Friday, December 24, 2004

Feeding Frenzy among Conspiracy Artists

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs posts about Iranian television running a drama series called "For You Palestine" or "Zahra’s Blue Eyes". It follows the fictional career of an Israeli General in his bid to become Prime Minister of Israel.

In Episode 1, Yitzhak Cohen lectures at a medical conference on the advances being made by Israeli medicine regarding organ transplants. Later in the episode, Israelis disguised as UN workers visit a Palestinian school, ostensibly to examine the children’s eyes for diseases, but in reality to select which children’s eyes to steal to be used for further transplants.

In Episode 2, the audience learns that the Israeli president is being kept alive by organs stolen from Palestinian children, and an Israeli military commander is seen kidnapping UN employees and Palestinians.

If this isn’t a case of arrested development, what is?

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