Thursday, December 04, 2003

sputtering

I took a cab home from work yesterday, since I had tons of very heavy packages (just trying to help the economy).

The driver had the radio to some "Free Radio" station, and they were interviewing someone regarding the Geneva agreements. Now I haven't read that much about them, and have some suspicions that I wouldn't agree with their results, but...

This man was talking about how unacceptable it was since Israel was 'only' willing to give back parts of Jerusalem, and that Palestinians would give back their fundamental Right of Return. Then he started going on about Israel's 'ill-gotten gains.' And through all this, the interviewer just kept asking him encouraging questions; none of them having to do with how Israel got the territories (their ill-gotten gains) in the first place, why it was that Israel they haven't given back any more of the West Bank, or why they had supposedly violated their end of the agreement, while nothing was said about Palestinian violence and violations.

The clincher? After the interview was over, the announcer thanked Mustafa, founder of IntifadaOnline. So much for any semblance of objectivity.

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