Ethan Bronner has a piece in the Times today called "Israel Is Wary of Calm Days that May End in Turmoil." It’s about how Israel is having a calm, prosperous summer, but is wary of what lies ahead. Maybe Arab violence…
Most of this article could have been written by AIPAC or by the IDF information office, My friend James North says. "He doesn’t go to Gaza to see how they’re living now. They might be fearing other attacks. If anyone faces large scale attacks there, it’s the Palestinians." I often point out that Bronner is married to an Israeli. This piece is too deeply immersed in Israeli consciousness. The Times should struggle to break free of these confinements.
And worse: Does Bronner ever feel a need to write about this: “Israeli School Apartheid,” by Jonathan Cook, Counterpunch, 8/10/09
An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care center on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages, accusing her of racist incitement against their child.
Maysa and Shuaa Zuabi, from the village of Sulam in northern Israel, launched the court action last week saying they had been "shocked and humiliated" when the center’s owner told them that six Jewish parents had demanded their daughter’s removal because she is an Arab.
Imagine the Bronner of the Deep South. Plantation life is fine, but many fear an uprising…
(Thanks to Nancy Kricorian and Helen Schiff)
