Source AFP.
Anti-Semitism is alive and well and just like last time we refuse to see it when it's right in front of us.
TVNZ's verbal ping-pong machine "Simon and Wendy" missed yesterday's annual celebration of Al-Quds day in Tehran. An industrious militia group used the occasion to launch a book called Holocaust, an event which attracted the Education Minister. The book is a compilation of cartoons and sarcastic comments mocking the WW2 holocaust. No word yet on a reaction from the Danes.
Many snaps of the festive crowd here.
Earlier in the week Iran's Ahmadinejad used the UN platform to report,
Does anyone think the election of Obama will suddenly convince Iran that Israel should not be driven into the sea?
Anti-Semitism is alive and well and just like last time we refuse to see it when it's right in front of us.
TVNZ's verbal ping-pong machine "Simon and Wendy" missed yesterday's annual celebration of Al-Quds day in Tehran. An industrious militia group used the occasion to launch a book called Holocaust, an event which attracted the Education Minister. The book is a compilation of cartoons and sarcastic comments mocking the WW2 holocaust. No word yet on a reaction from the Danes.
Many snaps of the festive crowd here.
Earlier in the week Iran's Ahmadinejad used the UN platform to report,
"the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters."How can this nonsense from Iran be construed as "peaceful" and be ignored?
Does anyone think the election of Obama will suddenly convince Iran that Israel should not be driven into the sea?
Should probably be Danes instead of Dutch or am I missing something ?
ReplyDeleteWe need the Iranian president,Supreme Leader and militias out but I have a general faith in the Iranian people, there's a BBC correspondent's article about talking to ordinary people in Tehran floating around that is illuminating. Remember the Majalis has a guaranteed Jewish seat as well though. It's not enough but its something.
Yes quite right, thanks for pointing that out. It was a Danish newspaper, the Jutland Post, not Dutch as I erroneously wrote, which published the cartoons in 2005.
ReplyDeleteOffensive comments will usually be removed, as is the case in this instance.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Zen deleted the comment without leaving a trail .. that's what he's talking about.
ReplyDeleteAny mocking of the Holocaust will bring the ire of this Pole. Sad, really, as Iran (used be called Persia) sheltered many Poles that managed to make their way out of the Gulags during WW2.
ReplyDeleteThere's just no satisfying some bloggers. One minute they're up in arms over an issue being ignored, but if the opposite occurred, they'd be complaining that "Simon and Wendy" shouldn't be giving Ahmadinejad the publicity he so dearly craves. Can't have it both ways Greg. In this case I think it's better the hot air emanating from Tehran is ignored. Unless of course you are raring to pick a fight and want the matter to escalate into a full blown war like all the other "neo-cons" out there....
ReplyDeleteWhen did Greg have it the other way Sean? I missed that post :-)
ReplyDeleteIn this case I think it's better the hot air emanating from Tehran is ignored.
Unless of course Ahmadinejad is raring to pick a fight and want the matter to escalate like all the other radical Islamists out there?
And I thought it disappointing little was said about Bush not backing Israel on a strike against Iran earlier. Some reports finally surface about this, but why the delays? To head off action now?
Bush not backing Israel on Iranian strike
If you want to attack Iran then be prepared for oil prices to exceed your ability to pay for petrol. Iran, even if I agreed that we ought to intervene which I don't, have us all by the genitals because if we attack them we're further destroy our economies. No one can afford a war right now.
ReplyDeleteHard to ignore Ahmadinejad when he's using the largely US supported UN to rail against the Yanks on US TV, which is the most noble calling of our time, and naturally that's what TVNZ reports. At the same time TVNZ fails to report Al-Quds day and the production of sentimental collectables such as the "Holocaust" cartoon book.
ReplyDeleteThese types of cartoon are widespread but when was the last time the TVNZ news reported on anti-Jewish propaganda?
Ha, instead, to demonstrate professional excellence, we get an "investigative" piece on the collapse of Building 7, another totem for 9/11 conspiracy nuts, which screened on TV1 SUNDAY last night.
I wouldn't want to attack anyone either. I'm pointing to the difference in reportage and reaction between certain infamous cartoons.
Universal, like the US Administration back in May this year, I too would counsel Israel attacking Iran.
ReplyDeleteI'd support them increasing their border security though.
Zen - clearly I was referring to bloggers of Greg's ilk. Wouldn't take me too literally - though maybe I should give Greg a little more time before making such assumptions about him...
ReplyDeleteAs you pointed out, it is Israel raring to pick a fight. No surprises there though.
Greg - on your perceived journalistic imbalance, well they don't bother to report the anti-Jewish propaganda from the "extreme right" such as National Front and those types either. They usually only report what people are interested in hearing - and it ain't the ravings of nutters. And I'm not so sure you can compare these with the Danish cartoons (of which many on the right support the publishing of - I'm not saying you are one of them) as the reporting of these was mainly on the reaction. They weren't particularly reported on when they were first published.