Sunday, October 01, 2006

Not All Terrorists Are Equal

Kurds...Palestinians...Kurds...Palestinians...

Which does the media prefer?
Which one is played more sympatheticaly?
Which one kills innocent women and children...and Americans?

A Kurdistan rebel group offers a cease-fire.
Turkey takes a hard line and refuses.
With no international outrage.

Mere Rhetoric writes:
The Kurds, of course, are a stateless Middle East peoples that have never been offered a state in any form. This distinguishes them from the Palestinians, who (a) have literal cousins in countries like Jordan and Egypt and (b) have been offered a state several times. And yet when they call for a ceasefire, it seems quite natural for Turkey to say 'actually, no - you're a bunch of terrorists and we know how to deal with terrorists'. Can you imagine the global din of outrage if Israel reacted the same way to a Hamas ceasefire call?
Yup.

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