There's a report of a PLO cabinet minister threatening
an Associated Press cameraman if footage of
Palestinians celebrating was shown:
http://slate.msn.com/Code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/13/2001&idMessage=8286
or just go to today's (Friday's) slate.com and follow
the link.
More interesting than the conspiracy theory is the
different way that U.S. and Palestine public opinion
is treated. I saw on one of the networks in U.S. an
ongoing poll of American public opinion, splitting
down responses by age, gender and race.
The presentation of Palestinian public opinion on the
other hand was based entirely on images of what looked
like (in the footage I saw) a couple of hundred people
celebrating and shooting guns. No attempt made to
talk to people who weren't on the streets, or to get
any sense of how many Palestinians weren't celebrating
(sample bias or what?).
So even if the pictures weren't faked, the story is
questionable.
--- James DeFilippis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote: > I thought the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq was
in
> 1990...
>
> The US began bombing in January 1991, about 5-6
> months after the
> invasion.
>
> I think we need to be very, very careful about how
> we deal with the
> events of Tuesday. The right in the global north
> has been given perhaps
> the biggest gift it possibly could. We don't need
> to make things any
> worse than they already are.
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