Burning Bush: Khartoum Protest Photos

I was back home in Boston for the holidays so I missed the protests in downtown Khartoum, which happened a few days after Christmas. Ho-hum, I guess. Israeli and American flags were burned, "Death to Israel/America!" chants were chanted. (The "Not That We No Longer Support It, But on the Road to a Two-State Solution, This Seems Like a Setback" chants were totally out-of-sync.)

This link is fun, by the way -- it has a picture of a picture of ex-President Stupidhead being set aflame. Also, someone ran down to Kinkos and printed up a massive portrait of Hamas President Ismail Something. The best photo of all, however, is the one of the protesters holding up what look like cardboard rockets, which have "Hamas" written on them. LOL! I think.

I mean, if the whole point of bringing stupid-looking, rinky-dink rockets to the protest was to signify Palestine's (relative) harmlessness, and to make the implicit argument that killing hundreds of innocent people is a disproportionate response to one person being killed -- by a rocket that looks like an 8th grader's science project, no less -- then, let's be honest: we have a surprisingly high-minded mode of commentary on our hands. This is, after all, a pyromaniacal mob. And pyromaniacal mobs aren't generally known for clever, subversive forms of protest. (They're better known for: fires.) But this is why they had these rockets, right? Has to be.

Because the alternative is, well, too stupid to consider. (That they just actually wanted Palestine to keep launching stupid-looking, rinky-dink rockets -- so they brought some. To the protest. To be like, "We want you to launch rockets. So we brought some. Rockets. Just to show you that you should launch them.")

Anyway, people here kind of hate America right now. I might talk about that soon. But, in the meantime, watch and listen to this. Over, and over, and over again.