Friday, September 3, 2004
Things like this, that's why. I had meant to link to this previously. Reposted in full from Norm Geras.
normblog: Point and counterpoint:
A small, not widely noticed, detail from the end of the 2004 Olympiad:
At the proposal of its Commission for Culture and Olympic Education, the IOC has awarded the Olympiart prize to Mikis Theodorakis. This Prize was established in 1992 to recognise artists who contribute through their work to the promotion of sport, young people and peace. It was presented at the close of the 116th IOC Session in Athens.
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In his tribute, the Chairman of the Commission for Culture and Olympic Education, Zhenliang He, presented Mikis Theodorakis as a man who symbolises the spirit of the country of origin of the Olympic Games, as a man of peace who has never ceased to fight for freedom, and as a man of culture who has brought Greek music to the stage of the entire world for four decades.
That's the Mikis Theodorakis who thinks...
Jews are... at the root of evil... They hold world finance in their hands... The Jewish people control most of the big symphonic orchestras in the world... [they] now appear to control the big banks. And often the governments.
I wonder when we'll see someone who has expressed such poisonous beliefs towards some other religious, racial or ethnic group - beliefs Theodorakis shares with your average neo-Nazi thug - being lauded as a man of peace.
That's the tip of the iceburg for Theodorakis, lest anyone unfamiliar suffers under the impression that the quote above was an ill-thought one-off by the composer. It wasn't.
aloha, I havent commented in a long time. But you get read.. Hey dont you think that most "Eurabian" leaders think this way? And they stiil get their pats on the back from the Left... Look at who is sitting on UN councils these days Sudan? Syria? Brother... When Zell Miller made the statement about outsourcing US national security he was right. The UN has NO Biz telling us to "wait and lets see how things go " If some one attacks us go after them.
Lets see if the UN stops Putin from bombing the crud out of Chechnya. Wont happen.