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Michael Tee

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Don't See Any Real Diplomatic Fallout
« on: June 04, 2010, 07:17:00 PM »
Looks like the Israelis dodged another bullet.  No serious UN consequences and an Israeli Foreign Office official publicly thanking Obama for "watering down" the condemnatory Security Council resolution.  Any "investigation" to be by Israel of Israel.  No break in diplomatic relations with any state, and even from Turkey, just a recall of the Turkish Ambassador.  It doesn't even look like the U.S. and Israel are  going to be set back in their ongoing efforts to sanction Iran - - no key player has come forward to claim that the murder of the nine or ten aid workers was a game-changer.  Not even Turkey itself.

Looks to me like the Arab governments are lip-synching nasty words to satisfy the masses while counting the days till this all fades into the background and they can get back to business as usual.  As far as the Palestinians are concerned, it's "God helps them that help themselves."

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Re: Don't See Any Real Diplomatic Fallout
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2010, 09:49:20 PM »





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Re: Don't See Any Real Diplomatic Fallout
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2010, 10:55:34 PM »
The cartoon is an interesting study in reverse reality.  Looking at it, one would think that the central event on board was the brutal beating of Israelis by baton-wielding Muslim thugs.  In fact, the cartoon emphasizes an extremely minor violent event and completely ignores the actual central event - - the murder of nine or ten humanitarian aid workers shot down by Israeli military personnel and the wounding of dozens of others.  A genuine massacre totally ignored, and a minor beating substituted in its place.

It's a fascinating focus - - minor violence ranking maybe two or three on a scale of ten is portrayed to the total exclusion of major violence on a scale of ten out of ten.

Very similar to the way the American and Canadian MSM played this - - 2 to 3% of the coverage on the actual shooting and killing, 98% on the reaction of Israeli and American spokesmen.

As long as special interests control the U.S. and Canadian media, this is the distorted view of reality that Americans are going to see, and this is the world that their government will live in and respond to.  It's an impressive accomplishment for the special interests, but is it really sustainable?

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Re: Don't See Any Real Diplomatic Fallout
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2010, 11:20:44 PM »
Actually, that'd be a reverse of your alternate reality.  with the emphais placed on your gross invalid claim of murdering "humanitarian aide workers".  Nice to know though, what the new PC term is for Radical Islamic advocates
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