I wonder why Uri Avnery (Translated artice in Dagens Nyheter) and Gideon Levy (Translated artice in Svenska Dagbladet) are the most hailed Israeli journalists in Sweden. Or, as a matter of fact I know why already. They say exactly what the Swede wants to hear.
- Israel is solely responsible for everything, while on the boats there were merely innocent peace activists. Hep!
- As soon as the siege over Gaza is lifted, the Mideast will turn into a Garden of Eden. Hep!
It does not matter how much I actually do agree with their factual criticism of the Israeli method of operating, but I still consider their biased approach a mock on the complexity of the Mideast situation. And as far as the Swedes are concerned, they search for information where they know that they will find what they want to hear. Unfortunately it will keep them from lifting their vision from the blame game. How can we use that constructively? We cannot.
I do not suggest that you avoid reading them. They do provide just criticism, but unless you find some appropriate complementation, you will find yourself intellectually malnutritioned.
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Was it a coincidence that you use the expression Hep? That was the rallying cry for medevial anti-Jewish rioters during the central European Hep Hep pogroms. Hierusalem Est Perdita. jerusalem is lost.
Except it's not.
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