Despite all the rhetoric that came from the right about freeing the iraqi people and how awful Hussein was for his treatment of his citizens, there seems to be little in the way of calls from right to do anything about this.
Here is a blurb posted by noted antisemite Jeffrey Blankfort, jablankfort at earthlink.net On another antisemitic newsletter I get (Peter Myers of Australia is the white supremist behind the newsletter)
Save Darfur: Zionist Conspiracy? Exploiting African Genocide for Propaganda
From Jeffrey Blankfort jablankfort@earthlink.net Date 03/10/2006 18:37
http://nyc.indymedia.org/es/2006/10/76786.html
October 02, 2006 04:43PM EDT
Save Darfur: Zionist Conspiracy?
Exploiting African Genocide for Propaganda
Por El Ned Goldstein, WW4 REPORT
The Sudanese government has, unsurprisingly, stressed the participation of Zionist and Jewish groups in the Save Darfur movement—and flatly accused Israel of being behind the insurgency in Darfur.
The death toll in the Darfur region of western Sudan has reached between 200,000 and 400,000 as of Oct. 1, with 2.5 million displaced. The UN warns that the death toll could escalate precipitously if the situation is allowed to deteriorate. The dictatorial — and genocidal —Khartoum regime led by Omar al-Bashir, is possibly the world's most brutal and murderous.
The conflict in Darfur is rooted in the long oppression of marginalized groups seeking political and economic equality. Ethnic identification has become increasingly polarized in Darfur, with the indigenous Darfurians who support the rebels generally characterized as Black Africans, and the Sudanese army and its proxy militias described as Arab.
While the debate over what to do about Darfur continues, the Sudanese government and critics of the US-based Save Darfur coalition have continued to accuse the movement (or, at least, elements of it) of having ulterior motives: namely, to benefit Israel—both by diverting attention from Israeli war crimes to those of the Khartoum regime and its supporters in the Arab world, and, more ambitiously to actually destabilize Sudan's Islamist government.
Khartoum and Israel: Mutual Exploitation?
The Sudanese government has, unsurprisingly, stressed the participation of Zionist and Jewish groups in the Save Darfur movement—and flatly accused Israel of being behind the insurgency in Darfur.
As early as Dec. 21, 2004, Republic of Sudan Radio reported that Sudanese Interior Minister Ahmad Harun, flanked by two other government ministers, "accused the Zionist entity of supplying the rebels with weapons in the framework of Israel's plan that targets Arab nations."
In May 2005, the Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samir al-Shaybani told a Syrian interviewer: "We can even say that these powers want to dismember Sudan and replace this government with another one that serves their strategic interests, represented in obliterating Sudan's Arab identity. Top among these powers is the Zionist lobby, which considered the Darfur issue primarily a Jewish issue requiring solidarity between the Jews and some African tribes, which claim to be in conflict with Arab tribes. The Darfur issue has thus been depicted within the framework of mass annihilation. The Zionist groups and US Administration played on this theory and dedicated huge resources and large media and diplomatic campaigns to promote this erroneous diagnosis of the conflict."
The current Government in Sudan housed bin Laden. That is a better late than never reason, but one reason. Fighting the last traces of slavery in the world has noble reasons in its own right and coudl resonate to a new Africa policy for the US, plus stabilizing sub-Saharan Africa and promoting self-sufficiency there can lead to nations like Botswana being the norm in Africa than the exception.
The historian side of me also sees an appeal to being stationed first in Mesopatamia and now in the Kush.
The Janjaweed is the local chapter of Islamofascists International. While sending more "Peacekeepers" is a nice idea, it is better to arm and train the local moderate muslims and animists so they can fight and, hopefully, kill the Janjaweed. Perhaps NATO can supply air power toward that effort. The article cited and other news on Darfur along with much of the (correct) liberal concern on the issue suffers from the familiar inability to "name the enemy". It's those "Arab Militias".
If America is not fighting for human rights and liberal democracy, then more often than not nobody is.
It is too bad America can't be a force for good in the world everywhere at once. The left uses this factual statement to illogically argue we should be nowhere.
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Despite all the rhetoric that came from the right about freeing the iraqi people and how awful Hussein was for his treatment of his citizens, there seems to be little in the way of calls from right to do anything about this.
Sudan is a lose-lose proposition. There is nothing to be done but post a 200,000 man force to separate the sides.
The perfect escape for Bush was katrina. No one would have been upset had Bush redeployed in New Orleans.
God doesn't give second chances often.
By the way, how do you post photos on a blog?
Here is a blurb posted by noted antisemite Jeffrey Blankfort, jablankfort at earthlink.net
On another antisemitic newsletter I get (Peter Myers of Australia is the white supremist behind the newsletter)
Save Darfur: Zionist Conspiracy? Exploiting African Genocide for
Propaganda
From Jeffrey Blankfort jablankfort@earthlink.net Date 03/10/2006
18:37
http://nyc.indymedia.org/es/2006/10/76786.html
October 02, 2006 04:43PM EDT
Save Darfur: Zionist Conspiracy?
Exploiting African Genocide for Propaganda
Por El Ned Goldstein, WW4 REPORT
The Sudanese government has, unsurprisingly, stressed the participation
of Zionist and Jewish groups in the Save Darfur movement—and flatly
accused Israel of being behind the insurgency in Darfur.
And the story:
Exploiting African Genocide for Propaganda
by Ned Goldstein, WW4 REPORT
The death toll in the Darfur region of western Sudan has reached
between
200,000 and 400,000 as of Oct. 1, with 2.5 million displaced. The UN
warns that the death toll could escalate precipitously if the situation
is allowed to deteriorate. The dictatorial — and genocidal —Khartoum
regime led by Omar al-Bashir, is possibly the world's most brutal and
murderous.
The conflict in Darfur is rooted in the long oppression of marginalized
groups seeking political and economic equality. Ethnic identification
has become increasingly polarized in Darfur, with the indigenous
Darfurians who support the rebels generally characterized as Black
Africans, and the Sudanese army and its proxy militias described as
Arab.
While the debate over what to do about Darfur continues, the Sudanese
government and critics of the US-based Save Darfur coalition have
continued to accuse the movement (or, at least, elements of it) of
having ulterior motives: namely, to benefit Israel—both by diverting
attention from Israeli war crimes to those of the Khartoum regime and
its supporters in the Arab world, and, more ambitiously to actually
destabilize Sudan's Islamist government.
Khartoum and Israel: Mutual Exploitation?
The Sudanese government has, unsurprisingly, stressed the participation
of Zionist and Jewish groups in the Save Darfur movement—and flatly
accused Israel of being behind the insurgency in Darfur.
As early as Dec. 21, 2004, Republic of Sudan Radio reported that
Sudanese Interior Minister Ahmad Harun, flanked by two other government
ministers, "accused the Zionist entity of supplying the rebels with
weapons in the framework of Israel's plan that targets Arab nations."
In May 2005, the Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samir
al-Shaybani told a Syrian interviewer: "We can even say that these
powers want to dismember Sudan and replace this government with another
one that serves their strategic interests, represented in obliterating
Sudan's Arab identity. Top among these powers is the Zionist lobby,
which considered the Darfur issue primarily a Jewish issue requiring
solidarity between the Jews and some African tribes, which claim to be
in conflict with Arab tribes. The Darfur issue has thus been depicted
within the framework of mass annihilation. The Zionist groups and US
Administration played on this theory and dedicated huge resources and
large media and diplomatic campaigns to promote this erroneous
diagnosis
of the conflict."
The current Government in Sudan housed bin Laden. That is a better late than never reason, but one reason. Fighting the last traces of slavery in the world has noble reasons in its own right and coudl resonate to a new Africa policy for the US, plus stabilizing sub-Saharan Africa and promoting self-sufficiency there can lead to nations like Botswana being the norm in Africa than the exception.
The historian side of me also sees an appeal to being stationed first in Mesopatamia and now in the Kush.
I think it will be a new Somalia. This will be twice as bad as iraq because there are twice as many cultures and 4 times the subtrifuge.
The Janjaweed is the local chapter of Islamofascists International. While sending more "Peacekeepers" is a nice idea, it is better to arm and train the local moderate muslims and animists so they can fight and, hopefully, kill the Janjaweed. Perhaps NATO can supply air power toward that effort. The article cited and other news on Darfur along with much of the (correct) liberal concern on the issue suffers from the familiar inability to "name the enemy". It's those "Arab Militias".
Name the enemy, win the war.
The lesson:
If America is not fighting for human rights and liberal democracy, then more often than not nobody is.
It is too bad America can't be a force for good in the world everywhere at once. The left uses this factual statement to illogically argue we should be nowhere.
You can name them, but it doesn't help. This is an extremely alien culture and landscape.
Throw your hands up and let them kill each other. It the enemy lives, then wipe them out.
The Muslim world doesn't give a rats ass. Either is Europe. They are focused on the f'ups that call themselves Palestinians.
In Darfur, no Jews are involved, so it is hard for the left to focus on who to hate.
But they are trying to tie the non-arabs in the conflict as dupes of the Jews.
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