Rick Congress posted this on his blog, Politics, Music & Irony.
Here is the news item:
Army: Palestinian Kills 5 In West Bank Settlement
by The Associated Press
March 11, 2011
The Israeli military says a Palestinian has infiltrated a Jewish West Bank settlement and killed five people.
Israeli media is reporting that the dead are all members of the same family — parents and three children.
The military says it is sweeping the area in search of the perpetrator and has set up checkpoints throughout the West Bank.
The attack early Saturday in the northern West Bank settlement of Itamar is the first of its kind in years. It marks a rare outburst of violence during a relatively calm period.
Itamar is home to some of the West Bank’s most fervent settlers. The attack took place in the middle of the night against a religious community on the Jewish Sabbath.
Here is the news story deconstructed:
1) Five members of one family living in a West Bank settlement (armed expansionist colony) are killed. This is bad. People should not be killed. The usual crowd (US Congressional Reps, AIPAC, ADL, Dershowitz, obese Jerry Nadler, et al) will be baying for a retaliation (say, blowing up a village or two) and talking heads will tsk, tsk about blood thirsty Arabs who can’t get along with the “Jewish and Democratic state.”
2) The legal protection of the “Jewish and Democratic state” exists for the 500,000 Israeli citizens who live in colonies in the West Bank, which is actually outside the internationally recognized borders of said state. However, the 2.5 million Palestinians who are in the West Bank live under Israeli military law.
3) Not mentioned in the AP story is the verifiable fact that about one Palestinian under occupation has been killed every other day for the last solid year by armed settlers and the Israeli Army.
4) The AP story calls the killings in Itmar “A rare outburst of violence during a relatively calm period.” From this we learn that the definition of “a relatively calm period” is one in which scores of Palestinians are killed, hundreds are tear gassed and shot while engaging in peaceful protests against their land being stolen, and armed settlers systematically destroy orchards being cultivated by Palestinian farmers.
5) Calmness, we must conclude, prevails only when illegal settlers are free to attack Palestinian civilians, with no risk to there own wellbeing and serenity.
