Sunday, November 08, 2009

Howard Schnider: when you are racist and you don't notice

Look at what Schnider of the Washington Post says here: "The security situation there stands in sharp contrast with that of the Gaza Strip, where the ruling Islamist Hamas movement and other militant organizations have launched thousands of rockets in recent years at southern Israeli towns, helping trigger an intense three-week war with Israel in the winter." By weird logic, Schnider defines security of the West Bank and Gaza as the security of the Israelis and whether it is endangered from groups in the West Bank and Gaza. So according to him, Gaza can be bombed from the air, sea, and land, and can suffer from a savage economic strangulation, but if the people of Gaza don't attack (back) Israel, then there would be security in Gaza. They really don't notice when they are being racist in their articles. They don't notice that they are clear and blatant in how they treat two peoples differently: as one that is superior and deserves security, and another that is inferior and only deserves to be nice and kind to the superior stock of humans. And do you notice that Schnider turns to an Israeli to determine what is in the interest of the Palestinians? ""It's definitely an Israeli interest, as it is an American, Western, Palestinian one, that there be a moderate and pragmatic Palestinian leadership," Israel's deputy foreign minister, Daniel Ayalon, told the Associated Press." Can you imagine Schnider turning to a Palestinian to comment on leadership change in Israel? And do you notice in this long article by Schnider, every person quoted is an Israeli when the article deals with leadership of the Palestinians? Does Schnider notice that he writes about Palestinians the way white supremacist journalists used to write about blacks in 19th century US?