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Exploiting Human Tragedy: Manipulating Emotions & Obscuring Facts To Justify Brutal Occupation

November 19, 2014 By Adrian Boutureira 2 Comments

I think that the loss of any innocent life from violence is regrettable. The question of innocence in situations where one people is collectively attempting to brutally dominate can always be academically debated, but I have no intention to introduce such arguments here nor to try to explain away this violence or diminish, in any way, the human suffering that it causes. It’s not necessary.

Instead, I want to express my sense of injustice in how our society’s emotions can be manipulated so easily into outrage at the killing of any Israeli at the hands of Palestinians, while consistently ignoring many more such attacks on Palestinians by Israelis. I find this one sided reaction rather disturbing in its bias, hypocrisy and blatant racism. The government and media feed and promote this reaction. They create criminally manipulative propaganda through their presentation of the facts and their context.

Let me put things in perspective to illustrate my point:

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Gaza, genocide, Human Rights, Islamophobia, Israel, Jerusalem, mainstream media, media, occupation, Occupied West Bank, Palestine, Protective Edge, racism, Synagogue Attack, terrorism, West Bank, Zionism

Sweden Recognizes Palestine? Not Quite

October 8, 2014 By Adrian Boutureira Leave a Comment

Sweden is not even saying that it recognizes Palestine as a state under 1967 borders, which would at least return significant geographic continuity to the West Bank.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Stefan Lofven, Sweden, West Bank

American Exceptionism: Alive And Well In The 21st Century

October 2, 2014 By Adrian Boutureira 7 Comments

So, here’s yet another blatant example of the surreal double standard at the heart of the United States’ political psyche entrenched in our government, our mainstream media, and perhaps most disturbingly, among the vast majority of the people in our nation. Recently, after what still remains in the eyes of millions as an illegal coup of […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: American exceptionalism, Bashar Assad, ethnic cleansing, European Union, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, United Nations, War

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