Earlier today I asked for help to find a dismaying reference to Gaza on NPR yesterday morning. Susie Kneedler responded. She confirmed the quote I thought I'd heard, and had this to say:
I found the Renee Montagne clip and, with it, the barbarous heartlessness of both her false "summary" and Don Gonyea's ridiculous "story" that missed everything that mattered. Montagne:
"In the last days before Pres. Obama took office, Israel's military was striking targets in Gaza. The shooting stopped just in time for the inauguration, but nobody expected the challenge of Middle East peace to go away. The issue returned to the headlines this week. The new American President met Israel's new Prime Minister, and it was a moment for Pres. Obama to downplay his differences with Binyamin Netanyahu."
Montagne portrays all as a matter of destiny, fated to happen, and neglects any mention of Palestinian people, their torment by Israeli goverment policy, or their heroism under it. No mention about how Israel and Netan. won't permit rebuilding in Gaza, or even Obama's line about the dearth of clean water.
Among many other sickening moments in the Gonyea "mis-report" is this curiously amorphous ending:
"Next week, Obama will meet with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the White House. Days later, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be in Washington."
Why doesn't he say that he's meeting with Pres. Obama?
