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投稿者 米国メディアのシオニスト宣伝体制に怒りの内部批判 日時 2000 年 10 月 15 日 03:23:04:
イスラエルの強盗行為を賛美的に宣伝する
腰巾着の米国マスコミに内部批判が噴出
●エルサレムでインティファーダの爆発的高揚が起きて以来、
実は私がROMっている海外の陰謀系ニュースのMLでも、パレ
スチナ支持の読者とシオニスト読者との激しい論争が起きて
いました。
●ユダヤ人といっても、考え方はさまざまでしょうから一括りに
するわけにはいかないと、私は考えています。 極端な話、1930
年代までの欧州には、ユダヤ人社会のなかにシオニストと同化
主義者の２つの流れがあり、シオニストは中東にユダヤ国家を
樹立するためにナチスの反ユダヤ政策を黙認どころか部分的に
は支援までして、同化主義者の同胞へのナチスによる弾圧を強化
させて、非妥協的な同化主義者を“自分の手を汚さずに”処分し、
同化主義を容認していた多数派をシオニズムに巻き込み、さらに
欧州全体を加害者に仕立てることで――実際ドイツ以外の国々
だってユダヤ人差別を行なっていたのですから「加害者」には違い
ないが――シオニズムの目標成就を加速させたのでした。
このように、現代史はシオニスト勢力に味方しているように見え
るが、シオニストの説教強盗を快く思わないユダヤ人も、また多い
ようです。
●ノーマン・ソロモンというジャーナリストも、その名に偽りがなけ
ればユダヤ系の可能性が高いわけですが、彼が米国のシオニズ
ム賛美の偏向マスコミ体制を強烈に批判しています。
●以下は、やはり陰謀系ニュースサイトである「The Konformist」
による、その前口上と、ソロモン氏の記事です。
（このところ英文をそのまま出すことが多くてごめんなさい。でも、
本当に自力で情勢を知ろうという意欲があるなら、がんばって英
語を読めるように自力更正すべきだと思います。 辞書はまめに引
くこと。単語は、語源から意味に応じてさまざまに派生しているので、
語源の意味と「接頭辞」「語幹」「接尾辞」を意識しながら読むよう
にすれば、早く覚えられます。ちなみに翻訳者の世界では、「何は
なくともリーダーズ」というくらい、研究社リーダーズ英和中辞典の
人気が高いのですが、それは26万語という収録語数の多さもさる
ことながら、語源からどう派生したかの言葉の由来の説明が、簡単
ながらしっかり付いているからだと、私はひそかに考えています。）
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Robert Sterling
Editor, The Konformist
http://www.konformist.com
This is one of the most important things Norman Solomon has written in a
while. Last count I saw (before the Israeli's bombed the Palestinian
headquarters, which they then tried to brashly deny was an act of war) the
death toll was 90 Palestinians and Arabs to 7 Jews. I suppose this statistic
hasn't become common knowledge because, if people knew it, they'd perhaps get
confused and mistake Israel for a vicious, bloodthirsty Middle Eastern State
led by a cruel power-mad gang of thugs.
Why are the Palestinians rioting? Hmmm, let's think about this. Think how
US metropolitan police forces treat African-Americans and other minorities.
Now times that by ten. That's the level of hatred and contempt that the
average Israeli soldier and policeman feels for Palestinians.
Criticism of Israel is no more anti-Semitic than criticism of the Vatican is
anti-Catholic. I have no problem with anyone being part of any religion, but
it's another thing if they let their fairy tales cloud themselves from seeing
mass murder before their eyes.
I hope any person who is Jewish feels shame and disgust for what Israel is
doing right now, engaged in mass killings and exploiting legitimate
sensitivities as a shield for deserved criticism.
A common saying among those who discuss the Nazi Holocaust is "Never forget."
There is no question Israel is guilty of war crimes and genocide this past
month. It appears Israel interprets the mantra as that they should never
forget so they can utilize the Nazi techniques on others. If that's the
case, I'd say their mission is accomplished.
Robert Sterling
Editor, The Konformist
http://www.konformist.com
*****
Media Spin and t
he Israeli Occupation
10/13/00
mediabeat@igc.org
MEDIA SPIN REMAINS IN SYNC WITH ISRAELI OCCUPATION
By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate
The formula for American media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace
process." Depict U.S. officials as honest brokers in the negotiations.
Emphasize the need for restraint and compromise instead of instability and
bloodshed.
In the world according to news media, the U.S. government is
situated on high moral ground -- in contrast to some of the intractable
adversaries. "The conflict that had been so elaborately dressed in the
civilizing cloak of a peace effort has been stripped to its barest essence:
Jew against Arab, Arab against Jew," a New York Times dispatch from
Jerusalem declared as fierce clashes in occupied territory neared the end
of their second week.
Soon afterwards, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright proclaimed:
"The cycle of violence has to be stopped." Such pronouncements from
Washington get a lot of respectful media play in our country.
Rarely do American journalists explore the ample reasons to
believe that the United States is part of the oft-decried cycle of
violence. Nor, in the past couple of weeks, has there been much media
analysis of the fact that the violence was overwhelmingly inflicted on
Palestinian people.
Within days, several dozen Palestinians were killed by heavily
armed men in uniform -- often described by CNN and other news outlets as
"Israeli security forces." Under the circumstances, it's a notably
benign-sounding term for an army that shoots down protesters.
As for the rock-throwing Palestinians, I have never seen or heard
a single American news account describing them as "pro-democracy
demonstrators." Yet that would be an appropriate way to refer to people who
-- after more than three decades of living under occupation -- are in the
streets to demand self-determination.
While Israeli soldiers and police, with their vastly superior
firepower, do most of the killing, Israel's public-relations engines keep
whirling like well-oiled tops. Days ago, tilted by the usual spin, American
news stories highlighted the specious ultimatums issued by Prime Minister
Ehud Barak as he demanded that Palestinians end the violence -- while
uniformed Israelis under his authority continued to kill them.
Beneath the Israeli "peace process" rhetoric echoed by American
media, an implicit message isn't hard to discern: If only Palestinians
would stop resisting the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, it would no
longer be necessary for Israeli forces to shoot them.
"Israel Extends Time For Peace," said the lead headline on the
Oct. 10 front pag
e of USA Today. "Israel early today extended a deadline
for Palestinians to end rioting," the article began. At this rate, we may
someday see a headline that reads: "Israel Demands Palestinians Stop
Attacking Bullets With Their Bodies."
Of course, amid all the nifty Orwellian touches, the proper
behavior of people whose homeland remains under occupation has never quite
been spelled out. But U.S. media coverage has reflexively mimicked the
themes coming out of the White House and State Department. It all makes
sense -- as long as we set aside basic concepts of human rights -- as long
as we refuse to acknowledge that without justice there can be no real peace.
For American journalists on mainstream career ladders, it's
prudent to avoid making a big deal about Israel's human rights violations,
which persist without letup in tandem with Israel's occupation of land it
captured in the 1967 war. Many pundits are fond of cloaking the occupiers
in mantles of righteousness. And we hear few questions raised about the
fact that the occupiers enjoy the powerful backing of the United States.
The silence is usually deafening, even among journalists who write
opinion columns on a regular basis. The U.S. government's economic and
military assistance to Israel adds up to a few billion dollars per year.
Among media professionals, that aid is widely seen as an untouchable "third
rail." To challenge U.S. support for Israel is to invite a torrent of
denunciations -- first and foremost, the accusation of "anti-Semitism."
Occasionally, I've written columns criticizing U.S. media for
strong pro-Israel bias in news reporting and spectrums of commentary. Every
time, I can count on a flurry of angry letters that accuse me of being
anti-Semitic. It's a timeworn, knee-jerk tactic: Whenever someone makes a
coherent critique of Israel's policies, immediately go on the attack with
charges of anti-Jewish bigotry.
Numerous American supporters of Israel resort to this tactic.
Perhaps the difficulties of defending the Israeli occupation on its merits
have encouraged substitution of the "anti-Semitic" epithet for reasoned
debate.
Like quite a few other Jewish Americans, I'm appalled by what
Israel is doing with U.S. tax dollars. Meanwhile, as journalists go along
to get along, they diminish the humanity of us all.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls."
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Norman Solomon is a syndicated columnist. His latest book is "The Habits of
Highly Deceptive Media."
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