The New Yorker’s expert on human rights in Gaza is interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air, alongside Ali Abunimah and John Mearsheimer. I’m sorry, that was a joke: the Abunimah and Mearsheimer. When it comes to Israel, the adventurous Gross can’t leave her comfort zone.
Notice how much play Fresh Air gives to the Shalit angle on its site. Grotesque. The relentless focus on Gilad Shalit– as 1.5 million Palestinians live in another type of imprisonment in Gaza, and 10,000 Palestinians are imprisoned inside Israel– reminds me of the savage line in Huckleberry Finn, when Huck tells Aunt Sally about an explosion on a steamboat.
“Good gracious! anybody hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a nigger.”
Compare to Tony Karon’s piece at Time Mag on possible lifting of blockade; he mentions Shalit only in passing, and not in the context of the blockade itself, whose political implications are far more significant to him.
