The Polls
I am so excited to see CNN poll results now. You know, when I first wrote this article, and I voted ‘No’, there was 77% saying ‘Yes’, now, this is looking better, but killing innocents at both sides continues, and poll still open!!!
Posted by Haitham Sabbah
Enjoy this post? Get future updates sent to you for free! Join by 
17 Comments on “The Polls”
I?m surprised by the poll, too.
very good news,the poll was depressing me .
Actually we lost the poll when it was on the first page, Later on when we all started sending mail around and posting about it. People paid attention and started voting reaching 77% for “NO” then went down as you see
My goodness…. over a million votes in total.
Looks like there’s been some serious ‘rallying of support’ on both sides.
Thankfully, we’re on top now!
Also, CNN edits your comments for its own interest and states it as a time constraint.
If i criticise CNN Christian Amanpour on showing the negative side of other societies. This will be highlighted but not a criticism with respect to their own societies. For example: AIDS in Africa documentry of CNN where it points out that poor africans, who are deprived of the very right to exist, right for knowledge, right to protect, right to exist and right to choose their own government. She was suprised to note that ” Do the men send their women for prostitution to the cities”. As if it doesnt happen in their countries, highly developed nations. There are numerous documentaries highlight such issues in eastern european and in nations such as Swiss as well.
If there are documented evidences of racial profiling in education system in european nations or the united states itself. They are not highlighted. Is there any credibility of this organization.
We do not have the right to exist and right to choose our own governments or defend our nations
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/21/cameroon.justice.reut/index.html
Haitham check this article on jungle justice. A police cop used to terrorise people and harrass them. What people have done. I draw similar analogy to the terrorism of ISRAEL and United States and ofcourse the UNited Nations (which is biased with these bloodthirsty Nations). What should we do, and our leaders are helpless. The only option is we fight, we fight and our allies fight in their homelands. Lets take the fight to their lands rather than ours. How is it justified that palestinian and lebaneese and kashmiri homes are destroyed and they can live in palaces.
Qwaider:
Dear Qwaider,
the poll is still on the first page
It appers on each new article submitted about the Lebanese crisis, It’s still there , on the first page
Sabbah:
Thank you bro,
you are the best!! jazak Allah 5air…Im with you wholeheartedly
It doesn’t surprise me at all that western media reports of the conflict in Lebanon have evoked a slightly different response to the usual reports of Israeli atrocities in the West Bank and Gaza. The reason for this is not just the casualties, as the Palestinians have suffered quite enough of those too! Rather, to be somewhat cynical, it is the more “western friendly” characteristics of the Lebanese diaspora when they give interviews to channels such as “CNN”, “BBC” and other global news channels. Unfortunately, the neo-fascist “Fox News” are a lost cause!
As I write about these issues frequently, I have to view ALOT of TV coverage regarding the whole sorry mess in the Middle East. Unfortunately, when reporting on Palestine (or Iraq for that matter) most western news channels resort to the same formula, which is usually a (rightly) furious old woman crying and screaming at the camera, swiftly followed by a bunch of sweaty men jumping up and down with AK 47s screaming “death to Israel” and of course “death to America”. This style of creative editing is designed to alienate, and ties in very nicely with negative, racist stereotypes of the Palistinians / Iraqis which have been furnished by Israel and the US, that of the strange, unpredictable, inherently violent Arab. With Lebanon however this has NOT been the case.
The reason for this is that the Lebanese diaspora mentioned above were scattered to many parts of the world as a result of the ghastly civil war in Lebanon from 1975 onward. Most notably, many of these travelled to English and French speaking countries like Canada, the US, the UK and France who have had a long history with the Lebanese. Most of the Lebanese interviwees captured by the media for interviews have been members of this diaspora, who happened to be returning to the land of their birth on the outbreak of hostilities. As they have been residents of the countries mentioned above for decades, of course, their english is perfect, their manner much more “western”, hence the average, mostly ignorant viewer in the above mentioned countries could identify with them and their plight much more.
Sad but true!
I think that that is very insightful, Paul. I completely agree…whenever you see Palestinians on the news they are always depicted as rock-throwing, anti-Semitic crazies. However, it seems to be more balanced with the coverage of the Lebanese. Nonetheless, I am upset about how the news channels seem to completely neglect to mention the root of all this fighting: the Palestinian problem. In this way Hezbollah is pictured as a bunch of militant crazies who are attacking Israel for no reason rather than a group who is fighting for a cause. I am not saying that Hezbollah is or is not justified, I just think that more Americans would understand their point of view if this war was presented within the full historical context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Thankyou Jane, I think that you are perceptive too, as the ongoing murders in Gaza have indeed been completely ignored since the Lebanese conflict started. Also Iraq, which is rapidly descending into complete civil war with over a hundred deaths daily (which is even worse than Lebanon). I think that Haitham should make some more posts about these too!
If the news channels covered the Israeli side in the same way, every time something happened, they would go straight to the Chabad Jews (like the ones in Haithams picture) kissing bombs and chanting “death to Palestinians, death to Lebanese!”