Remember when people wanted to lynch the late Edward Said, English professor at Columbia, for throwing a symbolic stone toward Israeli forces from Lebanon in 2000?
Well today my old friend and mentor Lucianne Goldberg: published this image of an Iranian protester with the macha caption, "The Hand that Cradles the Rock."
Some day, some way, Palestinian resistance–lately involving a legitimate election, denied by the world–will be understood here.
There is a breath taking double standard. When Israel takes action to defend itself and its own interests the world comes to life with mass marches, protests, and emergency sessions at the UN. When Iranians squirming under the yoke of the Mullahs cry for mercy and beg for help we all seem to be interested in watching paint dry. If Jews have to kill to survive it is an outrage, when long oppressed Iranians are being murdered in their own homes the left and the Arab street suddenly loses its voice. What a hideous double standard.
well I don't understand what the world has to do with it. I don't understand why they tried so hard to get all this news out to U.S. like do they want the U.S. to come in and kick some ass? Would these people like that? Take down the regime perhaps? Before this I was admiring the Iranian struggle for independence and no bullshit talk with "Israel" and the rest. Were we Americans interested for China to know that our 2004 election was rigged? Did we complain to them? I mean really I don't get what these Iranians want, what they are asking for from the world. They seem like traitors to me not because they are mad about whatever in their own country but because they make it so public as if they want someone else to step in. That's bullshit to me.
The people in Burma were also interested to get the images out into the world. Remember? If you are not interested or don't care, you can move on to a topic you find more interesting. I think that they got their story out was important, it will be much harder for the ideologues now to convince the US and/or the people of the world that Iran is a uniform mass of people thinking like Ahmadinejad that has to be nuked into surrender. One of their main target audiences outside Iran are Iranians living abroad.
“The Hand that Cradles the Rock": If that were the exact same picture with the exact same caption, only of a Palestinian woman, the immediately recognized inference in the media would have been ridicule instead of veneration, along the lines of “See, even the matronly Palestinians are rock-throwing terrorists.” It’s amazing how effective the Zionist mass media can be at perception shaping and general thought management. It just goes to show how much of what the average American thinks they know in a lot of areas is actually more about what the Zionists want them to know (or not know) than any kind of objective reality.
Breathtaking that she forgot to put her designer bag down and mess up her coiffure before trying to pose for a picture that supposedly represents the people of Iran. Leandor, Who ever believed that Iran was a mass of people thinking like Ahmadinejad? What country is made up of a population that thinks just like its leaders? Additionally, I don't think their target audience is made up of Iranians living abroad – most of them are already in the opposition camp. These people are posing for the western media, and it will be a sad day if the Americans ever decide to use force to remove the regime in Iran. Let the Iranian people work it out… without the CIA or the National Endowment for Democracy. PM
LeaNder, I'm sorry for spelling your name wrong in the above post. I must be reading too many Richard Witty posts, and eek!, the misspelling of names seems to be contagious. PM
The Iranians are not in any humanitarian disaster inflicted by nature so there is no comparison. I had no problem with Obama offering Gaza aid money after the Israeli attack which was a humanitarian disaster caused by the U.S. so we owed it anyway. Same thing with Lebanon. The Iranians (a voluntary portion) are involved in their own internal affair that has nothing to do with us. It isn't a humanitarian disaster because the Iranian women have to wear scarves on the street and the homosexuals can't have public parades. I wouldn't like the scarf part either but there are worse things in the world. As far as ideologues, you want him gone for this: “The Zionists are crooks. A small handful of Zionists, with a very intricate organization, have taken over the power centers of the world. According to our estimates, the main cadre of the Zionists consists of 2,000 individuals at most, and they have another 8,000 activists.” Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
RE:Breathtaking that she forgot to put her designer bag down and mess up her coiffure before trying to pose for a picture that supposedly represents the people of Iran. Seriously ROTFL
That's a briefcase, Paul. SInce 60% of all university students are women, probably that.
It is hypocrisy to condemn Palestinian rock-throwing but not Iranian. Better that all acknowledge that rock-throwing is NOT non-violent civil disobedience.
Let them throw rocks. That allows the police force to shot them.
It's time to stop throwing rocks at israeli nazi scum and to start throwing grenades at them.
what came first? the rock or the indiscriminate killing of civilians, land theft, institutionalized racism, rape, murder, propaganda and outright lies?
I agree. Imagine if the US media had also shown as much in photos of Gaza.
The rock, then the Palestinians started indiscriminate killing of civilians, land theft, institutionalized racism, rape, murder, propaganda and outright lies.
And that is a general law? It doesn't change if a state with all its power and the latest weaponry crushes a peaceful protest? You have to ultimately wait for your possible dead. No person has the right to defend himself?
Look, I am not impressed by academic titles if they aren't connected with an enlightened mind. I am aware that Ahmadinejad's rhetoric aims at the discontented in the West too. In fact I noticed in the debate that some seem to feel he fights their fight for them. Silly. My problem is why should I be attracted to statements that could have been written by the Mossad or other agencies at perception management? The discontented ultimately won't be the ones that decide about war or peace. There was much to criticize and point out about Durban II as Naomi Klein has excellently shown in her critique. The way he dressed it was grist on the mills of the warmongers, is that so hard to see?
So who fights for us, Leander? Better yet – show me a sentence that demonstrates that "some seem to feel he fights their fight for them". What silly is that you actually believe that…
The difficulty with rock-throwing is that it serves two divergent purposes. One is to communicate, solely as theater (in the sense that its significance is to communicate and to register with oneself that one is communicating). "I'm throwing this rock in your direction". In that sense its NOT an intention to harm, but to communicate. Then there is the perception (real and rational), that the rock-throwing was not meant to communicate, but to actually harm, to actually chase away. In Hebron in 1929, they threw rocks. Not just a few, but hundreds, thousands, threw rocks at the long-resident Jews, to chase them away. The punishment for some crimes (still) in shariah is to stone the perpetrators to death. Not a communication, but a harming.
The rock is nothing but the weapon of the poor. It's doesn't communicate anything but, look I am not going to surrender. I don't fear your weapons, thanks and armored vehicles, but yes, since I have neither of that I have to take something else.
And, in that is perceived as an actual military threat, then responded to military, it accomplishes less than nothing.
Arabs threw rocks in Hebron in 1929? The Arabs (back then Palestineans meant Jews; Arabs never identified as Pals) in Hebron used HATCHETS to attack Jews. It was their favorite weapon. I have seen many photos of the aftermath of the 1929 Arab riots and ethnic cleansing of Hebron. They hacked off fingers and arms for many young Jews. Oh yeah, those Jews without their arms were not counted among the dead… they lived minus limbs for a while, yet. As for why they did this, it is just Arab custom. Like Honor Killing. This is hard for deconstructionist idiot Leftists to understand but Arabs are like that.
Hatchets are a good weapon for attacking Jewish gangsters who have no right to live on stolen land. To hell with them. They should be hacked apart.
I'd prefer anytime to be shot from being humiliated till the end of my life, in a situation like that.
But you have been humiliated over and over again.
I am aware of the power of shame in my own story, are you? But I think I can be hardly pretend to have experienced it on the level of the Palestinians must have. Shame is a powerful divisive affect. http://books.google.de/books?id=CIhEhpLR6qEC&...
(back then Palestineans meant Jews; Arabs never identified as Pals) nonsense. Palestine it was the standard term for the region since Roman times. You are basically suggesting that the people that lived there over centuries were ignorant of the history of the region.
That lady seems pretty nonchalant for someone who is carrying a load of stones into a riot. To this day, I probably take a game of Marco Polo more seriously than she appears to take her own part in a supposedly dangerous revolt. She doesn't exactly look like Randy Johnson, so she probably flew under the radar.