Whodey thinks that "Having the world ignore genocide in Darfur is what is pathetic".
http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com/board/showthread.php?subject=Ship_to_Gaza&threadid=130634
So, let's discuss it. Why is there so much more international media attention on Palestine vs Darfur? Is the moral situation fundamentally different?
Originally posted by AThousandYoungYou mean other than the obvious- that people of the same ethnicity of those being murdered in Darfur are not sitting on much of the World's oil?
Whodey thinks that "Having the world ignore genocide in Darfur is what is pathetic".
http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com/board/showthread.php?subject=Ship_to_Gaza&threadid=130634
So, let's discuss it. Why is there so much more international media attention on Palestine vs Darfur? Is the moral situation fundamentally different?
Originally posted by AThousandYoung(Cricket chirping)
Whodey thinks that "Having the world ignore genocide in Darfur is what is pathetic".
http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com/board/showthread.php?subject=Ship_to_Gaza&threadid=130634
So, let's discuss it. Why is there so much more international media attention on Palestine vs Darfur? Is the moral situation fundamentally different?
Good luck with that!!
Originally posted by adam warlockWell lets see, there is a GENOCIDE going on in Darfur but not so in Palestine yet the media is consumed with Israel.
Why is there so much more international media attention on Palestine vs Darfur? Is the moral situation fundamentally different?
Speaking of Israel, did you all here that they claimed to board that ship to prevent weapons from going into Gaza to fight them when we all know that they simply enjoy playing pirate!! Oh the outrage!!
Originally posted by whodeyI fail to see any answer to the two questions that were posed.
Well lets see, there is a GENOCIDE going on in Darfur but not so in Palestine yet the media is consumed with Israel.
Speaking of Israel, did you all here that they claimed to board that ship to prevent weapons from going into Gaza to fight them when we all know that they simply enjoy playing pirate!! Oh the outrage!!
Originally posted by sh76I like the way that was written. Very thought provoking. The World is capitalized, as though it were a person...like Society. It implies that this oil belongs to everybody...
You mean other than the obvious- that people of the same ethnicity of those being murdered in Darfur are not sitting on much of the World's oil?
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI did not mean to imply that.
I like the way that was written. Very thought provoking. The World is capitalized, as though it were a person...like Society. It implies that this oil belongs to everybody...
Oil belongs to the country (or person) under whose property it sits.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThe "eastern Mediterranean coast" has no strategic significance. Oil has plenty of strategic significance.
I know it wasn't intentional. Not necessarily even subconscious. It did make me think though.
Is Israel sitting on the World's eastern Mediterranean coast in the same way that the Arab world is sitting on the World's oil?
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Originally posted by sh76It is the center of trade for Eurasia/Africa and the center of religion for the Abrahamic religions. It is in position to control the Sinai and the Dardanelles. Constantinople was founded so the Romans could be closer to the Levant! It's in the center of the Fertile Crescent and has access to the Mediterranean world as well...
Care to explain what significance the "eastern Mediterranean coast" has?
I'm surprised I need to point this out.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung1) Egypt controls the only significant shipping lane through the Sinai
It is the center of trade for Eurasia and the center of religion for the Abrahamic religions. It is in position to control the Sinai and the Dardanelles. Constantinople was founded so the Romans could be closer to the Levant! It's in the center of the Fertile Crescent and has access to the Mediterranean world as well...
I'm surprised I need to point this out.
2) Turkey controls the Dardanelles
3) No one needs to go through Israel to access any other point in the Middle East
I don't understand at all the concept that Israel has control of the "eastern Mediterranean coast."
Originally posted by sh761) Israel has taken the Sinai before.
1) Egypt controls the only significant shipping lane through the Sinai
2) Turkey controls the Dardanelles
3) No one needs to go through Israel to access any other point in the Middle East
I don't understand at all the concept that Israel has control of the "eastern Mediterranean coast."
2) The Ottoman Empire controlled the Eastern Med when it was able to.
3) It makes it harder if you have to avoid Israel though.