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| Self righteous brits on jews (marked up, cleaned up) by Chicago 07/16/2006, 3:49am PDT | ||||
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a smarmy BBC hire fresh out of Journalism 101 wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5181628.stm Because the hamas are subsistence farmers, caught in the middle, who can only fashion pitiable weapons out of scrap metal beaten from plowshares. The Qassams mostly needle the Israelis, like pinpricks in the ankles of a giant, taunting him to stamp back with his big, US-issue army boots. Did you catch that reference? That the united states backs israel? For many Palestinians, there is proof at last that the state which has taken 78% of what they regard as their land since the foundation of Israel in 1948 - and every day seems to take a little more - can actually be beaten. "of what they regard as". See, lil old reporter me just reports on-the-ground everyman perceptions. _I_ sure as hell don't believe the jews stole seventy freaking eight percent of the palestinian's land. Big number, that 78. Two other large numbers neo-anti-semites love to throw around are 1948 and 1967. Gamers know those two numbers as the subject of several excellent PC wargames where the jews kick new holes in arab torsos. Jews know those two numbers as two out of six-and-counting instances when existence of their race was hours away from being extinguished. The giant is kicking out, then landing punch after punch on long-suffering Lebanon. It's so unfair. Won't someone make them stop? Tunnels and fences have been erected by the occupier to keep Palestinians away from Israeli roads, Israeli settlements and Israeli soldiers. That 'occupier' just rolls right off the tongue. "Only violence pays," has been the lesson often taught both by Israel, and by the many militant groups who oppose her in the Middle East. I can't believe american english evolved out of the shit soup that is british writing and humor. When I started listening to NPR I thought all its analogies and witticisms were just cute shoutouts to brit humor...until I realized that one five-year-old writes all their copy. One five y.o. who thinks extended analogies are clever. In the last village before the highway, oblivious to the danger of rockets, a young man pushes a cart loaded to the sky with white eggs. Because jews would rather kill you than make sure the hezbollah IHOP has its daily egg shipments. Perhaps the israelis don't realize those eggs are molded plastic explosives, painted white. The details are not committed to text, but that innocent oblivious boy, perhaps a hamas informant, lives in a village of mud huts, daily gazing with starved eyes across the border at the greedy jewish suburbanites, whose merest of taxes easily affords tanks for its stomping western army. Notice the sidebar, summarizing the entire mideast conflict in 7 blurbs, including this one: 1996: Israel launches "Grapes of Wrath" raids on Hezbollah; 100 civilians die under Israeli shelling of UN base at Qana Oh shit, the jews _shelled_ a united nations base? Even wikipedia has a good explanation for that one. wikipedia > BBC FTW. By Nick Thorpe His byline portrait looks like someone slapped a wig on the Half-Life G-Man. |
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Self righteous brits on jews by 07/16/2006, 1:33am PDT  I recommend links and quote tags. NT by 07/16/2006, 3:16am PDT Self righteous brits on jews (marked up, cleaned up) by 07/16/2006, 3:49am PDT Hey that's better. NT by 07/16/2006, 5:55am PDT |
