If you followed the release of the Arab prisoners and the Israeli occupation terrorist in the Arab social media yesterday, you would have felt that you inhabited a world that is different from the world that we inhabit in the West. People were outraged at the Western (and some Arab) media obsession with that one Israeli occupation terrorist. Many commented (rightly) that people should see Israeli soldiers as they are: and not as they appear in Mossad heroic propaganda movies. Many commented how dumb he seemed. People were furious at the Egyptian journalist who interviewed him (notice that the New York Times only commented on Israeli reaction and devoted one whole article to Israeli public reactions to the interview while it did not bother to even address Arab public reactions to the same interview*): they were furious because she seemed too polite with him and even congratulated him on his release and acted as if he was some tourist who innocently wandered off in our lands and got lost. They were so many tweets making fun of him and of his name and to the attention to him. Many paid tribute to various Palestinian prisoners released. I listened to a BBC report yesterday: they are reminding me of US media lately. They reported as if all released prisoners were Hamas members, while many were Fath (around 50) and others belonged to PFLP and DFLP and some independent.
*Ethan Bronner did make a passing reference. Since he cant speak or understand Arabic, he said that he read an English language comment by a reader on the Facebook group of Egyptian TV. That what I call specialized journalism.
*Ethan Bronner did make a passing reference. Since he cant speak or understand Arabic, he said that he read an English language comment by a reader on the Facebook group of Egyptian TV. That what I call specialized journalism.
