先ほど、安倍首相とイスラエルの首相の握手をアラブの人はよくはみないだろう、という発言がありましたが、
やはり、印象はよくはみないだろう、とは思いますね。政府の間違いを、その国民に投影するのは間違いだとはおもいますけど、アラブだけでなく、欧州なんかでも、そういった雰囲気があって、だからこそ反ユダヤ人の風潮が台頭してきてしまっている、ような印象はうける。
因みに、上記写真は、イスラエルにはかなり厳しい態度をとっている独立系のアメリカのメディアのもの。ガザで、虐殺をしておいて、国際刑事裁判所に参加するどころか、資金源まで、なくそうとするイスラエルを批判。
そのイスラエルについて、
February 09, 2015
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The Anti-Vegas
What Israel Does to Palestinians Doesn’t Stay in Palestine
by MARK HAND
イスラエルは、ガザの人に武器をつかって、それで武器の性能をためして、世界に売りつけているのだ、という人までいる。それは、わかりませんけど、アメリカにとって、イスラエルとアメリカ軍は神聖にして侵すべからずものである、と。アメリカンスナイパーという映画を批判したら、脅迫を受けるのも、神聖にして侵すべからずもの、侵犯してしまったらからなんだ、と。NYTとか、権力に寄り添う記者たちとちがって、イスラエルやアメリカ軍について忌憚のない記事を書くと、NYTなどでは採用されないだろう、と。
日本軍慰安婦問題についてあれだけ書ける大手のアメリカメディアが、米軍慰安婦問題について大騒ぎできない理由がここにあるのかもしれませんね。
やはり、印象はよくはみないだろう、とは思いますね。政府の間違いを、その国民に投影するのは間違いだとはおもいますけど、アラブだけでなく、欧州なんかでも、そういった雰囲気があって、だからこそ反ユダヤ人の風潮が台頭してきてしまっている、ような印象はうける。
因みに、上記写真は、イスラエルにはかなり厳しい態度をとっている独立系のアメリカのメディアのもの。ガザで、虐殺をしておいて、国際刑事裁判所に参加するどころか、資金源まで、なくそうとするイスラエルを批判。
そのイスラエルについて、
February 09, 2015
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The Anti-Vegas
What Israel Does to Palestinians Doesn’t Stay in Palestine
by MARK HAND
As long as news reporters stick to the script that says the U.S. military is an institution that occasionally makes mistakes but whose mission is honorable, they will stay out of trouble. Don’t dare go and provide a serious analysis of the motives of the war planners inside the White House and Pentagon.
“There are certain sacred ideas that we’re not supposed to come out against. And one of those is that the U.S. military is good,” Khalek said. “The corporate press is invested in a lot of companies that profit from militarism abroad. You’ll see an ad for defense contractor Lockheed Martin and then the next segment is on whether we should invade Iraq again.”
Even the most effective mouthpieces for the U.S. military will come under attack if they upset the sensibilities of military-first Americans. After getting accused of lying about riding in a U.S. military helicopter that was hit by “enemy fire” in Iraq, NBC News journalist Brian Williams issued an apology by employing the “support-the-troops” defense. He described his helicopter story from 2003 as a bungled attempt to thank “our brave military men and women, veterans everywhere.”
“Soldiers are revered as flawless heroes. The most sacred thing in America is the troops. You can’t criticize the troops. Even in liberal circles, it’s off limits,” Khalek explained.
In fact, Israel has built a billion-dollar homeland security industry by using Palestinians as test subjects. It then exports what it learns in Gaza and the West Bank to authoritarian regimes in other parts of the world. “What Israel does to Palestinians doesn’t stay in Palestine,” Khalek said.
Last summer, only weeks after killing more than 2,100 Palestinians in Gaza, Israel hosted an annual drone conference in partnership with the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. “Israel held this big drone expo to advertise the products that it used to kill Palestinians in Gaza,” Khalek said. “Those products will end up being sold to other regimes around the world who want to suppress and oppress a marginalized population of their own.”
At the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Khalek was a sophomore in high school in Northern Virginia. “9/11 was difficult because of the backlash toward Arabs and Muslims. I felt like I was marginalized and discriminated against in many ways. That was my first experience with that,” she said.
Khalek remembers her high school American history teacher, the day after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, opening class by saying there would be no discussion about the war. The teacher thought open dialogue could lead to criticism of the invasion, which would upset students whose parents were in the military.
More than 10 years later, Khalek looks back at her experience in high school as yet another example of how Americans are taught to embrace dangerous forms of nationalism. This closed mindset is why Khalek believes some Americans reacted so viciously to her reporting on the Clint Eastwood-directed movie “American Sniper.”
In her reporting for Electronic Intifada and on social media, Khalek highlighted the actual words that former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle used in his autobiography of the same name.” Kyle, in the book, boasts of killing 160 Iraqi “savages” during his four deployments in Iraq. “Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq,” Kyle writes in his book. “I only wish I had killed more,” he writes, adding, “I loved what I did … It was fun. I had the time of my life.”
In an article about the movie, Khalek writes that “American Sniper,” the movie, is “brilliant propaganda that valorizes American military aggression while delivering Hollywood’s most racist depiction of Arabs in recent memory, effectively legitimizing America’s ongoing bombing campaigns across the Middle East.”
While watching the movie, Khalek said she understood that it was propaganda, but at the same time she found the story line compelling. “That’s what makes me so mad. This is a good movie and it’s going to be effective,” she said in the interview. “It re-writes the Iraq war that makes Americans feel good about it. It dresses up the whitewashing of the Iraq war with this story about soldiers and how hard war is for soldiers and their families.”
Many Americans did not appreciate Khalek’s frank reporting on “American Sniper” and they let her know how they felt on social media. “I am a little rattled when people say, ‘I’m going to come shoot you.’ It is a little bit overwhelming when people say, ‘I hope ISIS rapes you and cuts your head off,'” she said. But Khalek emphasized that she doesn’t let the attacks on social media change how she lives her life. “I don’t physically feel threatened,” she said.
Unlike the establishment-friendly Chait, Khalek might have trouble getting a job at The New York Times or other mainstream outlets for her honest reporting on Israel and the military
イスラエルは、ガザの人に武器をつかって、それで武器の性能をためして、世界に売りつけているのだ、という人までいる。それは、わかりませんけど、アメリカにとって、イスラエルとアメリカ軍は神聖にして侵すべからずものである、と。アメリカンスナイパーという映画を批判したら、脅迫を受けるのも、神聖にして侵すべからずもの、侵犯してしまったらからなんだ、と。NYTとか、権力に寄り添う記者たちとちがって、イスラエルやアメリカ軍について忌憚のない記事を書くと、NYTなどでは採用されないだろう、と。
日本軍慰安婦問題についてあれだけ書ける大手のアメリカメディアが、米軍慰安婦問題について大騒ぎできない理由がここにあるのかもしれませんね。
