Monday, July 26, 2010

Faked Photograph Shows How The Middle East Hasn't Changed Much


Barry Rubin
The Rubin Report
26 July '10

Ah, the good old days. It's March 1958. In Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser is mobilizing the Arab street to overthrow more traditional or moderate regimes, spouting anti-Western demagoguery.

One of the main such is in Iraq, the government of Nuri al-Said.

How can the Iraqis compete with Nasser, knowing that they have to counter his propaganda or die? Simple! The Israeli boogy-man. (How things have--not--changed!) So an Iraqi newspaper publishes the photo below, a clumsy forgery to "prove" Nasser is really a Zionist agent who just held a meeting with Israeli General Moshe Dayan.



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