Finally, Israel is alienating the US mainstream media

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/israel-alienating-mainstream.html

It’s happening: we are at last seeing significant American mainstream dissent from the Israeli line during this conflict. There is growing space to voice criticism of our closest friend in the Middle East because of what is widely perceived to be a “disaster” unfolding in Gaza (to quote Ali Abunimah).

Friends and commenters call me optimistic/naive (as Michael Ratner does on Law and Disorder radio today) but in my list below is everything from John Kerry’s hot-mic moment expressing anger at the Israeli brutality– a moment Kerry has survived– to The New Yorker accusing Israel of a “war crime,” to TV reporters Richard Engel and Karl Penhaul describing the inhumane conditions in Gaza, to Anne Barnard of the New York Times explaining to Americans that Gaza is an open-air prison, to Lawrence Weschler’s outburst, that Israel has “rabies” and Gaza is “a concentration camp.”
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It is just a matter of time before some liberal Zionists (who are merely the most amenable voices inside a reactionary American support community) begin to jump off the Zionist tank. Today Haaretz reported the following, according to Americans for Peace Now:

J-Street pulls sponsorship from pro-Israel rally in Boston – The left-wing organization complained there was ‘no voice for our concerns about the loss of human life on both sides, or the acknowledgement of the conflict’s complexity.’ (Haaretz+)

[RufusTFirefly]

1. Alas, that probably won't discourage nasty responses to your thread

... as well as careful avoidance of the fact that under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, collective punishment is a war crime.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The tide has turned, the nasty responses have fallen to near zero....funny how dead children shown

on TV has that affect.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Thank you to the brave real journalists that are in Gaza to report on the horrors of war....they are

heroes, the armchair media pundits of America are being exposed as charlatans.

[easychoice]

3. pointing out their butchery is "anti Semite"

They should adopt a constitution where church and state are separate.Then they all could live equally in common.Like Balfour was thinking back in 1917...

The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

that was 100 years ago.What a waste of human beings.