Reply #24: Wonder how many DU posts there were about the corruption of Arafat [View All]

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and the Palestinian Authority.

I am not defending Halutz, mind you.

But I have to wonder of whether there were any opinions about all the funds that went to the Palestinian Authority that ended up in private bank account. We know that when Arafat died, his widow got several millions, but you will not find any reports from local newspapers report about him or others. This was one reason why Hamas won - the disgust with the corruptions of the "leaders."

And you will not find any newspaper story, in English, criticizing Hezbollah, or Nassrallah, or Ahmadinejad, certainly not in Iranian papers. Does anyone really think that everyone in Iran just adores him.

The only harsh criticism of the way Hezbollah ruined Lebanon came from a reporter of An Nahar... who is in DC, earlier this morning on CNN.

So when DUers glee over stories from Israeli sources criticizing the government, and the army, and the war, with harsher words than any DUer uses, please remember that you will not be able to find a similar story, in English, criticizing any other government in the Middle East.

This, of course, is democracy. How ironic that members of a web site called Democratic Underground have so little appreciating for this little fact.