 Op-Ed
"A
tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing."
Media
Coverage of the Attacks in Baghdad and Jerusalem on
August 19
A Brainwashed
American Looks at CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS, ABC,
NBC by "Tunz-o-Mazah" THERE was a time when I used to
read books. So I have a sense of reality, though it
has receded into the back of mind, unable to
compete with TV in full color. I don't have much of a problem with the TV
coverage of the attack on an Israeli bus in
Jerusalem. I already know that Jewish lives are
more important than Palestinian lives. The ultimate
in evil is the death of a Jewish child. My humanity
is outraged. The TV coverage is so effective, followed by
numerous spiels by committed Jewish and pro-Zionist
commentators. Now I understand issues which used to puzzle me.
Now I know: 
The ratio of Palestinian children killed to
Jewish children is okay. For every 93
Palestinian children, 4 Jewish children are
killed. Isn't it outrageous that 4 Jewish
children are killed! Only the 93 Palestinian
children should have been killed. I can take
that much better because most of those attacks
by Israel don't make it to my favorite TV
channels.
Jerusalem is an occupied city. Israel took it by
force. Good! Let's keep it that way. Let's
invite the mayor of the occupied city to
Baltimore's synagogue so he can tell us how
beautiful the occupation is.
Somewhere I read that Israel expelled several
million Palestinians and took their homeland and
calls it Israel. Now I can forget about that and
live a normal life.
I am relieved that the Palestinians have no
tanks, artillery or jet fighters. [Our
government makes sure they don't.] So when
they try to break the occupation by turning
themselves into weapons, they do a lot of
collateral damage, including killing those
lovely Jewish children. I cry over the children.
Thank goodness the Palestinians have no
sophisticated weapons, otherwise our [excuse
me, I mean Israeli] military forces might be
in danger.
I read somewhere that under International Law,
the victims of occupation have the right to hit
back and kill any occupier they can, regardless of
whether the occupiers travel in buses or in tanks.
That's in some book of law which was invoked
against the Nazis in World War II, but TV helps me
to put aside that troubling law of retribution. 
NOW I turn to a more difficult subject, the attack
on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
How dare "they" attack the United Nations! I
know it's wrong to kill anyone. Why would anyone
attack the UN when its only interest is in the
"reconstruction" of Iraq? Here I am so shocked by the attack, with all the
horrors of death and destruction, that I am willing
to forget quite a bit of what I learned when I used
to read books. Isn't it true that the UN did not
approve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq? So, how
shameful it is to attack the UN headquarters in
Baghdad. [Don't tell me that the UN was
part of the U.S. occupation. Don't tell me that
a U.S. military platoon was guarding the UN
headquarters. Don't tell me that a U.S.
"diplomat" was in the building coordinating the
"reconstruction" when the bomb went off. Don't
tell me that the UN cannot set up an HQ in
Baghdad without U.S. approval. Are you trying to
deprogram me? Leave me alone. I want to
believe!] Unfortunately, the reading I did before TV
brainwashed me keeps creeping back into my mind. My
"gawd awful" brain keeps generating thought. Stop
it! I want to believe! My pesky brain tells me that though the UN did
not approve the US-UK invasion:
The UN never condemned the invasion of Iraq,
although the US-UK were in clear violation of
the UN Charter.
Secretary General Kofi Annan, comfortably
married to a Jewish woman, never condemned the
US-UK invasion. In fact he has consistently
condemned Iraq and its mujahid leader.
The UN was in full support of the embargo and
sanctions on Iraq which left a million plus
Iraqi children dead over a period of 12 years.
In fact those were UN sanctions which were
imposed on Iraq and had to be respected even by
Muslim countries like Pakistan.
The UN has never implemented its resolutions
against Israel, not one.
Sanctions have not been imposed on Israel though
Israel has violated just about every UN
resolution.
My pesky brain tells me that in fact, Palestine
was handed over to the Jews by by the UN.
Even those areas of Palestine which are supposed
to be non-Israeli under the UN's convoluted
logic are occupied today by Israeli tanks. Does
the UN move against Israel? No..
Have the UN resolutions on Kashmir been
implemented? Forget it.
Has the UN imposed sanctions on Russia for its
genocide in Chechnya? Are you kidding! You think
the UN was put together to help the "bloody
Moslems?" [In the fog at the back of my
mind I remember a good book which documented
the fact that the UN is nothing more than an
instrument of U.S.-British power. Perish the
thought! I don't want that reality to haunt
me.] After shedding the ghosts of reality which my
brain harbors, I go back to TV. MSNBC shows a
Jewish professor from Haifa University and an
American Jew, Steve Emerson, discussing
"terrorism" [a code word for Islam] on
"Hardball." Now I can stop thinking and enjoy the
show.
ISN'T it terrible that someone blew up the UN. How
dare "they" stop the "reconstruction" of Iraq! We
are liberating Iraq and these terrorists are trying
to stop us. How dare they! I love President Bush. How comforting was
his thought that the attack on the UN headquarters
is actually an attack on "the Iraqi people." What a
deep thought! [Unfortunately US troops in
Baghdad did not believe Bush. The night after
the attack on the UN, they imposed a strict
curfew on Baghdad. What a shame! I was waiting
for all those Iraqis to come out and support the
US and condemn the attack. How will they come
out if there is curfew?] 
David Irving
comments: IN fact on its
news-splash page yesterday, AOL did add
red flames and color to the black smoke
coming from the UN headquarters site
(Wiesenthal
could not have done better).
As for "shock and
awe", we suspect that special-effects
pyrotechnic chemicals were added to the
bombloads on the opening day of the
aggression against Iraq, for the benefit
of the TV cameras. Somebody had certainly
told those cameras which way to point.
The only thing missing
that night was an organ over loudspeakers
playing da-da te-da, te-da! Study those
flashes and smoke clouds, the next time
they show them on a TV near
you. You will
agree.
Let's hear from an
airforce armorer on this topic
please. |
I enjoy TV but it is doing something to my brain
which was unexpected. I was so impressed by "shock
and awe" [all that colorful display of huge
explosions in Baghdad as B-52s and B-1s dropped
their loads on an Islamic metropolis]. After
"shock and awe", that pillar of smoke coming out of
the UN office looked puny.If it were bigger and more colorful, it would
look better on TV. [Stop it you pesky brain. That's
only the right of the US Air Force. Learn to
love those beautiful big planes. O, I loved
those explosions on the Afghan mountains, Tora
Bora. What glory! Little hiroshimas making
Afghanistan's mud huts bounce, making the solemn
mountains rattle.] Stop it and watch TV! Here comes Martin
Indyk, former U.S ambassador to Israel,
explaining the ravages of Islamic fundamentalism on
CNN. Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil. I love Bush. I love the
U.S. air force. | ![[]](../../std/dings/list.gif){kind=small}
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