The AP reports that a truce has been signed, “raising hopes the bloody seven-year conflict could draw to a close.”
They then go on to expand on the truce, the people involved, the leaders, international promises of $1 billion to help rebuild. And finally, in the ninth paragraph, solidly in the middle of the article, the AP happens to mention the casualty count of the seven-year war:
The U.N. estimates that some 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have been displaced since ethnic African tribesman in the vast arid western Darfur region took up arms against the Arab-dominated central government complaining of discrimination, lack of political representation and neglect.
The Goldstone Report is based on the deaths of 1,300 Palestinians.
Amazing, isn’t it, the lack of world outrage over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Darfur, and yet, the entire world rose up to condemn Israel’s Gaza offensive. Which killed—let me reiterate—about 1,300 Palestinians, and no, contrary to the AP boilerplate claims, most of them weren’t civilians. Most of them were terrorists. But even if they were—we’re still several orders of magnitude under the Darfur casualty count.
Still waiting for the UN Commission to head into Darfur and write a scathing report about civilian deaths. (No, I’m not really waiting. I know better.)
The hypocrisy could not be more profound. 300,000 dead in Darfur and over 5 MILLION dead in the last ten years in Congo.
It’s obvious that these so-called “human rights activists” are entirely full of shit. They only seem to care when they have an opportunity to bash the hell out of Israel.
Otherwise, nothing but crickets.
Your analysis is perfect on this one, no mention of the Darfur human disaster in the rest of the press, no liberal groups screaming for “justice,†and the rest of the UN silent when Israel is not involved.
Hundreds of thousands dead, Meryl? In the Congo, that’s a couple of months. Darfur can prompt some outrage, some sympathy. No one gives a flying…no one gives a damn. The num ber of Palestinians killed by Israel is endlessly trotted out-curiously enough, the Palestinian fatalities are heavily weighted towards men whereas Israel’s tend to be fifty-fifty, indicating that Israel in fact is not wantonly shooting down civilians. Still, a misaimed Hellfire or artillery shell draws the world’s condemnation.
Millions, literally millions, in the Congo. Who cares. Apparently when Jews do it…nah, that would be cynical.