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CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate you
http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article_id=6946

CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate you

I'd like to add some ideas from here, down south.

There's an important point in the power of press, specifically the power of CNN.

All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge news distributors, and one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, I guess all of you have been seeing (just as I've been) images from this company. In particular, one set of images called my attencion: the Palestinians celebrating the bombing, out on the streets, eating some cake and making
funny faces for the camera.

Well, THOSE IMAGES WERE SHOT BACK IN 1991!!! Those are images of Palestinians celebrating the invasion of Kuwait! It's simply unacceptable that a super-power of cumminications as CNN uses images which do not correspond to the reality in talking about so serious an
issue.

A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes recorded in 1991, with the very same images; he's been sending emails to CNN, Globo (the major TV network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself classify
as a crime against the public opinion. If anyone of you has access to this kind of files, serch for it. In the meanwhile, I'll try to 'put my hands' on a copy of this tape.

But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your people is hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast have very high possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians.
It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those.

Finally, I'd like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don't want to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had
shown no respect for other countries in the last decades. In the 60s and 70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout the world (including Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the Washington Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our economies, making us more and more dependant (and, many of us, prehocupied with this situation).

Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star Wars, Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external debt, tha abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations
between IRA and England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those mistakes in US external politics made your country more hatred than before, and, of course, more vulnerable.

Listen, I'm NOT justifying the terrorist actions that took place in your country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn't be suffering what you are
now.

Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of all of us

Márcio A. V. Carvalho
State University of Campinas - Brazil

This is a very interesting message but it has to be checked and double checked!

For scientific reasons I urgently need to get in contact with this Brasilian professor.

Please send more details to my e-mail adress: reference of the scientist in question, exact dates of the transmissions etc.

Yours sincerely

Dr. Jan Dumolyn,
Historical Methodology
History Department
University of Ghent, Belgium
09/2644040

The German private channel Pro7 ran this footage of dancing Palestinian children at least 20 times literally exulting in the depth of oriental evil and they would not let an Orientalist do an in-depth analysis of what motivates the children of Palestine.

This news would could be an indictment of a certain type of journalism if they bother to acknowledge their deceit.

dit is de url van die unief, voor de rest kan ik je niet helpen
http://www.unicamp.br
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keep an open mind, show us what you see and let us the freedom the make our own conclusions.

thank you.

I'd like a little more proof to your story than for you to say "Well, I have a teacher who says...." That's not proof and the fact that you never specifically mentioned that you've even seen this footage for yourself makes me more than a little skeptical. Though I admit it could be possible, I'm not going to base a decision based on this sketchy information.

I thought something was "off" about the clip of children watching the atrocity on TV, as the TV image was NOT of the twin towers or the Pentagon. It looked more like bombs going off...

"The truth is that [the] US government had shown no respect for other countries in the last decades ... It seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn't be suffering what you are now."

Regardless of the actions of the US government, there can be no justification for this attack on US citizens. And to suggest that a different course of action may have averted this terrorist assault is to ignore the realities of bin Laden's mindless violence:

* despite your rhetoric, Afghanistan was actually one of the countries to be helped by US military intervention, during its invasion by the Soviets;
* the 1993 attack came at the height of the peace process in Israel; and
* murdering thousands of innocents in the US cannot be interpreted in any way as being helpful to the cause of Muslims around the world.

Until you can contain your mad ramblings, I suggest you shut up.

The americans can do what they want and show what they want,, but allah will help us