This Week In Palestinian Blogs: The Vocabulary of War

17Jul06

By Naseem Tarawnah

The word ‘peace’ has never seemed further from the recent realities that have gripped the region. Instead, the word ‘conflict’ seems to dominate the undertones of every blogger who’s been keeping track of the developments in Palestine; and even ‘conflict’ feels like a euphemism these days.

Fayyad at Kabobfest looks at “today’s word…root cause”, a term promoted by world leaders such as George W. Bush, but always seeming to stop short of a comprehensive search of the actual ‘root causes’.

Speaking of being less than comprehensive, the media has been showing two sides of the war according to Christian Sunni of Palestinian Pundit, while Fadi at Kabobfest fills us in on the words you won’t hear on CNN.

Um Kahlil has some more talking points for the media, while Shaden is changing the channel.
[Continue]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us

0 Responses to “This Week In Palestinian Blogs: The Vocabulary of War”


  1. No Comments

Leave a Reply


Comment guidelines: No spamming, no profanity, and no flaming. Inappropriate comments will be deleted outright.




Where am I?

This is a single entry in the weblog.

"This Week In Palestinian Blogs: The Vocabulary of War" is filed under Arab World, Blogging, Global Voices Online, Human Rights, Israel, Media and Entertainment, News, Occupation, Others, Palestine, Palestine Blogs, Politics, Racism, War and blogs. It was published in July 2006.





Search my blog



Add me on Watwet


Recent entries



TLA Ads



Related Entries

  • No related posts


Latest Comments





    Buttons 'n Stuff



    International Campaign Against Honour Killings

    I'm an Author for Global Voices




    Firefox 2