Comments on: The AP’s moral equivalency problem http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/09/5077 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/09/5077/comment-page-1#comment-32617 Meryl Yourish Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:22:38 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5077#comment-32617 Hi, Richard. Thanks for coming over here. You're reading a preview of next week's podcast. I called dibs on Buchanan. Hi, Richard. Thanks for coming over here.

You’re reading a preview of next week’s podcast. I called dibs on Buchanan.

]]> By: Richard http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/09/5077/comment-page-1#comment-32615 Richard Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:58:33 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5077#comment-32615 Hi Meryl! Greetings from a Shire Network News listener! To complete the thought, the other side is the impersonal Israel presented to the reader: "Israel closed"... So we have a human face and a "soviet" style state denied a voice yet given words. In other words, as you said, dehumanising Israel. The other problem with these articles is something that Richard Landes has pointed out, which is that these are either written by Arabs (and their sympathies would lay where?) or by western journalists, using PalArab stringers and conforming to the unofficial rules of the game. As one British journalist put it when asked about the Sharon cartoons: "Jews don't issue fatwas." A combination of contempt reinforced with fear of the other side. Yay! Let's throw the Jews to the wolves and hope they don't eat us! (Written by a secular, non-jewish Briton!) Hi Meryl! Greetings from a Shire Network News listener!
To complete the thought, the other side is the impersonal Israel presented to the reader: “Israel closed”…
So we have a human face and a “soviet” style state denied a voice yet given words. In other words, as you said, dehumanising Israel.
The other problem with these articles is something that Richard Landes has pointed out, which is that these are either written by Arabs (and their sympathies would lay where?) or by western journalists, using PalArab stringers and conforming to the unofficial rules of the game.
As one British journalist put it when asked about the Sharon cartoons: “Jews don’t issue fatwas.” A combination of contempt reinforced with fear of the other side. Yay! Let’s throw the Jews to the wolves and hope they don’t eat us!
(Written by a secular, non-jewish Briton!)

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