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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yaacov who wrote (8471)	6/8/2005 1:06:59 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

Dual loyalties/traitors parade: Or is it the "Con the Americans Parade"? salutetoisrael.com salutetoisrael.com I did not see your mug Alex. len

To: Yaacov who wrote (8471)	6/11/2005 5:41:48 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

I see you use every trick in the book, huh? An opaque transparency The latest in a string of reactions to the horrors of Abu Ghraib, paintings of muscle-bound men by Latin America's best known living artist, Fernando Botero, will this week be on show as part of a retrospective in Rome. Rania Gaafar reflects on representations in the Middle East as a means to the formation and maintenance of memory [...] Torture is practised in culturally and socially specific ways. Arabs had to be tortured because their religious and cultural understanding and practise of sexual intimacy is a solely private and secret thing, and torture has to cut off that way back into the former social, religious and cultural networks of society. There is no return to a life before torture. Detainees have to be destroyed, physically and psychologically, socially and culturally, in order to remain isolated, within themselves, within their vacuum of trauma. This is also why Iraqis were tortured collectively, by being forced to rape one another. The torturer has to guarantee that there will be no alliance between the prisoners; on the contrary, prisoners have to become ashamed of one another which emphasises the feeling of total isolation and even more so subconscious revulsion for other detainees who were forced to watch him or her being abused -- in silence. Female soldiers were actively participating in torturing Iraqis. Western feminists, however, remained suspiciously silent while their calls for fighting "Islamist extremists" can hardly be overheard in Germany and elsewhere. In Anglo-American academia, the situation has been far more sensitive and international, encompassing anti-colonial impulses to some extent. One has to insist that in the colonial world, the social, cultural and biological role of women is essential to maintaining the colonial order abroad, in occupied territories. How far does the Western media perpetrate the verbal and visual phalanx of stigmatisation of Arabs, which seems impossible to break through? Language and words are action. Language produces the self, while the media and cultural politics are embroiled in creating cultural borders and bodily spaces. The relationship and interplay, between the Western media and cultural institutions in the Third World is what remains at stake. The world looked right into the bodies of the soul-deadened Iraqis, literally, the cameras creeping into the black holes of their bodies in an attempt to inflict a second death on them: photography is sublimated death, the clicking of the shutter being a metaphor for murder. And so the souls of Iraqis escape the anguish, in indescribable pain and disbelief, as the dreadful faces of their perpetrators turn away while the torturers, singularly aroused by their power and the sheer nakedness of their victims, photograph or film them on camera as they are sexually abused or abusing each other. [...] weekly.ahram.org.eg