WSJ Propaganda

This WSJ opinion piece by Shelby Steele might be the worst propaganda piece I've ever seen in the major media. I mean,... I know it's in the "opinion" section but the WSJ editors couldn't have even read it. It's so full of crap it makes the George Will global warming "lie' articles look good.

Shelby Steele is either a full-fledged, Israeli propagandist or he's a fucking idiot. Either way, he shouldn't ever be allowed to write for any major US media again.

Here is the article: Shelby Steele - WSJ

Some Highlights (Lowlights?).....

"This, of course, is not the reality of modern Israel. Israel does not seek to oppress or occupy—and certainly not to annihilate—the Palestinians in the pursuit of some atavistic Jewish supremacy"

and

"Here again it is safer in the white West to see the Palestinians as they advertise themselves—as an "occupied" people denied sovereignty and simple human dignity by a white Western colonizer."

Israel may not seek to oppress and occupy, and it may not be for "the pursuit of some atavistic Jewish supremacy" but they do. There is no other way to describe it, Israel occupies Palestinian land and oppresses the Palestinian peoples in the West Bank and Gaza. This is the reality. Walls, troops, check-points, aircraft flying overhead, land and sea blockades. If that's not occupied i don't know what is. It has been and is happening before our eyes and this fool acts like it's not. Again, he's a liar or a fucking idiot.

"and it is bad manners to be outraged at Hamas's recent attack on a school because it educated girls"

I tried to find a link on this but couldn't find anything. Did I miss it? Did he just make it up? Is he confusing it with a similar attack in Afganistan? I don't know it may have happened, but if you put "HAMAS ATTACK on SCHOOL" into Google, the first link is to a CNN article about Israeli artillery killing 40 people in the shelling of a UN school. Attack on School

Somehow, I'll bet he's not outraged over Israel's attack on a school.

This is the most amazing paragraph to me.

"Our problem in the West is understandable. We don't want to lose more moral authority than we already have. So we choose not to see certain things that are right in front of us. For example, we ignore that the Palestinians—and for that matter much of the Middle East—are driven to militancy and war not by legitimate complaints against Israel or the West but by an internalized sense of inferiority. If the Palestinians got everything they want—a sovereign nation and even, let's say, a nuclear weapon—they would wake the next morning still hounded by a sense of inferiority."

This is amazing... "they hate us because they are inferior" ??? How smug, racist, elitist can you be. George Bush's "they hate us for our fredoms" was bad but "because they are inferior"?

No Mr. Steele, they don't hate us because they are inferior. They don't hate us for our freedoms. They hate us because over the last fifty years or so Israel has been stealing more and more of their homelands and killing more and more of their people and they've been doing this with US support, with US arms, with US politicians looking the other way, and with US media hacks like you painting a false picture of the situation to the American people.

You should be ashamed.