Jan. 25th, 2008 11:19 pm
Truthspeak at the Guardian
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Especially notable entries:
29 September 2000
Violent rioting breaks out in Jerusalem after Ariel Sharon, the hawkish leader of the opposition, visits the most holy Muslim shrine in the city. Surrounded by hundreds of riot police and accompanied by a handful of Likud party colleagues, he spends 45 minutes on the Haram al-Sharif compound, home of the al-Aqsa mosque. By the time he leaves East Jerusalem is in uproar, and hundreds are injured. It is the start of the al-Aqsa intifada (uprising).
Nowhere is it mentioned that the mosque is located on the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. The Temple Mount is now called Haram al-Sharif. Can't wait for London to be called Londonistan (and probably would not have to wait that long either).
12 October 2000
Two Israeli soldiers lose their way near the Palestinian town of Ramallah, and are taken to the local police station. A baying mob surrounds and then invades the building. The helpless soldiers are stabbed to death. Israeli public opinion is enraged by televised pictures of the gloating murderers, holding up their bloodstained hands. There are massive retaliatory strikes with artillery and helicopter gunships.
The reservists were not "stabbed to death" but torn apart limb by limb. And the "massive retaliatory strikes with artillery and helicopter gunships" were aimed at empty buildings. But the "newspaper of record" doesn't bother with details. Truthspeak rules!
I miss Orwell more and more. Daily.
Especially notable entries:
29 September 2000
Violent rioting breaks out in Jerusalem after Ariel Sharon, the hawkish leader of the opposition, visits the most holy Muslim shrine in the city. Surrounded by hundreds of riot police and accompanied by a handful of Likud party colleagues, he spends 45 minutes on the Haram al-Sharif compound, home of the al-Aqsa mosque. By the time he leaves East Jerusalem is in uproar, and hundreds are injured. It is the start of the al-Aqsa intifada (uprising).
Nowhere is it mentioned that the mosque is located on the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. The Temple Mount is now called Haram al-Sharif. Can't wait for London to be called Londonistan (and probably would not have to wait that long either).
12 October 2000
Two Israeli soldiers lose their way near the Palestinian town of Ramallah, and are taken to the local police station. A baying mob surrounds and then invades the building. The helpless soldiers are stabbed to death. Israeli public opinion is enraged by televised pictures of the gloating murderers, holding up their bloodstained hands. There are massive retaliatory strikes with artillery and helicopter gunships.
The reservists were not "stabbed to death" but torn apart limb by limb. And the "massive retaliatory strikes with artillery and helicopter gunships" were aimed at empty buildings. But the "newspaper of record" doesn't bother with details. Truthspeak rules!
I miss Orwell more and more. Daily.
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