A Post by Brian of London
The New York Times has, finally, figured out how to respond to the scenes of abject and desperate non-poverty in Gaza as Dave has ably documented and discussed (a Taste of “Concentration Camp” Gaza series and Gaza mall posts, for example).
So they’ve switched tack… it’s all about humiliation. It reads like a PR piece written by a foreign lobbyist firm. I thought you needed a license in the US to be a foreign lobbyist?
The despair here is not that of Haiti or Somalia. It is a misery of dependence, immobility and hopelessness, not of grinding want.
First you told us that the Gazan’s were starving and dying of malnutrition so we showed you pictures of overflowing markets and the detailed cargo manifests of food and supplies paid for and sent into Gaza by the Zionist Entity. We also challenged you to come up with one documented death from malnutrition.
You looked at the ground and shuffled your feet.
So you switched to whining that there isn’t enough electricity to go round. Again we pointed out that despite billions of euros, dollars and even Zionist Shekels flowing to the PA they’d rather not build any new power generating facilities for their populations and Hamas would rather not pay their electricity bills to the PA.
Oh, look, a pretty kitty cat!
All right then what about the embargoed building material? Yes, yes, they don’t let pipes and concrete into the Strip, those evil Zionists. So we patiently sent out the pictures of the newly opened swimming pool and shopping mall. We know the mall isn’t the Mall of America, but it is there and so is the nice new swimming pool.
What’s that you say?
Now its not about the real suffering, obviously its not so bad in Gaza, not like in Haiti or Somalia (how many column inches have those had in the last month?). No it’s about the mental suffering inflicted on the Gazans. Hey NYT WHAT ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN IN SDEROT? PATHETIC.
Hurry up and go out of business already or sign the forms and admit you’re a paid foreign lobbyist.
