They’re not even trying to hide it anymore: First Iran’s Supreme Leader admits publicly that Iran has been funding Hezbollah and Hamas for years. Now Chipmunk Cheeks himself is bragging that he’s in the Iranians’ pocket, and has been there since 1982. What’s significant about that? That was the Lebanon war. What happened a year after that? Hezbollah bombed the U.S. military barracks in Beirut and murdered 299 American and French servicemen in their sleep. And yet–I will bet you a hundred dollars that the AP will still say in future articles that Israel “accuses” Iran of supplying Hamas and Hezbollah with weapons.
Where is the Syrian Goldstone Commission? The massacres go on every day, and yet, there is no world outcry of the sort we saw during the Gaza war in 2006. Syria has been using artillery on defenseless civilians every day, killing thousands, and now there’s word that chemical weapons are up next. Two words for the human rights crowd: White Phosphorous. No, three words: You’re all hypocrites. Just for kicks and giggles, I searched news releases by country at HRW’s site. Fourteen for Syria between 1997 and yesterday. For Israel: 33 during that same time period. Jeffrey Goldberg points out that Syria has now killed more of its own citizens civilians than Israel did during both Palestinian intifadas. (That’s why I keep reading–and liking–Goldberg, even though many think he’s too soft on the Palestinians and too hard on Israel. He’s nothing like the others on the left. He keeps reminding the world that Iran really does mean to destroy Israel, and it’s not just a game of words.
To get back to my original point: Of course there will be no Goldstone Commission for Syria, in spite of Bradley Burston’s hope for one. Oh, you’ve got Navi Pillay talking about war crimes trials for Syrians who ordered the barrages on civilians, but that’s about it. The UN is a toothless, anti-Israel organization that lives off taxpayer dollars and exists to extend its own [anti-Israel] agenda. Iran and Hezbollah are helping Syria murder its own citizens.
Jackson Diehl said it, and a chorus is beginning to emerge: The fall of Syria could bring the Iranian regime down with it.
Actually, he said that Syria is on track to kill more people within 10 months than the number of people who died on either side in both intifadas. He didn’t break down the deaths in the intifadas by which side did the killing or who was being killed. Also, many or most of the Palestinians killed during the intifadas were not Israeli citizens.
Oops, you’re right about the Palestinians not being Israeli citizens. I probably should have said civilians, which I will go and change now.
” Jeffrey Goldberg points out that Syria has now killed more of its own citizens civilians than Israel did during both Palestinian intifadas. ”
Wow, Goldberg is really on the case, just like the rest of the MSM. Syria surpassed this by miles before the intifadas even occurred at Hama almost 30 years ago. The “shocked, shocked” reactions of the MSM and the BO administration at Syria’s murderous savagery – after years of kissing up to the Assads while demonizing Israel 24×7 – make Captain Renault look like Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, I know Goldberg is better than most but that just points up how bad the rest of the MSM is. The worst? Maybe Vogue who gave a fawning, glowing profile of Assad’s wife just before the latest slaughter began. Next up: the glamorous but misunderstood Eva Braun.
I suspect the liberal MSM doesn’t really pay attention to “brown people” being killed by other “brown people”. There was a huge war in the Congo in the 1990s, which still sputters on. Millions of people were killed, but there was virtually no mention of it in the Western media. You have to go to StrategyPage.com to find out about such things, or foreign media (sometimes). Only if America, Israel, or other Westerners can be blamed is the interest of the MSM captured.