How come the 40th anniversery of the 6 day war between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan not big news here? I understand that the US media isn't going to cover it (the BBC has this impressive series about the war itself, and its aftermath).
And why aren't the protests against the continued occupation of Palestinian lands that occured in Washington, London and Tel Aviv being written about here (except here and here)?
From Democracy Now!:
Anti-Occupation Rallies Held In Tel Aviv, D.C., London
Major rallies were held in Washington, London, Tel Aviv this weekend to protest 40 years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Tel Aviv, thousands of Israeli peace activists and Palestinians marched to mark the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War when Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria and the Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt. Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank have lived under Israeli military occupation ever since. This is Israeli peace activist Dr. Dalit Baum.
Dr. Dalit Baum: "Well we have organized here a very very wide coalition of organizations from all different spectrums of Israeli political left, and we are going to march in Tel Aviv in order to remind people that this is forty years to the 67' war and the occupation of the territories in the West Bank and Gaza and the Golan Heights, and we are thinking that we need to walk around town -- this very quiet, very very content city -- and remind people that the occupation goes on and it needs to stop."
Meanwhile organizers said more than 5,000 people rallied against the occupation in Washington and more than 20,000 people marched in London.
Is this not news here?