The NPR story begins referring to an "international controversy" about the Israeli raid on the Freedom Flotilla last Monday. You see, there is no controversy here in the United States, we all support the raid? That is the consensus that NPR and significant sectors of our society want to maintain: blind, uncritical support and bankrolling for the very aggressive state of Israel. In fact, Israel occupies Syrian land and has a history of invading Lebanon, bombing Iraq and even the USS Liberty.
So what is NPR's big news story from the recent efforts to break the siege of Gaza? NPR concludes that a "spotlight" must be shone on IHH, a humanitarian organization that we are going to be made very paranoid about. Funny, that is the same campaign IDF and Israel are doing! Coincidence maybe?
The participants from scores of other groups are completely ignored. Freedom flotilla participants come from forty nations but NPR takes on Israel's campaign against Turkey. NPR doesn't quite demonize Turkey but that sees to be the direction in which Israel is headed.
Hamas is already wearing the American/Israeli made label of "terrorist". It is interesting, is that all we do in the US now, sell fraudulent investments and label anyone we disagree a terrorist, THEN RUN LIKE HELL FROM THE FACTS? A lot of this Morning Edition story embraces this labeling of Hamas a terrorist without any examination or thought. Why are they labeled terrorists and why are we always ill informed about the views of these so-called terrorists? In this case eight unarmed civilians were each shot in the head four times each, yet their corpses are labeled "terrorist corpses" while the IDF killers magically become the victims.
It seems that the label "terrorist" allows powerful interests to spread self-serving lies and disinformation while shutting off reliable and accurate information. This is just the opposite of what a journalistic enterprise should be doing.
Well, NPR did its best to make us suspicious about IHH and the evil humanitarians trying to harm Israel by breaking the siege of Gaza. They are good for that!
Does NPR support the siege of Gaza? Why is there no "spotlight" on the UN resolution to end the siege of Gaza? Why no "spotlight" on the property stolen from hundreds of Freedom Flotilla passengers, why no "spotlight" on the ships confiscated. Why no "spotlight" on the issue of Israeli piracy versus Somali piracy. Why no compassion for the 1.6 million people of Gaza? The siege and sovereignty of the Palestinians are always ignored. Why don't you send reporters there you. ass sitters?
Why no spotlight on the seizure of the ship Rachel Corrie? There was a Nobel price winner on board and Dennis Halliday on that ship! That is amazing! Former Iraq weapons inspector Dennis Halliday used to be allowed on NPR but now he doesn't uncritically support Israeli behavior and American invasions. I guess you don't let people like that on your show let alone cover them, no "spotlight" for reality. NPR, THE ZIONIST SPOTLIGHT.
Why no "spotlight" on the 60 journalists who were treated like crap and had their materials confiscated by the IDF so they could not report? Why no focus on the sophisticated hit list booklet seen by passengers in the Freedom Flotilla? Can there be any question that NPR is a bastion of the Zionist consensus in American ruling circles? NPR has always been a mechanism for the distribution of ruling class ideas and since the fifties our ruling class has become a largely Zionist one. Then there could have been a spotlight on the special munition removed from one victim of the IDF, unseen before by Turkish forensics, a special bullet concocted by whom?
At the end of the day NPR's "spotlight" is often directed by Zionist ideology, not the facts, not by newsworthiness and not by journalistic excellence.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
THE HOLOCAUST, GAZA AND NPR
Today we had another NPR story about the Jewish holocaust. It was really about the current Pope trying to deify another Pope, or whatever they call it, it is a form of quasi deification. So Pope Benedict the whatever wants to do something to celebrate Hitler's Pope, Pope Pius the Last One.
The Pope to be deified apparently was a bit of a Nazi collaborator. Of course the current Pope was a member of the Hitler Youth, which, of course, couldn't have anything to do with his desire to deify Hitler's Pope. It was a reasonable story in and of itself but why do we hear so much about the Jewish Holocaust seventy years ago and so little about the ongoing holocaust in Israel as Israel imprisons, shoots, bombs and starves the Palestinians?
As Hitlerphiles and contributors to the Holocaust these Popes are not really so holy to anyone with a brain. They both seem to have had something to do with it and this Benedict, well he is ready to forgive himself and the other Pope and to imagine that God is on his side, like all the other religious deviants.
At one point the NPR reader said something about how Jewish people have criticized the Pope. It was said as if the opinions of Jews matter. I think they do but, I wish the NPR staff would say such things about say, the Palestinian people when representing their opinions, as if the Palestinians mattered.
Didn't hear anything about GAZA today on NPR. Indeed, I hardly ever do. Of course the tables are now changed and now, as I write the Palestinians have been held in concentration camp like conditions in Gaza the West Bank and in refugee camps. The Palestinians are being killed and enslaved now. How can this be less newsworthy than the death of folks seventy years ago. The obvious answer is that it isn't.
This time Jews and Israelis rather than Christians and Germans are the bad guys. Is that why NPR can't cover or criticize Israel appropriately. Somehow, NPR never thinks that this ongoing tragedy imposed by the Jewish State seems to be as newsworthy as the Holocaust and those who collaborated with them and indeed were them.
Go figure. National Holocaust Radio? Does such an Israelcentric perspective really serve the interests of justice? I don't think so.
NPR has had little or nothing to say about the Goldstone Report. Nor have we heard about the charges being filed against Israeli leaders in different venues around the world. All the Palestine solidarity efforts, big news throughout the rest of the world, has been completely whited out in favor of human interest stories about the hardships of Israelis, one of the most privileged populations on Earth.
Of course this is all U.S. government policy and NPR has always been in bed with our government, uncritical from the start, when it passively watched Nixon arrest thousands of antiwar demonstrators, to today as it acts as the mouthpiece of the State Department and the Zionist lobby.
The Israelis and Egyptians get to read about all these issues and hear about it on the radio and watch it on TV but the American people are not allowed to see what NPR doesn't consider as important as something that happened seventy years ago.
The Pope to be deified apparently was a bit of a Nazi collaborator. Of course the current Pope was a member of the Hitler Youth, which, of course, couldn't have anything to do with his desire to deify Hitler's Pope. It was a reasonable story in and of itself but why do we hear so much about the Jewish Holocaust seventy years ago and so little about the ongoing holocaust in Israel as Israel imprisons, shoots, bombs and starves the Palestinians?
As Hitlerphiles and contributors to the Holocaust these Popes are not really so holy to anyone with a brain. They both seem to have had something to do with it and this Benedict, well he is ready to forgive himself and the other Pope and to imagine that God is on his side, like all the other religious deviants.
At one point the NPR reader said something about how Jewish people have criticized the Pope. It was said as if the opinions of Jews matter. I think they do but, I wish the NPR staff would say such things about say, the Palestinian people when representing their opinions, as if the Palestinians mattered.
Didn't hear anything about GAZA today on NPR. Indeed, I hardly ever do. Of course the tables are now changed and now, as I write the Palestinians have been held in concentration camp like conditions in Gaza the West Bank and in refugee camps. The Palestinians are being killed and enslaved now. How can this be less newsworthy than the death of folks seventy years ago. The obvious answer is that it isn't.
This time Jews and Israelis rather than Christians and Germans are the bad guys. Is that why NPR can't cover or criticize Israel appropriately. Somehow, NPR never thinks that this ongoing tragedy imposed by the Jewish State seems to be as newsworthy as the Holocaust and those who collaborated with them and indeed were them.
Go figure. National Holocaust Radio? Does such an Israelcentric perspective really serve the interests of justice? I don't think so.
NPR has had little or nothing to say about the Goldstone Report. Nor have we heard about the charges being filed against Israeli leaders in different venues around the world. All the Palestine solidarity efforts, big news throughout the rest of the world, has been completely whited out in favor of human interest stories about the hardships of Israelis, one of the most privileged populations on Earth.
Of course this is all U.S. government policy and NPR has always been in bed with our government, uncritical from the start, when it passively watched Nixon arrest thousands of antiwar demonstrators, to today as it acts as the mouthpiece of the State Department and the Zionist lobby.
The Israelis and Egyptians get to read about all these issues and hear about it on the radio and watch it on TV but the American people are not allowed to see what NPR doesn't consider as important as something that happened seventy years ago.
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