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Obama Change

I am not talking about Obama being Martin Luther King. No, I mean a real king! Maybe even an emperor… With all its pro’s and all it’s cons… ;-)

I am really happy that Obama is becoming the next president of the United States of America. It is about time that the leadership of the USA is changed, after these years.

Is everything Obama says to be happy about? I am not sure. I have doubts about his ideas on the Middle East. Not because I think he is a muslim. He is as much a muslim as I am a christian, I think.

But I believe that he, more than a republican, can see things differently. We need a new way of looking at the world and a new way of thinking. We need a man with his own passport and stamps in it!

Can we change the world?

YES, We Can!

Watching the breaking news at BBC World about the terrorist attack at a yeshiva in Jerusalem right now. The title is ‘ISRAEL VIOLENCE: 9 people killed including attacker”.

For me it is interesting to see that the terrorist is counted in in the amount of killed people. Next to that the header “Israel violence” gives me a biased taste. Am I wrong?

In another report there is an interview with a certain Jerry Lewis. The interviewer states that the students at the yeshiva are learning about zionism. He is corrected by this Jerry Lewis, who says: “No, there are learning about judaism. They are reading scriptures and discussing them”.

There are no critical words about Gaza, where people are celebrating the newest killing of innocent religious students, by shooting in the air and kissing the soil.

The first report I saw, was followed by a commercial of World Travel & Tourism Council in Dubai 20-22 april 2008. Is this lack of critical questions caused by this?

It is interesting and extremely sad, but not new, to see that the Dutch press is giving an biased view on the Israeli raids, just like the press in most other countries, the UK for instance.

An important example is seen here. NOS Teletekst (an extra signal to the television signal) is one of the major newssources of the Dutch. The NOS is know as a bastion of lefties and they show it again.

The story is that the bad Israelis did some air strikes on targets in Gaza, like they did last wednesday.

The last paragraph is a kind of “Oh yes, didn’t I tell you? Oh, sorry for that!”: |Yes, there were 100 rockets fired to the city of Sderot, close to Gaza. Aren’t they used to it now?

I can tell you that I will never get use to a biased press.

Read more at Ru55el’s!

Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant is asking an interesting question about the case of the missing 4-years old British girl, Madeleine, in Portugal.
I had been thinking about the same the last few days… I was afraid to be called insensitive. But my opinion is shared.

To my opinion this missing/kidnapping is a very sad and for all personal tragedy for the parents. But the Dutch media, following the really hysteric UK press, are making a real hype of it.

There are children missing in every country in Europe (just to take a geographic dividing line) every day and we don’t hear anything of it. But this news is BIG and everywhere!

The news came as the family and friends of Madeleine McCann launched a fund to help trace the four-year-old and bring her abductors to justice.

Unveiled at Leicester’s Walkers Stadium yesterday, Madeleine’s Fund is inviting people to make donations in person at their local bank, by post or via the internet to help pay for Maddie’s parents, Gerry and Kate, to stay in Portugal to continue their search.

citation from icLiverpool.co.uk

Even David Beckam is donation money, out of the USA.

I have another comparison in my head, but saying that will be about the same as blasphemy. If you want to know, ask me…

source: De Volkskrant (sorry, Dutch only)

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