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Из журнала "Commentary"
May. 16th, 2018 10:20 pmавтор - Sohrab Ahmari
The Media War on Palestinian Agency
Palestinian Arabs are human beings, which means they are possessed of free will, agency, and the natural capacity to reason like any other people. This basic, incontestable anthropological reality needs to be frequently restated today since our media and foreign-policy establishment has apparently concluded the opposite.
By the Western media’s dim lights, the blame for Hamas's criminal stunt and the casualties it caused lay with . . . anybody and everybody but Hamas and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians’ more sophisticated friends know what Hamas is all about. They understand that young men whipped into a frenzy by an organization that exists to destroy world Jewry, per its charter aren't exactly latter-day Freedom Riders. But they think that the Palestinians can't help themselves. While they expect Israel - a state encircled by hostile populations and threatened with nuclear extinction by the Iranian mullahs - to behave like Norway, of the Palestinians they have the most dismal, if any, expectations.
The Media War on Palestinian Agency
Palestinian Arabs are human beings, which means they are possessed of free will, agency, and the natural capacity to reason like any other people. This basic, incontestable anthropological reality needs to be frequently restated today since our media and foreign-policy establishment has apparently concluded the opposite.
By the Western media’s dim lights, the blame for Hamas's criminal stunt and the casualties it caused lay with . . . anybody and everybody but Hamas and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians’ more sophisticated friends know what Hamas is all about. They understand that young men whipped into a frenzy by an organization that exists to destroy world Jewry, per its charter aren't exactly latter-day Freedom Riders. But they think that the Palestinians can't help themselves. While they expect Israel - a state encircled by hostile populations and threatened with nuclear extinction by the Iranian mullahs - to behave like Norway, of the Palestinians they have the most dismal, if any, expectations.
