Posted on 07/12/2005 3:14:13 PM PDT by pythagorean
Recently, "Hannity & Colmes", of the usually less-easily-fooled-than-other-networks Fox News Channel, treated us masses to a "genocide" video that's been handed over to the Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Pouring even more fuel onto the carefully cultivated and long accepted caricature of the evil Serb, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes were of one mind when Hannity called the actions of the Bosnian Serb soldiers in the video "pure evil" and "evil incarnate."
Without being wrong about evil on display in the video, the network had been had. The circulation of, and the outrage surrounding, this tape — especially high right now in guilt-ridden Serbia itself — is a sign that things have gone from bad to worse in the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic. Especially in anticipation of today's 10-year commemoration of the Srebrenica massacre, the Hague desperately required a new wave of shocking images to win in the court of public emotion the case that's being lost in the court of foregone conclusion.
There's a reason for the conspicuous three-year near silence by all major media on this oh-so-momentous Second Nuremberg, as it was billed — a silence broken only one or two days a year, when they're finally able to offer up a damning piece of evidence that will perpetuate the version of events we've been sold from the beginning.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
I get the point of the article but it blames the the failure to label the atrocities in the Sudan by Moslems as genocide because "the exterminators there aren't white Christian Serbs."
While that is a fair point that world is quicker to blame white Christians it is also important to look at who the victims are. Milosivich killed Europeans and that gets more attention in Europe where the trial is being held The victims in Sudan are black and half a world away and that gets less attention.
I'm sure the author knows this but it feels like she glosses over it to make her point.
Bump!
You are probably right about the moslum perspective... I was looking at it from why the Europeans are calling Milosovitch's actions genocide but not the killings in Sudan - because Europeans tend to have Euro-centric viewpoint.
BTTT
I could care less if the Serbs killed all the muslims.
Serbs have always been our allies:
In WW2
and during the cold war, I guarantee you Tito would have stabbed the Soviets in the back if WW 3 broke out
No doubt about it, Julia Gorin has done an excellent job refuting the failed policies of the Clintonistas and the islamofascist apologists.
The truth will out!
Tito was notorious for stabbing Serbs in the back.
"The Serbs knew full well what havoc moslems of any age are capable of". You mean Serbs like Arkan?
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