Susie Kneedler writes:
NPR has never mentioned Tristan Anderson that I know of. A search of its website yields
nothing, but today on "Morning Edition" has already announced the
"axe-wielding" militant's killing of the Israeli settler in the West
Bank.
link to www.npr.org
link to www.npr.org
"We're sorry, your search returned no results. Would you like to search for words which sound like Tristan Anderson? Would you like to search for Tristan OR Anderson?"
Is Tel Aviv a colony? Are the Jews living there colonists? Can you name me a Palestinian who does NOT think so?
Technically, I think the Israelis need to actually kill Mr. Anderson before NPR 'officially' ignores the story. As it stands now, it's just your run-of-the-mill omission.
It makes me think of the Al Franken bit on "the Al Franken Decade" whereby every question had to be posed as such, "How does this affect me…Al Franken."
NPR seems to have an unwritten (or written…who the hell knows?) policy of , "How does this affect me…the state of Israel" and if even the mere mention of a particular uncomfortable fact might make Zionists cry, it in essence, does not exist.
"Can you name me a Palestinian…?"
Bar Kochba
Say, Barry, weren't you banned for general insanity at TPM?
But you are crazy, you know. "Can you name me a Palestinian…"
Who the hell are you talking to? You're nuts, baby, plum loco.
It's that fascinating assumption of authourity which keeps me coming back for the Ziotrolls. What was it yesterday? Oh yeah, that's right: "Phil, you worship the Palestinians"
What can give a person that kind of vicarious omnipotence? Ziocaine, that's what.
Yes, Tel Aviv is a colony. Israel is a colony, like French Algeria.
I complained last year to my local newspaper, concerning its coverage of Phil's issue, calling the editor's attention to something highly newsworthy Avraham Burg had said that was quoted on this cite, and I pointed out that the paper reports with frequency on the Holocaust, yet had never even mentioned the Naqba according to searches of its site. Well, that word has now appeared twice since March 29, in different stories from the Middle East! So, Phil, send your post to the editorial board of NPR. It will start a conversation. It will start a thought. The spirit of Tristan Anderson will dwell in the thoughts and minds of those editors. Eventually, they will change course.
Jew Bites Dog?
I noticed the NYT put this horrible incident on the front page of its web edition. An attack on Israeli setters in Palestinian territory is front page news, but there is hardly any mention of the illegality of these settlements.
It isn't even controversial to say that they are "colonists'. The alternative would be to say that they were "natives'. It's a non-discussion, pure semantic triviality.
I don't think that NPR did a report on Tristan Anderson's 21 months of trespassing and tree-sitting at UC Berkeley. They don't do a report every time a person in the US is tased by a police officer, rightly or wrongly. And they don't do a report every time a protester is hit by a tear gas canister that bounces off of the ground into his head. Why should they? There are much more important issues facing the United States and NPR's listening audience than the injuries of a 38 year old crackpot who can think of nothing better to do than support Hamas and harass Israeli troops.
And no – they don't refer to Israeli's as "colonists" for the same reason they don't refer to Palestinians occupying the West Bank and Gaza as "colonists". It's a silly argument both ways.
During the recent Gaza civilian massacre CBS Evening News did a long feature about an Israeli soldier's funeral. He was killed by friendly fire. An Israeli soldier killed by friendly fire was given more national media attention in the US than all of the Palestinian children murdered by his peers. CBS will probably run today's story near the top of the show. Acts of violence against illegal Israeli settlers have been selected for news saturation just in case any Americans should have any feelings for the suffering of Palestinians.
Of course, now I get it! An axe-murderer who intentionally kills a 13-year-old boy and seriously wounds and maims a 7-year-old girl is exactly on par with the unintentional head injury to a 38-year-old protester who illegally entered Israel on false pretenses and who was harassing Israeli soldiers in a restricted area with a group of anarchists and who happened to be injured by a tear gas canister that bounced off the ground and into his head.
If you think for a moment that these two incidents are on the same moral level, you simply have no clue and are horrifically oblivious to what most sane people view as normative behavior.
@ Fenton
"And no – they don't refer to Israeli's as "colonists" for the same reason they don't refer to Palestinians occupying the West Bank and Gaza as "colonists". It's a silly argument both ways."
How so? Are you claiming Palestinians have not, do not resist dispossession and occupation
because they are colonists? How can one colonize his own land? Your argument is silly one way.
Are you a moron?
No citizen, but he has certainly identified you as an idiot.
oh, Berel, his comments are always so mechanical and moronic, he's really an argument for the necessity of ruthless eugenic pruning, himself, as he claims Rachel Corrie was.
sorry, I phrased that confusingly, i was talking of Berel, not of 'Citizen.' It is Berel who claims that the death of Rachel Corrie was a eugenically desirable event.