A festival of your racism

I almost did not want to blog today.  I was too disgusted by the blatantly racist Western media coverage of the prisoners' swap deal: and I am not talking about the typically racist New York Times, but even the French and British media.  It was all about that one Israeli terrorist in Palestinian custody.  The racism was everywhere: it was impossible to present Palestinians as humans. We are never victims.  Just terrorist: our grandparents are terrorists (an 80 year old was being released today), our parents are terrorists, we are terrorists, our children are terrorists, and our unborn will be terrorists.  The festival of Western racism coincided with the 50th anniversary of French police massacre of 300 Algerian anti-war demonstrators.  It was a fitting anniversary for those partaking in the festival of Western racism.  Look how many articles appeared that spoke of "bereaved" Israeli families: as if Israeli terrorist soldiers don't kill far more of the civilians of the other side than any accused Arab terrorist.  There is not even a comparison, without even have to go back to the origins of the conflict and the sole criminal and terrorist responsibility of the Zionist movement.  Look at the typical racist, anti-Arab newspaper, the New York Times: it has two pictures in today's hard copy about the prisoners' release: one showing a frowning Hamas man with a gun, and the other showing Israeli children playing.  Who needs words when you can use images to make the point about the humaneness of one side and the backwardness of the other side: the message is that the blood of the other side is spillable.  That was the point and language of Netanyahu today when he spoke about "blood on their head".  Call this deal what you want in your racist media which does not even try to feign objectivity anymore, I will call it by the names of every one of our prisoners.