is racism. It seems that while no one wants to read about another thousand dead Africans, everyone wants to read about those “warmongering Jews.” And so a pogrom of media reporting begins.
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1. Andrea Fuzzi:We GOP haven’t Gov responsability and we just look for resurgence and worldwide rehab
Jan 17, 2009 - 3:04 am 2. eon:No doubt the story from Congo got lost in the usual miasma of “just another bunch of nutty Christian fanatics” that permeates the echo chamber we call the mainstream media. (Bernard Goldberg covered this subject rather well in his books on the MSM.) And it’s far from the first time that anti-Western fanatics have “covered” themselves by claiming to be “Christians”- if you don’t believe me, Google “Jim Jones”, “People’s Temple”, “Jonestown”, and/or “George Moscone” and “Harvey Milk”. (Most crime historians agree that the latter two were murdered as the last act in Jones’ apocalyptic fantasy, the “Twinkie Defense” notwithstanding.)
To see two historical examples that closely parallel the present violence in the Congo but on a vaster scale, Google “Taiping Rebellion” and “Boxer Rebellion”. The latter (in 1900) was primarily aimed at murdering Chinese Christians en masse; the former (in 1862-64)was led by a peasant who had convinced himself that he was, in fact, the “younger brother of Jesus”. And he, too, intended to establish a “kingdom” based on the Ten Commandments; in Chinese, “tai-ping” means “heavenly peace”. The Tai-Pings also believed in mass murder as the path to “enlightenment”. The diference being, in this case, instead of UN “peacekeepers”, the Tai-Ping “army” (which was anything but small or poorly armed)was met by a smaller, but better-trained army, led by a general who would go down in history under the nom de guerre’ he earned in defeating the Tai-Pings; Charles George “Chinese” Gordon (1833-1885).
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Jan 17, 2009 - 5:15 am 3. furious_a:Much more acceptable to cast a harsh light on the already out-of-fashion Jewish state than it is to call out the ongoing barbarism in black Africa.
IOW, both the bigotry and reverse bigotry that infests the Left and their media enablers.
Jan 17, 2009 - 6:34 am 4. Jeff Weimer:I’m sure no small part of this is related to the broader geopolitical implications to our interests in the region – Iraq, Iran, Syria, et al. The tragedy in the DRC is unfortunately “just another humanitarian tragedy” in that it’s effect on our future policies isn’t known yet.
Jan 17, 2009 - 6:35 am 5. David P:Stories about the Congo are ignored because it doesn’t help the Islamic worlds propaganda war against the Zionists.
Jan 17, 2009 - 9:06 am 6. My2Cents:3 reasons that there are reports from Israel and not from Congo.
3. Israel has good hotels and safe food is available anywhere.
2. You do not need to have armed guards to be safe on the streets of Israel.
And most importantly:
Jan 17, 2009 - 9:52 am 7. DavidN:1. The Israeli government follows the ‘rule of law’. A reporter might get told to leave the country, but he will not get stuff in a prison without trial, beaten to death in public, or gunned down by a government assassin.
If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no reporter there to tell everyone that it happened…it never fell in the first place.
Jan 17, 2009 - 2:39 pm 8. Marc Malone:I’ll ge honest: Personally, I don’t give a rat’s ass about African barbarity. I’m like most Americans that way. It just isn’t news to me. I’m a conservative and a Christian, but I simply can’t find any sympathy, even when I see the pictures. All I can do is shake my head at more of the same.
The DRC is a mess. No shock there. Zimbabwe has collapsed. That’s a little shocking, until you think that such is basically inevitable in most of Africa. It’s like news of a huge traffic pikeup in a land where people drive on whichever side of the road they please. The underlying cause is clear and the people themselves never do anything about it. All one can do is shake one’s head.
I would rather see coverage of the conflict in Gaza. I just wish it were balanced. It’s just sad that the only pro-Israel coverage one gets is from Joe the Plumber.
Jan 17, 2009 - 3:15 pm 9. cedarford:I’ll echo Mark Malone – and add I think most Americans are infinitely weary of the “double standard” lecture where we are told we cannot help one group because whe cannot or will not simultaneously help all groups in need.
It is completely inane, and both the Left and the Right use it.
1. How can we fight malaria in Africa when we are not fighting Cholera in Peru?
2. How can we justify “liberating” Iraq when we are not “liberating” Burma?
3. Why are environmentalists fighting to save the Giant Blue Tuna but not the Yemeni purple-bellied sand minnow?
4. How can reporters criticize Israel when there is not equal reporting from the Congo, about Mexican drug towns, or Han Chinese also building Settlements on Tibetan land they said was subject to their own Balfour Declaration?
5. Why are Mormon volunteers rebuilding 7 houses wrecked by tornado in Indiana but ignoring 5 houses in nearby Kentucky?
It’s stupid beyond belief. The person raising the double standard which is mainly a vapid “shame vehicle” to belittle people helping or focusing on one matter or the other while the critics sit on their asses and carp away.
Dislike the US and volunteers fighting Malaria but not Peruvian cholera? Fine, what is to stop you from organizing and getting other governments to hit Peru with aid.
Think we shouldn’t have invaded Iraq while leaving Burma alone. Fine, then advocate for a massive US military buildup or hector the Indians to “save Burma” or launch a boycott.
Love the purple bellied sand minnow and hate the people saving tuna for ignoring them? Fine, go to Yemen and save the little fishies yourself.
Think present media and taxpayer dollars over-focus on the ME? Fine, then demand we treat Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza with the commensurate attention and money we give to other sh*tty little nations locked in eternal conflict elsewhere.
Jan 17, 2009 - 4:26 pm 10. Shef Rogers:Or dispatch create and dispatch Zionist and Christian Zionist reporters to the Congo and other African shitholes to end <b?the double standard and report on the endless black barbarism Mark Malone, I, and most Americans honestly wouldn’t give a crap about even if you do report it – or are personally willing in anyway to risk your own ass or money “helping out”.
Pretending that the Mediterranean Basin and Central Africa share the same rules is just plain dishonest. They don’t, and they never have, and arguing that Israel hasn’t yet reached a Congolese level of barbarity is an argument born of desperation, the product of a guilty conscience.
Jan 17, 2009 - 4:55 pm 11. Nancy Albert:A year ago, a hitherto unknown candidate for president of Uganda, who had benefitted from fellow tribesman Obama’s campaigning on his behalf during a taxpayer funded trip, Raila Odinga, lost. The man is a socialist and a member of a Muslim tribe, the Luo. Their carnage of over 1000 Christians as a result was ignored. 100 MW&C were cornered in a church and burned alive. Many more rapes and amputations occurred. Condelezza Rice finally diffused the situation in a power-sharing deal with Odinga becoming Prime Minister.
There wasn’t any war in Gaza to distract the coverage then, only scales on the eyes of the media. If The One can’t control his cousin from inflicting religious genocide, what can we expect?
Jan 17, 2009 - 5:41 pm 12. Nancy Albert:Oops please correct this!!!! It was Kenya. A senior moment.
Jan 17, 2009 - 6:03 pm 13. R:There is an important similarity here. In both cases, Eternal VictimsTM benefit from an eternal licence to kill from the West. In one case, it’s Paul Kagame’s Tutsi regime in Rwanda and his proxies in the Congo, and in the other, it’s Israel fulfilling Moshe Dayan’s promise: “The situation today resembles the complex relationship between a Bedouin man and a girl he kidnaps against her will. You Palestinians as a nation don’t want us today, but we’ll change your attitude by forcing our presence on you. You will live like dogs and whoever will leave will leave.”
Jan 17, 2009 - 8:13 pm 14. NMSC:Of course. When the killers are black Africans, we don’t cover it here out of fear of offending black and brown people or just in case we look like racists.
Jan 17, 2009 - 8:33 pm 15. RF:Things that are important have become unimportant, and things that are unimportant…will get you elected.
Jan 17, 2009 - 11:33 pm 16. Gozer the Carpathian:Unfortunetly the reason we don’t cover it is that it’s boring. It’s the same old same old out of Africa. Now if we INVADED Africa to civilize them you’d bet to high heaven it’d be news.
Jan 17, 2009 - 11:36 pm 17. Peter Eichstaedt:I invite you to see my new book on Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army, titled First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. See more about it at http://www.firstkillyourfamily.com and follow the issue at http://www.petereichstaedt.blogspot.com
Jan 18, 2009 - 7:31 am 18. mohammed:6. My2Cents:
The Israeli government follows the ‘rule of law
Haha. Keep deceiving yourself. Israel like america only follows the law it chooses. A country that elects rapist’s as president and murderers as prime ministers.
Jan 18, 2009 - 9:24 am 19. mohammed:Ask Elie Hobeika who had evidence of ariel sharon’s involvment in a massacre and was blown to pieces.
6. My2Cents:
The Israeli government follows the ‘rule of law
‘Exerpt of a news report.
In a BBC documentary broadcast last year which investigated Mr Sharon’s involvement, an Israeli officer reported overhearing Mr Hobeika being asked by a soldier what he should do with 50 women and children he was holding in the camps.
According to the Israeli soldier, Mr Hobeika replied: “That’s the last time you’re going to ask me a question like that. You know exactly what to do”.
The soldier said Mr Hobeika’s militiamen then burst into raucous laughter.’
Israel follows the rule of law??? in your dreams, keep dreaming. Hope you can still post when you wake up.
Jan 18, 2009 - 9:27 am 20. JFM:Mr Mohammed
How about the Kurds you gassed? Was that rule of law? How about the Sudanese blacks you murder, rape and enslave is that rule of law? How about the Berbers you impaled in Algeria is that rule of law? How about the dozens of Shabras and Shaktuilas you perpetrated agaibnts Lebanese Christians before they decided to take revenge and did the one you mention? Was that rule of law? How about the Syrian city of Hamza? Was that rule of law? How about giving lack the jizya you stolme from Christians and Jews and the lands and properties of Oriental Jews you stole on 1948 and who lived in all of Middle East since well before the Arab invasions and even before the Romans?
Jan 18, 2009 - 12:28 pm 21. k:The answer is: the war in Congo doesn’t include Jewish people. Therefore, there aren’t a bunch of people making up lies, conspiracies, and desperately attempting to spread hate propaganda.
Jan 18, 2009 - 12:38 pm 22. SEW:It is not politically correct to demonstrate blacks as bad guys. Only white males, American military of any race or color, and jooes are bad in the politically correct world.
Jan 18, 2009 - 3:59 pm 23. qwfwq:The people carrying out these barbarities are most assuredly not Christians–whatever they may believe.
Jan 18, 2009 - 6:08 pm 24. Dave:It is certainly more Newsworthy to watch 1.5 million people with NOWHERE to flee, being ‘accidentally’ slaughtered in UN schools and buildings in the 27×5 sq miles of the Gaza strip-the world’s largest jail.
The use of White Phosphorus made for good fireworks; the sizzle and charring that followed afterwords was unmatched viewing.
Your rather delayed and sanctimonious concern about the Congolese victims is much appreciated.
Jan 19, 2009 - 4:58 am 25. BC:Keep up the smoke screen without the use of White Phosphorus
Shmucks. When right wing apologists tried to reframe the Iraq war as a war of liberation when the WMD and “ties with al-Qaeda” BS didn’t exactly work out, it was pointed out that the Congo needed liberating far more urgently than Iraq. US foreign policy under Republicans presidents has been to lie & distort first, pass on the consequences later.
Jan 19, 2009 - 6:22 am 26. JFM:It is certainly more Newsworthy to watch 1.5 million people with NOWHERE to flee,
I thought they had hundreds of millions of Arab brothers who have loooooots of space waiting to open them their arms. Oh wait, Lybia has expelled them towarss Gaza and Palestinians are the only Arabs who cannot get Saudi nationality. Now, why is that you don’t put them at Arab feet?
being ‘accidentally’ slaughtered in UN schools and buildings in the 27×5 sq miles of the Gaza strip-the world’s largest jail.
It was not accidental at all. Hamas fired from them fully conscuient it was endangering civilians and fully willing Israeli retaliation causing civilan losses and fuel Hamas propaganda.
For the world’s margest kail, I suppose that you have to jail people who between other things have tried, really tried like in suicide bombing not as a missile going astray, to bomb maternities and where child killer Samir Kuntar is a hero. In Irael his own mother would throw him out of the house and disinfect the floor after it.
Also about the 2.7 million people. Well, there was a Palestinian woman who wanted to have many, many children and make suicide bombers of each one. This works because, we, western tax payers pay for their rearing. Well, stop subsidizing Gaza, force this woman to work hard to feed her future suicide bombers and work extra hard if whe wants Kasams too.
The use of White Phosphorus made for good fireworks; the sizzle and charring that followed afterwords was unmatched viewing.
The Red Cross has denied that Israeli Army had ever used WP against people, only as a smoke agent ie in order to avoid being killed by Hams war criminals.
And now, while I admit that the author has with Congo selected a bad example due to LRA being an out of control group le’s talk of the genocide the Arabs are perpetrating in Darfur (and not by an out of control group).
But I guess these no longer inteest you since these are just niggers to you? Or is it because unlike Palestians they aren’t hard at work trying to exterminate the Jews? Nicht War, mein Herr?
Jan 19, 2009 - 8:05 am 27. Big Ben:I agree in Part only;
Jan 19, 2009 - 10:36 am 28. John from Toronto:The “world” is and always has been facinated by the Jews.
If the Jews were doing the killing in the Congo, it would be front page news.
Similar to a Jewish embezzler; the media can not restrain itself to overtly or impliedly make the Jewish connection known. When is the last time you some someone identified as ‘the Baptist inside-trader” or “the methodist serial scammer”.
A more apt comparison might be with Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers.
Jan 19, 2009 - 1:43 pm 29. 99Stang:Nancy posted on the 17th and stated that Obama’s relative was running for President in Uganda.
Jan 19, 2009 - 2:58 pm 30. The Light:FALSE
She mentioned that the Luo are a Muslim tribe FALSE
The Odinga family are Luo but they are KENYANS.
The Luo tribe is not Muslim. Religion is a personal choice for them. The closest relatives of theirs in Uganda are the Acholi.
Oginga Odinga (father of Raila) is seen as an elder statesman by the Luo tribe and until now, was the only true political power any non-Kikuyu had in the country. The last Luo polititian of any importance was Tom Mboya.
Note: I lived there in the 1970s and 1980s and my teachers and schoolmates were Luo, so I know what I am talking about.
Dear Mohammad,
I would like El Quida to support a movie like Walz With Bashir, done by Israelis, using the real voices of those who were there….an honest look in your own eyes to admit mistakes and find the truth…and then have the Israeli government PAY to distribute it worldwide (it got the Golden Globe) although it does NOT present the Israelis as all innocent. When NPR reporter asked the producer (Uri F?) how come? the answer was “because we are a democracy!”
Jan 19, 2009 - 7:19 pm 31. DAVE:There were more friendly fire casualties in the Gaza operation than many wars. Why? becaue IDF did their best to avoid hurting civilians. If the Palestinianss were the enemy, why they were provided with medical treatment in Israel? Why no other Arab country allowed Doctors Without Borders airplains to land? Israel did. Did you ever find out what happened to the millions of dollars that America the European countries handed to Arafat? probably barried under their mensions and in Swiss bank accounts…no infrastructure, no hospitals, no schools…all you guys do is scream, where is the voice that says no more victims, we take responsibility and show the world that we deserve protection.
JFM:
It is reprehensible that you should use the ‘N’
word to refer to the Congolese people.
Spin doctor read what the rest of the world is saying. Thanks to the Internet,no ammount of sophistry can deceive in perpetuity.
Jan 19, 2009 - 9:56 pm 32. JFM:Dave
You are spinning it, It was real clear that used the nigger word not for referring to Congolese people but for translating the thoughts of the N.z.s (that is another N word) who in fact aren’t concerned either by Blacks (that is the word I use for my thoughts), by Tamuls or even by Palestinians (hear their deafening silence when they are victims of their Arab brothers or from their own terrorist movements) but in helping and contributing to a second final solution, that both the PLO and the Hamas have explictly told it was their goal.
And if Blacks are really Blacks to you and not niggers how many times have you demonstrated in front of the Sudanese embassy, how many times have you called for the boycott of their products and how many Sudanese flags have you burned?
Jan 20, 2009 - 1:58 am 33. vel:The comparison of Palestine to Congo is valid in other respects, too. Here is an article from two and a half years ago on the issue of “viability” of the projected Palestinian state, titled “Congo and the Palestine” http://www.rootoutterrorism.com/blog.shtml#2006-05-25
Jan 20, 2009 - 6:44 am 34. Mike:The Palestinians in Gaza are like the blacks in america who live in Public Housing. They will never change their actions because they don’t have to – someone will always be there to take care of there every need.
Jan 20, 2009 - 10:13 am 35. TJHillgardner:Both stories should be covered equally. There is media bias in the fact that has not happened. I find it funny (ironic) that some here perceive the media bias as rooted in some anti-Zionist or anti-white conspiracy. Actually the difference in coverage has more to do with geographic limitations on the Internet infrastructure, the ability of reporters to actually operate in certain military zones, and the laziness of many oldtime media organization reporters who prefer to rely on reporting-by-press release. Also, in the large cosmopolitan cities of the United States the reader/viewership of most media outlets is more Jewish/Arab than Congolese/Ugandan and the news media perceives their audience as wanting this kind of news. Finally, when you look at the people in charge of these large media organizations who are being accused of this anti-Zionist bias walk into synagogues on Park Avenue in New York City, you have to wonder how this theory has any legs at all.
Jan 20, 2009 - 10:31 am 36. Roy M:The BBC has being good coverage of the DRC/Rwanda for years. Intrestingly the parallel between Isreal and Rwanda has been explicitly drawn by the BBC (today!)at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7839922.stm
Jan 20, 2009 - 11:25 am 37. paul_unalaska:I have to agree with some of the commenters regarding the DRC. Heck, Africa for that matter.
More of the same-o same-o occurring on the African continent. Oppression is ever so present, now being administered their now elected black leaders.
You won’t find white journalists about. The white demographic north of South Africa is such: South Africans for contractual reasons only. And can guarantee they have a calendar in their office, hangar, etc., to when they leave. The South Africans will go into detail how horrible South Africa has become actually due to Mandela and his predecessors..
Belgian, French & English reps from Unicef, U.N. respectively. Much of Africa being a former French, English colony at one time and the U.N. based out of Brussels, you get the picture. These folks are pleasant enough. Those who stay long periods of time than needed are due to the ridiculous costs of living, maintaining a residence in Europe. More times than not if they own, they rent their flat to people to just cover their mortgage. Would you like to live in your own home with a couple or more flatmates?
Lastly, Peace Corps volunteers. Though these people are extremely irritating and remind one of a 19 year old… having the ‘answer’ to everything – though every response is never thought out well.
Jan 20, 2009 - 11:49 am 38. Marie Claude:the thing is that the Congolese conflict doesn’t affect our every-day life like the Israel/Hamas’s, the Congolese will not start an intifada in our cities surburbs
Jan 20, 2009 - 12:51 pm 39. Thomas:From a very different but valid perspective:
If a large group of topless and skirt-less white women walked about casually in a western city and in a supermarket, many spectator would express harsh condemnation and accusations of lascivious, indecent behavior.
In Africa, women with uncovered breast is absolute normal ubiquitous sight, provoking no criticism nor outrage: one can see naked people on documentary movies in abundance and we just shrug…
This is because we have different expectations from different people and we are conditioned this way ab ovo (from the beginning).
In Africa anything goes: genocide, rape, murder, tribal warfare, you name it – this is the normal state of all things ever since Lucy stood up on two feet.
Israel and the Jews however a perpetual, challenging enigma like a tennis ball: no matter how hardly you try to hit, it always bounces back and this is beyond the comprehension of many, – even on this forum. A nursing black woman or a decapitated African provoke no challenging thought for the true mystery lies with the pesky Jews:
how come they are still around us?
It’s no wonder Israel and Jew bashing became an industry in which every basher has his/her own theory as to which is the best way to crack the Jewish secret open and purge the world from their polluting presence. If you have enough stamina and saliva just read some of the posters right here, you will be amazed how much sh***t they try to dredge up from hell to support their Jew hatred.
Jan 20, 2009 - 1:58 pm 40. Alex:Israel was created by strong arm actions of the Truman administration, if the UN didnt go along, funding would end.
The Congo is one of the worlds resources for high tech materials including tantalum, cobalt, coltan and manganese. The Belgian Government and US interests made sure that when a leader emerged that could bring independant self rule and self determination to the Nation ( Patrice Lamumba), the leader was assasinated by those same foreign interests, factories must have low cost supply.
If Israel had large deposits of minerals, or petroleum, or any other resource that corporations require for their survival, then Israel would suffer the same fate as the Congo.
Jan 21, 2009 - 12:09 am 41. DAVE:#34 Mike:The Palestinians in Gaza are like the blacks in america who live in Public Housing. They will never change their actions because they don’t have to – someone will always be there to take care of there every need.
And also to kill them at will.
Jan 21, 2009 - 1:25 am 42. JFM:DAVE
You are not only lying: if IUsrael had wanted to kill them at will or, simply hold to a strict interpretation of Geneva: “avoid bombing civilian zones where no enemies are stationed but go for enemy and if civilians die because it has intermingled with them it is enenemy’s fault not ours so shhot prisoners for the war crime ofg endangering civilians” (yes taht is what Geneva says, that makes war crime not pay) there would be a hundred thousand dead by now.
You are also avoiding to ask my question. How many times have you demonstrated in front of the Soudanese embassy? How much time have you spent for them? And given that, unlike Palestinians Black Sudanese are being killed at will and that unlike Palestinians they have never tried to bomb maternities tell me why you don’t give a rat ass for them and care so much for people repugnant enough to try a suicide bombing on maternity.
Jan 21, 2009 - 5:24 am 43. Roy M:Why give a rats ass? Because if you are going to judge a whole people such as “the Palestinians” rather than indviduals then you must judge them on the basis of the actions of the best of them not the worst.
Jan 21, 2009 - 3:54 pm 44. paul_unalaska:Roy M, ‘the best of them’ went out & voted, nearly 2 to 1 for a Hamas-led Government..
Jan 22, 2009 - 12:35 am 45. JFM:Mr Roy M
Nice how you pusrposefully misunderstood my sentnce in order: the people Mr Deave doesn’t give arat ass are Darfuris.
And now I remind you the best of them (Fialstinians) voted nearly two to one for a government who advocates genocide in addition to handle candy when a child is killed in cold blood and try to boimb maternities. Also, do I need to remind you that in Darfur you don’t need to look for the very best of them, not even the average one to find peoplewho dodn’t do the repugnant things the Filastinains do? Then why are you caring about nthem instead of the Darfuris?
Jan 22, 2009 - 8:04 am 46. david:[i]Thomas:
From a very different but valid perspective:[/i]
- Really?
[i]In Africa, women with uncovered breast is absolute normal ubiquitous sight, provoking no criticism nor outrage: one can see naked people on documentary movies in abundance and we just shrug…[/i\]
I lived in Nigeria for 23 yrs and i never saw even ONE such “normal ubiquitous sight”. Please tell me where they are i would love to stare too.
[i]In Africa anything goes: genocide, rape, murder, tribal warfare, you name it – this is the normal state of all things ever since Lucy stood up on two feet.[/i]
Wow what part of Africa did i live in? Must be a different one from that Thomas is describing. Thomas must be living on another planet.
Jan 23, 2009 - 6:58 pm 47. Hurriya:During the past month, comparisons between media coverage of Gaza and the DR Congo has been promoted by pro-Israeli commentators/bloggers, seeking to portray the media as ‘biased’ against Israel. The argument would have some basis, had it not been for Israel’s own blame for the DR Congo war and genocide.
Israeli state apparatus propped up the Mobutu dictatorship for years, laying the foundations for further conflicts in the country. Israeli interests are actively involved in the plundering of DR Congo’s natural resources, in liason with European actors.
http://gaza-peace-n-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/michel-hamas-is-responsible.html
Jan 26, 2009 - 7:09 am 48. Simon:Hi Eli
I’m really happy to have come across this and no doubt I will email soon. I happen to be looking at exactly the same incident for which I’ll be focusing on with my masters thesis.
I’m starting a blog to open a discussion on this topic, and hope to have a central point for discussion as I hunt for related blogs. I hope you, and any viewers with constructive arguments, take a look and once the content increases participate in discussion.
As for the Israel involvement in DR Congo, I can’t help but feel this is an unnecessary argument. Indeed they may have been involved but only at the behest of the larger elite nations such as USA, Britain and France. Therefore it seems like a weak argument, and a pointless one.
All the best,
Mar 16, 2009 - 5:27 amSimon