Comments on: Hamas Run Gaza; We Can Thank Ourselves

By: Folaan

Folaan — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:02 +0000

Guy: you are like a Nazi who complains about one-sided coverage.

do you really think a colonialist ethnic cleanser like the Zionists and the genocidal imperialists like the Americans do believe in 2-sided, fair, and balanced coverage? haven’t you heard about the scandal where Iraqi and Afghani and Palestinian Fatah and Lebanese reporters got paid by the Americans to write articles in favor of USA and to vilify the resistance?

Sabbah has done a super job of trying to correct massive bias using his limited resources and times.

By: Tariq

Tariq — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:11:39 +0000

Sabbah – your blog is great,man! As for ‘Guy’: I like this ‘one-sidedness’ argument, because its an example of real nonsense, and it never stands in any discussion.

Did you ever notice that Palestinians rarely ever use this word? Do we blame Israelis for being ‘one-sided’? Rarely, indeed. Now stop and wonder why.

This is not a ‘conflict between two parties’, Guy. There is a settler-colonialist state illegally occupying the land of the people who are indigenous to that land. And this is why only a perpetrator, or someone who sympathizes with the perpetrator, will talk about ‘one-sidedness’.

To the victim of any crime, ‘one-sidedness’ is nonsense that is never even considered – he knows its not just some fight, but that he was attacked out of the blue. For the criminal however, who knows his crime risks being unmasked, and who has to talk himself out of it, ‘one-sidedness’is one of the first arguments on his lips – because he is trying to defend something that in principle, cannot be defended. This is why he never wants to talk about the crime itself, but about any peripheral nonsense that has nothing to do with it, like ‘onesidedness’.

And this is exactly Israel’s problem. Look at all the discussions anywhere. Palestinians try to pull the discourse to the core events, the crime, the dispossesion, the occupation – Israelis try to make sure the discussion is about details and peripheral arguments as much as possible.

In court, this phenomenon usually is a great help in defining who is perpetrator, and who is victim. Too bad there is no court with any power to drag Israel in front of … that would be the easiest case to win.

By: Noah Barbar

Noah Barbar — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:11:32 +0000

to respond to Guy, first, Sabbah is adressing a deficit in coverage. There is already an avalanche of biased, hateful, racist anti-Palestinian reporting. Sabbah has taken it upon himself to provide an alternative voice that is missing from the mainstream media. So what he is doing is fair and right on the money. When Your hateful jewish and zionist media starts to cover the conflict fairly and accurately, then Sabbah and Co. can rest. So Haitham, keep it. You are a true soldier for truth. As for you Guy, when you learn introspection, you will be the first to notice how your bias and hate compelled good folks like Haitham to take corrective measures.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:28:10 +0000

Guy, DUHHH! it’s not like there is no decades of zionist occupation, killings, and brutality that generations of Palestinians have been subjected to. if violent video games and violent movies can influence people, imagine watching your loved ones killed and maimed and your property stolen because you are not jewish. do you think this is a healthy environment for anyone to grow up in?

By: nadia

nadia — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:49:30 +0000

the header for that website is so funny: “Promoting Middle East Peace–For Israel and the United States.”

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:12:33 +0000

You know what I like about your blog? That no matter what happens, Israelis are always to blame. It is always about them being bad, and about zero amount of introspection. Palestinians are always just a victim.
One day you’ll realize this style of one-sided writing is a weakness, not a strength.

By: Carsten Agger

Carsten Agger — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:33:58 +0000

Just an aside:

If you start a blog post like that, the immediate impression is that the text is you writing, not a quote – it’s a bit confusing that I actually have to click the link (which I assumed would lead to an article by you/Haitham on Global Voices or some such thing) to find out it’s a quote.

br
Carsten

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:01:14 +0000

never forget the systematic, sustained ghettoizing and isolation of Gaza that started, with the world’s silence, when the secular Fatah regime abandoned its responsibility to its people and instead ran amok with corruption, leaving the Palestinian underclass to fend for themselves. Hamas IS the underdogs IS the underclass IS the downtrodden IS the oppressed IS the vengeful class . What happened in Gaza is not religious, it’s class conflict, pure and simple. The utterly corrupt gangsters of Fatah and vs. the ruthless vengeance of the Palestinian underclasses. 40 years ago, this could have been a communist quo by the same people, and the same beards, but praying to a different icon. This is not to give Hamas excuses, this is to at least understdn what just happened and hope never to repeat it. THe emergency government has the potential to win hesrts and minds, if rotten Fatah icons are removed from the scene, such as the Thugs Of Geneva, who drove nationalists and leftists away from Fatah in droves when they openly called for the liquidation of the right of return. No matter how much tranquilizers the EU and USA pump into the dying body of the PA, the fundamental issues remain the same and conflict will only be around the corner with every backlash being more violent than the one before. and since two-state solution has been undermined by jewish colonies in the west bank, we all must work towards one-state. there is simply no other viable solution left.