Monday, July 25, 2011

Israel: This sick glee in the face of a terrorist attack

Many Israelis find “educational” value in horrifying attacks, as long as they happen to others…
Patrick Mac Manus
Following the terrorist attack in Norway, before the Israeli media had to reluctantly admit it was actually carried out by a Norwegian neo-Nazi, the media, aside from Haaretz, kept its readers in the dark about the killers’ pro-Israeli agenda, the comment section on the internet sites was filled not with expressions of horror and sadness, but with virulent attacks on Muslims and Islam, and a strange and awful sort of glee. Even when it turned out that the killer was, in fact, Anders Breivik, many of the readers commenting on Israeli websites justified his act.

It is not, in fact, at all surprising that a neo-Nazi would support Israel. The extreme European right loves Israel, often describing it – as did Breivik (and, for that matter, founder of Zionism Theodore Herzl) – as a bastion of the West in the lands of Islam. Under Lieberman, the Foreign Ministry has began making contacts with extreme right wing parties; the latest example being the meeting between an Israeli deputy minister, Ayoub Qara, and representatives of the Austrian Freedom Party formerly led by Jorg Haider. While Haider was alive, his party was described as a “Neo-Nazi” party by Israeli officials. Well, turns out lepers can’t be choosers, and Israel needs every friend it can get. I mean, Israel was South Africa’s best friend during Apartheid; we’re used to that.
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6 comments:

  1. thankgodimatheistJuly 25, 2011 at 7:44 PM

    <span>"The fact that many people could identify with a mass murderer of children spotlights another problem, one rarely mentioned: The de-humanizing effects of Jewish Orthodox education, which most Israeli Jews receive in one form or another. Being taught from an early age that you belong to a master race, and that other people are inherently inferior, that their lives aren’t worth as much as yours will take its mark..."</span>

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  2. buhJuly 26, 2011 at 8:26 AM

    I was gone over the weekend, but heard that Murdoch wackos, includung the Wall St. Journal, had indicated an Islamic person as the shooter.  Does anyone know if know if retractions and/or apologies were given?

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  3. thankgodimatheistJuly 26, 2011 at 4:44 PM

    <span>Hi Buh..I saw a post on Mondoweiss in regards to this issue and that I'll try to link to. Few minutes.</span>

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  4. thankgodimatheistJuly 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM

    The tabloid The Sun published it and never apologised:

    http://mondoweiss.net/2011/07/scourge-of-the-west-murdoch-sheet-shifts-its-bogeyman.html

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  5. buhJuly 26, 2011 at 11:32 PM

    Thanks, TGIA.

    Amy Goodman had Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now today.  They were talking about how coverage dropped significantly after it was clear that Muslims didn't do it.

    They probably didn't give the Gabby Giffords shooting any more coverage than they had to either, being done by a right-leaning disturbed individual, after all.

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  6. thankgodimatheistJuly 27, 2011 at 12:53 AM

    Thanks Buh..Good point. One would expect them to lose interest when it's discovered that it wasn't a "jihadi" but a bit closer to home grown folk; a far right/Neo Nazi/Zionist amalgamation of a fundamentalist. Isn't he just a "crazy", "lunatic" or "insane" individual?

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