Why Darfur Is Generally Ignored By Middle Easterners

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Robert Cohen - 15 Dec 2004 03:45 GMT

If you read this article (from the anti-Iraq War & anti-establishment medium
ALTER NET), then it should be somewhat more understandable why the Darfur
situation gets such minimal press by many with the mentality which holds the
view of Israel/Jews as evil by way of the Palestine situation

Does AL JAZEERA have any reporters/cameras in Darfur? Just kindly ask 'em, and
please post any response (especially contradicting my point), so that I may
then intellectually acknowledge such here

My current perception of AL JAZEERA is that it's not about reporting the
who-what-when-where-why of that ugly, embarrassing, racialist, genocidal
conflict that does not feature their usual villains Israel & the U.S.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/20740/

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Robert Cohen - 21 Dec 2004 02:00 GMT

I said I'd acknowledge what (if anything) AL JAZEERA is publishing about
Darfur, and so here's some:

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=6291

and what does this mean to my main accusation or theme that the
man-on-the-street in the greater Middle East or Araby is under-informed about
Darfur and is, meanwhile, unrelentingly being propagandized against
Israel/Jews?

well, here is the AL JAZEERA English language internet front page today:

http://www.aljazeera.com/home.asp

meanwhile, i swear this is what i heard the AL JAZEERA washington, d.c.
correspondent proclaim on C-SPAN last week:

'AL JAZEERA has/had been originally considered in the Middle East as being
pro-zionist'

i sincerely perceive there is little/no hope for peace in the world without
arab & palestinian public opinion being more candidly informed by their own
media, teachers, leaders, intellectuals, friends

their negative holding about/against israel seemingly obsessively prevails over
everything including the outrageous moslem v moslem darfur "racialist-ethnic
genocide"

does AL JAZEERA have a camera crew doing footage for Darfur stories?

i doubt it, as they probably perceive they'll get killed for getting in Sudan's
murderous way and telecasting anything sensationally unflattering a la Iraq &
Israel

if they do telecasting from sudan, then please let me know, as i am obviously
interested

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Robert Cohen - 31 Dec 2004 21:11 GMT

If this successfully holds, then I perceive it's good for leading-encouraging
more rational & win-win & adaptive compromises for the Middle East

copyrighted by the ny times 2004

Sudan's Government Signs Peace Deal With Rebel Group
By MARC LACEY

Published: December 31, 2004

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec. 31 - The government of Sudan signed a preliminary peace
deal tonight with a rebel group from the country's impoverished south that
could end one of Africa's longest-running civil wars, even as the conflict in
the western deserts of Darfur continued.

The two sides, which gathered at a resort on the edge of Lake Naivasha in
Kenya, penned a power-sharing agreement and what they called - and diplomats
hoped would become - a permanent cease-fire.

The war in Sudan's western Darfur region involves different rebels and
different victims, however, and peace talks aimed at quelling that crisis have
faltered.

Lieut. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, Sudan's president, was on hand for
today's signing ceremony, as was John Garang, the head of the Sudan People's
Liberation Army. Under the deal, he will soon become one of Mr. Bashir's vice
presidents.

Also in attendance was President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, who committed
assistance from his country and from the African Union to try to make the deal
stick.

"Africa begins the year 2005 on a very good footing," said Mr. Mbeki, adding,
"Let's party!"

American officials say that bringing the southern rebels into the government
could make it easier for Khartoum to reach out to other rebel movements in the
western

<nytimes.com>

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Why Darfur Is Generally Ignored By Middle Easterners