The Raving Bullshit About Gaza:

Gaza:

Home to the ridiculously poor, the downtrodden, the place of bloated babies' bellies, the source of bombed-out baby milk factories at the behest of Commando Israelis, dying elderly, dying Palestinians, dying infants, dying blue collar workers, dying sifters through burning trash, abused and dying administrators, ignorant itinerants working for pennies per day. Themselves dying. Everyone, after all, if you scan the DEM/MSM, is dying in Gaza.

Or perhaps: not?

Where have I recently found the bulk of journalistic truths the past year? Why, that would not include American so-called "journalists."

I've found much of my revelatory information grounded in UK media or other "foreign" sources.

In that vein, I proffer this Canadian National Post article about the real state of Gaza:

Indeed the BBC and other prominent Western media regularly lead their viewers and readers astray with accounts of a non-existent “mass humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza.

What they won’t tell you about are the fancy new restaurants and swimming pools of Gaza, or about the wind surfing competitions on Gaza beaches, or the Strip’s crowded shops and markets.

Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that western journalists refuse to report on because it doesn’t fit with the simplistic story they were sent to write.

Here, courtesy of the Palestinian Ma’an news agency, is a report on Gaza’s new Olympic-sized swimming pool . (Most Israeli towns don’t have Olympic-size swimming pools. One wonders how an area that claims to be starved of water and building materials and depends on humanitarian aid builds an Olympic size swimming pool and creates a luxury lifestyle for some while others are forced to live in abject poverty as political pawn refugees?)

If you pop into the Roots Club in Gaza, according to the Lonely Planet guidebook, you can “dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu”.

The restaurant’s website in Arabic gives a window into middle class dining and the lifestyle of Hamas officials in Gaza. And here it is in English, for all the journalists, UN types and NGO staff who regularly frequent this and other nice Gaza restaurants (but don’t tell their readers about them).

And here is a promotional video of the club restaurant . In case anyone doubts the authenticity of this video, I just called the club in Gaza City and had a nice chat with the manager who proudly confirmed business is booming and many Palestinians and international guests are dining there.

In a piece for The Wall Street Journal last year, I documented the “after effects” of a previous “emergency Gaza boat flotilla,” when the arrivals were seen afterwards purchasing souvenirs in well-stocked shops. (You can also scroll down here for more pictures of Gaza’s “impoverished” shops.)

But the mainstream liberal international media won’t report on any of this. Playing the manipulative game of the BBC is easy: if we had their vast taxpayer funded resources, we too could produce reports about parts of London, Manchester and Glasgow and make it look as though there is a humanitarian catastrophe throughout the UK. We could produce the same effect by selectively filming seedy parts of Paris and Rome and New York and Los Angeles too.

Read more:http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/05/25/fancy-restaurants-and-olympic-size-pools-what-the-media-won%E2%80%99t-report-about-gaza/#ixzz0qb0xnmFn

Tom Gross finally writes:

But the way that many prominent Western news media are deliberately misleading global audiences and systematically creating the false impression that people are somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel’s fault, can only serve to increase hatred for the Jewish state – which one suspects was the goal of many of the editors and reporters involved in the first place.

Of course, you won't read of any of this. Not with regards to Gaza. Not with regards to any "Palestinians." Not in American media.

Because that would, you see, conflict with the greater agenda embraced by the U.S. DEM (Defeatist Elitist Media): Western, minimal melanin, Jew = BAD.

Everyone else = GOOD.

Please watch this horribly depraved video -- if you have the intestinal fortitude:



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BZ