Not surprisingly, Israeli commentators like Isi Leibler who writes in Israel Hayom ("This is Where We Stand"), "Our Adversaries are inhuman barbarians."
He argues, "The major problem today is that the international community denies the barbaric nature of Islamic fundamentalism " the whole region is a scorpions' den of barbaric activity."
Bear in mind that the term "barbarian" is commonly used to refer to the "uncivilized." It is always a reference to "the others,' the never quite humans we demonize and stereotype before seeking to kill.
And now, the Iranians are said to be moving militarily to support Shia groups using drones they built on our designs, and shipping weapons to the border so this conflict promises to escalate into a regional war.
Significantly, at the same time, the organizers of a film festival in Iran are calling attention to an anniversary: the shooting down of the (civilian) Iran air flight 655 by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988. The US never apologized for the incident and the ship's commanders won recognition.
To recognize the anniversary The Ammar Popular Film Festival has prepared some posters with a brief summary of the crimes they say US governments have committed against humanity
Once you see them, you realize how the past is never past, and
that hatred of past crimes, in the absence of power sharing through negotiations
and justice for war criminals, easily turns into fuel for future ones.
News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs at Newsdissector.net and works on Mediachannel.org. He has directed a film and written two books on media complicity in the Iraq War. Comments to dissector at mediachannel.org,
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