Save Darfur organization provides little relief to refugees

by on June 18, 2009 16

James North writes
Alex de Waal has decades of experience in Sudan and Darfur, and his point of view is valuable, as is this blog: "Making Sense of Darfur."  His latest post is particularly useful:
* He endorses the measured, diplomatic approach of the Obama administration, and its special envoy, Scott Gration.
* He reminds us that the Save Darfur organization provides almost no direct relief to the refugees in Darfur.

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  1. EvaSmagacz says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    The campaign to present Darfur as a crises arisen due to bloodthirsty Arab militia attacking primitive but "wholesome" natives has been marketed for two principal reasons. A. If the reason for Arab militia action is withheld from the readership of MSM, then implication is that all Arabs are bloody, irredeemable savages who like nothing better than kill children and rape women. B. If crisis in Darfur can be build up to be more than Palestinian question, than easy tactic can be used to deflect the criticism from Apartheid in Occupied Territories

  2. Richard WittyI says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Darfur is a tragedy, that some are attempting to deal with in the best and most charitable way that they are aware. Do demean them for doing so is dumb.

  3. syvanen says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Though Darfur is becoming a minor issue, it is still important to expose the basic corruption of the Save Darfur Coalition. These people have been trying to provoke the US and it's western allies into militarily backing its favorite faction in the very complex Sudanese civil war. As with the neocons push for war in Iraq, the welfare of the local people are not on their agenda, they have larger geopolitical goals in mind. Ironically, it was the strategic defeat of US forces in Iraq that saved the Sudan from a similar fate. The US became bogged in an Iraqi quagmire and does not have the resources to initiate another war.

  4. joh domingo says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Really Philip, you should not be endorsing people you know little about. Keith harmont Snow mentions Alex de waal constantly as as a disinfo agent. He is a member of the CFR's task force on Humanitarian intervention in Africa.____http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/html-247MERC... working for the Pentagon, State Department, or national security apparatus deploy arguments cloaked in righteous assumptions of higher morality about human rights or humanitarian concern. For example, Sudan “experts” like Dr. Eric Reeves and Alex De Waal provide a constant barrage of one-sided propaganda to manufacture consent at home and project American power in Sudan.[43][43] This propaganda is unassailable by Western “news” consumers, because consumers are not otherwise privy to, interested in, or compelled to discover the deeper truths."____http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/html-247MERC... De Waal might be critical of the Save Dafur Organization, but only because they have a completely ridiculous posture. He is a little more subtle.____Keith himself is no lover of the Sudanese regime, but he at least has no questionable entanglements.________

  5. joh domingo says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Don't know if it is only me, but my firefox won't load your page at all, and I have trouble with comments timing out in explorer, then formatting issues when it does eventually publish. It also should hold my details in the comment posting window but doesn't.

  6. tree_ says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Do you have any specific knowledge of the Save Darfur Coalition that would lead you to believe that it is dealing with the tragedy in the "best and most charitable way that they are aware"? If not, then making a banal blanket statement is ill-informed and meaningless.( But not unexpected.) And how is mentioning the truth, i.e. that the Save Darfur Coalition provides next to no relief for those in Darfur, "demeaning"?Must everyone lie about this so as not to be considered "dumb" in your eyes? Or was your last sentence meant to be as empty and meaningless as your first?

  7. Slaney Black says:
    June 19, 2009 at 1:48 am

    Save Darfur = Zionist plot. It's not complicated, people.

  8. Ali Baba says:
    June 19, 2009 at 2:09 am

    Yes, it certainly takes more than 200,000 people murdered and another 2 million rendered homeless in 6 years to deflect attention from the Palestinians. Saddam Husein being responsible for allow 500,000 children to die while he built palaces and bought weapons didn't do it, either.

  9. Strahl says:
    June 19, 2009 at 4:50 am

    Witty don't you know Phil? How can he stand you when you're so obtuse.

  10. Citizen says:
    June 19, 2009 at 11:27 am

    @ Slaney Black This appears to be essentially true, as developed in detail here: http://a2vigil.org/sudan/darfurfacts.pd BTW, the region is larger than Egypt, and is rich in undeveloped natural resources; China gets the local oil, all the many tribes involved are both black and muslim; a root cause of the conflict beyond geo-strategic interference instigated originally by American AIPAC types, is there's not enough water to go around.

  13. Citizen says:
    June 19, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Origin of the Save Darfur movement, motives to pick this region over other African problem areas, the complexity of the problem beyond the black what-white hat Save Darfur narrative: http://pulsemedia.org/2009/06/08/the-darfur-decep...

  14. ThorsProvoni says:
    June 19, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Obviously we should be addressing the underlying question of Jewish racism, manipulation, and hypocrisy: Hate-Filled Curriculum of Radical Yeshivas.

  15. Kathleen says:
    June 19, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    What is really getting under my skin is how much time the MSM has been covering the protest in Iran. Hell for the tens of thousands of Americans who protested in D.C. and across the nation during the 2000 Presidential selection we barely had a few minutes of MSM coverage. During the anti invasion marches during the fall of the 2002 and the winter of 2003 the MSM barely covered those protest (I was at six of them) Accumulatively millions protested. The MSM barely covered U.S. citizens protest. Any coverage that the millions of middle Americans made up of teachers, plumbers, truck drivers, nurses, WWII Korean, Vietnam, Desert Strom Vets who protested received was often a clip of the 20 people with hoods over their heads at those marches made it onto the MSM. The millons of middle Americans did not….Talk about media control. Guess you have to live in Iran to have a protest covered by our MSM….Pathetic

  16. Kathleen says:
    June 19, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    As Flynnt Leverett has written about Iran's election "get over it" Where were Rep Pence, Senator Chambliss, Pat Buchanan, George Will when U.S. protest were going on? They sure were not calling for a recount in 2000. They sure were not standing up and celebrating U.S. protestors then. In fact they either demonized U.S. protestors or ignored them What a bunch of pathetic hypocrites

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