BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.

Subject: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: GUEST,John Gray in Oz
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:46 PM

My concept of "news" is being informed about something I didn't know about. Therefore, I cannot understand the media bombarding us with headlines, almost daily, about the conflict in the Middle East. Its not news - I've known about it for 45 years !
From the 50's it has read like this ;
1. Ceasefire negotiations being held by Palestine & Israel.
2. Unsteady truce.
3. Country A or B breaks ceasefire.
4. Major conflict breaks out again.
The newspapers could save a fortune on journalists - just keep reprinting any headline from the 50's. Nothings changed.
In fact, it has produced an advanced state of ennui in me.
I asked the 15 people I work with ; "are you interested in the Palestine/Israel conflict ?" Every one of them said they couldn't give a damn, they are bored shitless with it. Same reply when I put to to my friends at my Returned Service Club.
Now, this might not be a good thing, but it shows, that in the circle I move in, we are more interested the cricket scores.

JG/FME

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:51 PM

Same headlines from the Bible. This has been going on for some time now,eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: Wesley S
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:51 PM

"the circle I move in, we are more interested the cricket scores."

No way - The Superbowl is this Sunday...

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 03:07 PM

Oz has as many beloved distractions as the US, eh, John?

I suspect that is part of our problem. It is only when things become dangerously heated that we pay much attention. Maybe, just as with problem kids, 'problem' countries are likewise motivated.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 07:01 PM

You remind me that during the Camp David discussions which led to the peace between Egypt and Israel, I was in NZ and could barey find a word about it in the papers what with the All-Blacks selectors taking all the above the fold space. I think Carter, Begin, and Sadat were relegated to page 10 or thereabouts, and there weren't even 20 pages in the Herald or the Star or the Dominion.

Cheerio, mate!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: M.Ted
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 12:47 AM

In your sense, John Grey, there really isn't any news--people are born, people die, so that's not news, and they all do pretty much the same things in between, so that's not news either.
As to Cricket, well, let's not even go there.

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: Peace
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 10:04 PM

Cricket? Like with Buddy Holly?

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: KEVINOAF
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 02:13 AM

About time the BRITS stopped interfering in the Middle-east, they've pissed too often in the soup there!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: bubblyrat
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 11:32 AM

I hardly think that the BRITS are the only ones interfering in the Middle East. I can,without too much difficulty,think of another,much larger,country whose succesive governments have raised the practice of "interference in other countries'affairs",not just in the ME,but around the entire planet,to the level of an art form ! Their interference was MOST unwelcome during the attempts,by the BRITS and the French,to prevent the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in the 1950s----actions which have had repercussions in the ME ever since !!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: bubblyrat
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 11:33 AM

Sorry ! Missed out an "s" in "successive" !!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: KEVINOAF
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 06:06 AM

I'm not dispute the brits are the only ones pissing in the soup it's just they've done it for longer,and with greater incompetance !

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 02:57 AM

You're looking for news of something new and interesting and yet you follow cricket?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 07:58 PM

CNN reports:

" -- A Russian-led bloc of post-Soviet nations has agreed to establish a rapid-reaction military force to combat terrorists and respond to regional emergencies, Russian media reported Wednesday.

The decision came a day after reports that Kyrgyzstan is planning to close a strategically important U.S. military base that Washington uses to transport troops and supplies into Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, the Collective Security Treaty Organization -- made up of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan -- decided on the rapid-reaction force at a Kremlin summit, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported.

The group's security council "spent a long time discussing the central issue of forming collective reaction forces and, generally, of rapid reaction to possible threats," said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, according to Russian news agency Interfax."

Oy, another Cold War in the offing!.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 06:38 AM

And it starts om Obama's watch!

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: GUEST,bigrickpa
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 08:05 AM

From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 06:38 AM


'And it starts om Obama's watch!"

oh jeez, here we go!
do you think that 9 countries threw this together in the 3 weeks that obama's been in office?
or the 3 mos. since he was elected?
or maybe, just maybe, it might have been done in response to the unilateral militarism of your beloved bush administration?
the world is now scared of us, with good reason!there's plenty of sources to find this out, it's up to you to look for it.
or is it more important to you to have your viewpoint imposed on the world, fuck 'em if they don't like it?
for chrissake's man, you gotta take off the blinders! there's more than one political viewpoint in america, and even more in the world. if the last election cycle didn't show you,what will?
on second thought, why am i feeding the trolls?
i'm outta here.
rick

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 08:39 AM

Rick,

You will note that the 9/11 bombings are considered on Bush's watch- yet were planned before his election. Is this another time that Obama gets to pick a different set of rules than people applied to Bush????


Amos, one of those who did state that Bush was responsible for 9/11 because it happened on his watch made a comment about the new Cold War- I merely stated that it is occurring on Obama's watch. If that bothers you, why didn't the blame on Bush for things that started under previous administrations go right by you?

Double standard, or what???

Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Conflict, not news.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 08:41 AM

should be

"If that bothers you, why did the blame on Bush for things that started under previous administrations go right by you?"