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Well there *are* certain similarities - one group tried to commit genocide on the other, got their arses handed to them in a sling, ran away over the border into someone else's country and have sat there attacking the winners ever since whilst also whining to the international community about their terrible plight.
The last line is wonderful - 'their enemies tried to exterminate them but now they are in power again how *dare* they defend themselves'.
Tutsi-Jewish Solidarity!
Pete,
Great screen capture - I have cross posted on Biased BBC.
David -
You're welcome. Regular BBC watchers will recognise that stock phrase associated with BBC propaganda: " ... has been described by some ..."
Have any Rwandans complained yet?
The slant of the article is that Rwanda suffers from external attacks by a genocidal group that it expelled, which I suppose is vaguely comparable. You could read it that Israel and Rwanda are both victims,
The text continues: "The parallels with Israel are not exact, of course.". Too damn right - Israel is a full Western democracy, a beacon of civilization in a sea of dysfunction. The narrative is hopelessly confused and pernicious.
Having read the article, I see it as an example more of the sloppy and puerile pseudo journalism that now characterises the cozy bureaucracy of the BBC - the groupthink includes a metropolitan bias that knows little of the situation that most of the world lives in, a general lack of professionalism engendered by our debased education system, and a view that "we" could never behave like those who, pushed to the limit, choose to fight for their freedom.
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The slant of the article is that Rwanda suffers from external attacks by a genocidal group that it expelled, which I suppose is vaguely comparable. You could read it that Israel and Rwanda are both victims,
The text continues: "The parallels with Israel are not exact, of course.". Too damn right - Israel is a full Western democracy, a beacon of civilization in a sea of dysfunction. The narrative is hopelessly confused and pernicious.
Having read the article, I see it as an example more of the sloppy and puerile pseudo journalism that now characterises the cozy bureaucracy of the BBC - the groupthink includes a metropolitan bias that knows little of the situation that most of the world lives in, a general lack of professionalism engendered by our debased education system, and a view that "we" could never behave like those who, pushed to the limit, choose to fight for their freedom.