The Gaza War and the End of the Myth!!
Myth is a symbolic narrative originating in oral cultures passed on by word of mouth and kept in our memories. They are generated collectively and decimated in our cultures not by one event or an individual. They are national traits that a group of people or nation believe, mostly exaggerated and self-grandiose to keep national coherence and set them apart from the rest—One of the myths that I grew up with back in the days in Egypt is that “Egypt is the mother of the world,” we thought Egypt is in the center of the world. I came to America 40 years ago to find out another myth, America is “The father of the world.” Myths are hard to create and hard to get rid of, even if reality says otherwise.
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WHO WOULD SPEAK FOR THE PALESTINIANS?
On October 10, 1990 “Nayirah,” a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, stood before Congressional Human Rights Caucus and tearfully asserted that she had watched 15 infants being taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who “left the babies on the cold floor to die.” The chairmen of the Congressional group, Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that Nayirah’s identity would be kept secret to protect her family from reprisals in occupied Kuwait.
THE ZIONIST DEMOCRACY AND THE SHARED VALUES THING!!
Someone once said that hypocrisy is now widespread; it is not interesting anymore! In the last few weeks, we have seen Western media hypocrisy at its best spin covering the political crisis in Israel; one even warned of fear of civil war; all agreed that Israel, the only democracy in the middle east, is in trouble. The Israeli Knesset later passed the vote limiting the Supreme Court’s authority over the government. According to Thomas Friedman, a perineal Zionist Times columnist who never shies from showing his love for Israel, in his open letter op. to President Biden: ”
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