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Nada, zilch, finito– the media snowjob of mass proportions

Delphine Seyrig in a scen 007
Prop her up and grab the smelling salts, ethnic cleansing and #hasbaraFAIL

Israel and US media are thumping the Ultra Orthodox flurry in Israel to hide the division of the West Bank, and it is happening right under our noses, right before our eyes, right now, and we are sleeping. I know this in my bones. Listen:

Sometimes I go all roundabout getting where I am supposed to go on these excruciating efforts of journalism, so I’m going to try to cut to the chase, please hear me out.  I knew, like any news hound knows, something was gonna come down this week. I was ‘holiday preoccupied’ for much of the last weekend, which was why I woke up at 4 am on Monday morning and started scouring the blogs, MSM and Twitter.

Although I can’t recall how I first stumbled upon the story of 8-year-old Naama (background– open that link!) but as soon as I saw the source (LATimes, no slouch) and video I realized it was old news and thought to myself, WTF and why now? I knew it was a distraction.

How does some anonymous blogger calling herself Mother in Israel happen to add subtitles to a TV show that aired Friday night in Israel and have that video land in the LA Times by Monday morning? And then the news just happens to spread like wildfire by Tuesday? Connections, that’s how. And maybe huge (pdf) intention.

I read this:

Linah Alsaafin
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On-going Judaizaton of Jerusalem, leading to division of the west bank itself haaretz.com/print-edition/… #previoustweet
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I caught  Joseph Dana‘s tweets (and hat-tipped him). “bait & switch tactic used by the ‘liberals’ of the society”. The Haredi thing was the bait & switch. The big news is this:

 Haaretz

Both the Americans and the Palestinians claim that building in E1 would in effect cut the West Bank into two sections and make it impossible to establish a Palestinian state with any kind of reasonable territorial contiguity.

The big tamale. (Allison hits this angle in her post today on 70,000 Jerusalemites denied residency in the blink of an eye). This is what Norm Finkelstein was talking about (1:41:00 watch it!) when he said you can’t have a Palestinian state if you cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank. Referencing the annexing of ‘settlement blocs’ (note the distinction between settlements and settlement blocs)  and Ma’ale Adumim. He says once Israel sets its mind on annexing certain ‘settlement blocs’ there is no chance for a Palestinian State. He’s very clear:

There is no East Jerusalem unless it’s organically connected with the rest of the West Bank. And there is just no possibility of a Palestinian State with this settlement bloc. It’s not a matter of being stubborn or unreasonable, it’s simply ..an objective fact…..if you don’t have East Jerusalem as an organic part of the Palestinian state there is NO economy. There is no state.

There’s no way our State Department doesn’t understand this. No way. (read Alex Kane!).

The Haredi thing? That was so happening last fall. There were several videos available from the fall and I posted a sampling below. Plus, remember the parking lot fiasco? Huge riots every week on the street and nada zilch finito in the MSM here. Remember the woman who starved her child and the baby was taken to the hospital by the state!?!..Huge riots in Israel, nada zilch nothing here…Remember the school issue when the state stepped in and made them (aghast) integrate (w/another segment of religious..not ARABS or anything that radical!) nada zilch in the msm here.

So, for our holiday diversion pleasure while the US is being inundated with smelling salts over Haredi violence is damaging Israel’s image, Israel is ethnically cleansing and NOTHING is being spoken shhhh here.

Here’s the old news hauled out this week: Sep 8, 2011

Sep 6, 2011
Sep 25, 2011

There’s a lot more at those YouTube pages on the sidelines.

Did the US msm even care until the week between Christmas and New Year’s? NO, not one itty bitty iota. Why do they care now? To distract you! WAKE UP!

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Thank you, annie. I noticed this too but it’s from this Haaretz article, not the Rosenblit article you link to above. You got the quote right. The link is wrong.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-gearing-for-effective-separation-of-east-jerusalem-palestinians-1.403034

This article is why I like you. You’re a Jack Russell with a smarter head on your shoulders. And you look for patterns while everyone else is taking the vapors over issues that either don’t matter, or are not placed in the correct context with verification. (Case in point: Lizzy Ratner on Ron Paul today without a word about his denial, or verifying where those newsletters were originally sent out from. P.S. I am neither for, nor against, RP.)

Organizations like Hiddush have been working hard to make this story pop in U.S. for some time, because they (genuinely) oppose religious coercion in Israel. Lo and behold, Hiddush folks were at the Union of Reform Judaism’s ‘Biennial’ recently, connecting and strengthening their ability to reach US audiences with stories from the religious wars inside Israeli society.
Of course, I’m not privy to any FACTS from this or that media outlet to prove it, but it seems more likely that this story is popping now because folks who care about it have been pushing for some time and finally got their ducks in a row. All the events that didn’t get press in the past help make the case to certain editors that they should finally pay more attention.

A key point of the Naama Haredi conflict articles is being missed.

We are supposed to sympathize with racist American Jews, who relocate to Israel possibly to live in a home stolen from Palestinians, probably on land stolen from Palestinians, and definitely in a country stolen from Palestinians.

Little Naama and her crooked American Jewish family should return to the USA, where at least in theory they could not get away with robbing non-Jews.

LOL. Because, once again, as we all know, stories always catch fire as soon as they happen, and never when there’s a human face to put on the story. No, it’s all a BIG CONSPIRACY!!!!

Way OT but thank you for the photo of éthérée Delphine Seyrig (born in Beirut Lebanon).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6n2McMAnY I think this is the only film with wardrobe, coiffure & maquillage actually by Coco Chanel herself. A nice break from I/P horrors.