Did you know that 7,000 Sudanese civilians were forced to leave a UN compound by “Red Cross workers” and taken to an unspecified destination in southern Sudan?
An internal U.N. report obtained by The Associated Press said Sudanese intelligence agents posed as Red Crescent workers and ordered the civilians to leave the U.N. camp June 20.
Nobody knows where they are, what condition they are in, or what happened to them.
But what is the world media focusing on?
The Gaza flotilla. Because surely, that’s more important. There are fewer than 300 people this time around, and twelve percent of the ships’ passengers are journalists. That’s right, one out of every eight passengers is a journalist.
Obviously, the situation in Gaza is far more dire than the situation in Sudan. Seven thousand missing civilians? What is that, compared to the “open-air prison” that Gaza has become?
And only the UN, it seems, has even bothered to begin to look into what happened to the missing Sudanese. When the mass graves are uncovered, people will shake their heads and mutter about what a shame it is. And then they will discuss the awful situation in Gaza at their next dinner party—particularly the Alice Walkers of the world, who know in their hearts that it is Israel that is the greatest human rights violator in the world. The Sudan? Well, yes, it’s a shame, but—isn’t it awful what they do to those poor Palestinians?