Mahmoud Sarsak has been on hunger strike for 12 weeks to protest the fact that he was arrested three years ago and has never been charged. He is at death’s door, his supporters are issuing international pleas for action, and there are rumors of a deal going forward to save his life, and save Israel the political cost of his death in custody.
The New York Times has yet to consider his case newsworthy.
Meantime, from Isabel Kershner in the New York Times on June 6: Settlers rage over the Israeli government’s refusal to legalize a settler outpost.
Hundreds converged on Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest in front of the Supreme Court and Parliament. About 50 settlers staged a hunger strike here over the last week, while others arrived after a three-day march from Beit El, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem. Young demonstrators tried to block roads and burned tires.
…Hillel Fendel, 54, a veteran resident of Beit El who refused food for four days, said that Mr. Netanyahu’s plan to relocate the buildings was “a very fantastic kind of idea that we don’t believe can be carried out.”
It’s the New York Times, zio-America’s premier propaganda outlet… Besides, can it be considered a double standard if they have no real standards to begin with?
No surprise about serious double standards at the New York very bloody Times.
Get the Israelis out of the NYT and you might have a semblance of objectivity.
And when I write “Israelis” I am referring to all the American Jews who work at the newspaper and have fallen head over heels for their beloved darling Israel, so much so that they protect her and peddle lies and spin painting her as some poor misunderstood country.
“American Jews who work at the newspaper and have fallen head over heels for their beloved darling Israel”. Reporters? Editors? Owners? Advertisers? Honestly, I don’t know how political and economic power are exercised in the USA today. Could be the owners have an elegant lunch one a week with some ziobot who, with hos or her little finger elegantly curled just so, would be very upset by publication in NYT of news of the sort we see daily on MW, and for that tiny SOCIAL reason, the editors slant the news. Isn’t this how anti-black politics worked in the American South for so long?
At long last, first FIFPro and now FIFA showed solidarity. link to edition.cnn.com
“FIFA urgently calls on IFA to draw the attention of the Israeli competent authorities to the present matter, with the aim of ensuring the physical integrity of the concerned players as well as their right for due process.”
Kudos to FIFPro. I wonder what will happen next: Israel cannot dismiss FIFA as easily as UN.
“Israel cannot dismiss FIFA as easily as UN.”
You must be joking. A country whose Interior Minister declares “this country is for the White man” is gonna crack in the face of a *soccer* group?
A country whose Interior Minister can say this and be protected saying this by the major American media and indeed the American government? And, probably, the major European media and major European governments?
I guess you are an American. In USA, soccer is a proper sport for college girls and more eccentric boys. In Europe this is football, and there is really no American equivalent how widely and intensely the sport is followed there, and basically everywhere outside North America. There are three types of international competitions in soccer, national teams, champions of national leagues and the Cup of Cup Winners, and nationally, different leagues. All of them form a single system, same rules and people follow games in Saharan villages, London, Beer Sheva, Tehran, Beijing, EVERYWHERE. You visit a country, and a polite taxi driver will tell you “Ah, you are from XX (not a very good soccer country), 23 years ago you had an amazing goal keeper, (valiant effort to pronounce the name)!”
The threat to suspend Israeli teams from international competition is at par with suspension of all American aid to Israel, more so because it is credible. FIFPro and FIFA represent very narrow interests, to be sure, but once they adopt a position, they cannot very easily manipulated or dismissed.