While scouring the famed Souk Hamidiyyeh a week ago, I was baffled at the sight of some of the offerings: racy lacy lingerie numbers dangerously brushing the corners of Quranic verse wall hangings from adjoining stores, embarrassingly bad Disney/American cartoon knock-off trinkets and toys, and lastly, the ubiquity of Che paraphernalia-in particular, the store directly abreast of one of the most eminent mosques in Islamic history (and a site important in Christian history as well), the Omayyad Mosque, carried images of Che affixed on Palestine-shaped necklace pendants among other Che-themed jewelry pieces.
I understand ideologically connecting historic revolutionary freedom fighters with current oppressed peoples movements, but what's the deal with the widespread embrace of iconic images of Che by countries (like Syria) disenchanted with the contemporary imperial regime?
The reason for my befuddlement?
It was because I wasn't aware of the historic encounter between Che and Syria:
It was because comrade Che visited the renowned religiously significant mosque decades back (exact date unknown) on a visit to Syria!
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Che in Syria: Rare Video Clip
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May all those who share his vision, share his fate.
what, extrajudicial assassination by the CIA?!
As an American, you are proud of this? I didn't think there were many hardcore supporters of NSC-68 (and the political assassinations, coups and outrageous covert operations that characterized its secret implementation during the Cold War) left...
What do you think would happen if an Arab or anyone else assassinated Pat Robertson or some other deserving American just because they disagreed with him?
Somehow I don't think you'd support political assassination of polemic American figures, yet you support the killing of people like Che, simply because you disagree with him? I'd venture to guess you don't know the first thing about him.
From reading your rabid posts before, I'd guess you don't think any country deserves to have covert intelligence operations except America. Oh and Israel. Because WE need it to protect the 'homeland' and Israel needs them to protect stolen land.
Everyone else should take our unprovoked agression and like it, goddammit....America isn't a neoimperialist hegemonic power for nothing!
double standards, craig - hypocrisy is always exposed in the end.
May's a commie!
what, extrajudicial assassination by the CIA?!
I though he was kidnapped by space aliens? :O
That's an interesting alternate reality you've got going on in your head, anonymous.
As an American, you are proud of this?
And I just love to be told how I should feel, as an American, by somebody who at a minimum is a supporter of a violent communist. And probably a supporter of violent terrorists, to boot.
Right after the Israelis "left" southern lebanon I visited the newly-liberated Khiam prison. The cell walls had some heart-rending "please help me"-type stuff scratched into the walls in arabic, but there was one cell that had, below all of the arabic graffiti, the words "Che Guevara" scrawled....
BTW, you guys, this is a great blog! Just found it...
Saladin
http://soboredwiththeusa.blogspot.com/
That 'alternate reality' is called history not written by the US government and blind patriots too stupid to understand the meaning of the word.
I should think that US Cold War shennanigans, like assassinations and coups with catastrophic consequences that reverberate to this day, are nothing to be proud of - but if you are proud that America resorts to such dirty tricks to guard its business interests, then feel free. I'm sure you must be real proud then, of the US role in vietnam. Or guatemala. Or Iran. Or....
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