Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Why the Media Focuses on One Rabbi's Comments

The Main Stream Media have been up in arms that a rabbi asked God to strike down the 'evil haters of Israel with a plague'. In the context of Middle East rhetoric it is almost unnoticeable. He seems to be asking God to kill his enemies, the people who are trying to kill him before they succeed. His words are being taken as coming fairly close to calling for a genocide of all Palestinians, though it is not clear to me that is what he meant. Still, lets assume that was what he was actually calling for. Would it be a 'bad or wrong' comment; of course. Calling for the genocide of all Palestinians is just as bad as calling for the genocide of any other group. Much worse is said by many more much more frequently on the other side. Why then focus so heavily on the rabbi; because it is news. News tends to be something different. You would not expect to see a breaking news story that the sun and moon are still there. Similarly, it barley makes the news when another Middle Eastern figure calls for the death of all Jews. On the contrary, a Jew calling for the death of all Palestinians makes the news because of the rarity. While the focus may be meant to cast Israel in a negative light again, when you scratch the surface they have proved the opposite.

That all said, I do think it should be news when another person calls for the death of all Jews. Those people (the people with that ideology) need to be exposed, scrutinized, and if necessary dealt with to make sure they can never carry out their genocidal plans. That goes for any genocidal maniacs; Jew targeting or otherwise.

http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/09/06/why-were-one-rabbis-unrepresentative-remarks-worth-reporting-by-the-msm-you-know-why

"“Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this earth,” said Rabbi Yosef, head of the Israeli Shas party. “God should strike them and these Palestinians — evil haters of Israel — with a plague,” he added. Naturally, the Palestinians are outraged and Reuters, the Associated Press, and other news outlets played the story for all it was worth.
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But why is this a major story? Compared to the constant stream of hate-mongering, murderous blabber, and TV shows for kids extolling the virtues of killing Jews that emerges from Hamas and the Palestinians themselves, this little comment by Rabbi Yosef is tame by comparison. After all, Yosef hoped that God would do the smiting. The Palestinians want their own children to start the next Holocaust.
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First of all the media is anti-Israeli and loves to gin up hatred for the state of Israel. These same “reporters” have ignored the daily talk of genocide from Palestinians for decades but up speaks Rabbi Yosef and it’s a case that needs to be taken to the World Court!

But the second reason actually is one that stands as proof of how civilized and democratic Israel is. Rabbi Yosef’s comments are very unusual for Israel. When an Israeli makes a comment such as his official it is big news because it is so infrequent.
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