Comments on: Ethan Bronner’s Quandary: A Fool’s Errand

By: JUST A NORMAL GUY

JUST A NORMAL GUY — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:18:34 +0000

WELL ETHAN BONER IS ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS LIKE BILL ORIELLEY, I MEAN HE IS GETTING ATTACKED BY THE LEFT AND BY THE RIGHT CONSTANTLY BUT HE STICKS TO HIS GUNS AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT YOU CA’NT PLEASE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. BUT ANYWAYS I MEAN, BILL O IS OBJECTIVE AS THEY COME AND YOU SEE HE IS GETTING HATE MAIL FROM THE LEFT WINGERS MOONBAY AND THE RIGHTIES TOO, I GUESS THATS WHAT YOU GET TRYING TO TELL A STRAIGHT STORY IN THESE TRYING TIMES.

By: robotech master

robotech master — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:58:57 +0000

While I haven’t finished reading this story…

“He does have a quandary. And he seems to have dealt with it by writing two kinds of stories, one that can be interpreted by some as pro-Palestinian, the other as pro-Israel. Thus, he penned one story on Israel’s use of white phosphorous, “a weapon that militaries use widely to obscure the battlefield but that is also limited under an international convention that bans targeting civilians with it.” Hamas claims that the phosphorous was intentionally used, and Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, among other groups, condemned Israel for war crimes.”

This hugely jumps out at me… first link doesn’t open to anything that I can read so I can’t even see the purposed info… however from my knowledge of the supposed sources of this piece its complete and utter BS. The whine that israel is using white phosphorous is 100% no debate a lie. The claim is that somehow white phosphorous flares are a deadly “weapons system”(of which even PJ media had a story about it) being used vs the ppl of gaza… flares are perfectly legal and every freaking country in the whole freaking world as far as I know uses white phosphorous flares…

The fact that he would even use sources from groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch without questioning or researching the information clearly already shows a lean toward printing and justifying typical anti-israel FAKED PROPAGANDA. So already in one case it has been clearly shown that he has knee-jerk propaganda anti-israel publisher syndrome.

I’ll review the rest of the piece however the white phosphorous propaganda is just such a blanet and childish lies that only a news reporter could fall for it.

By: goy

goy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:49:53 +0000

Ron, this affair seems analogous to Soderbergh's pretense of "objectivity" regarding his film Che. As is true of covering anything involving Hamas, the notion that one must be "objective" in telling the story of a common thug is not the position of a serious person. The transparent flaws in moral equivalence arguments needed to support such a notion are glaring. Kudos for your contribution in today's Times piece that exposes Soderbergh's and del Toro's agenda: glorifying a communist murderer as a "cowboy".

By: Pajewmas tuba teakettle of fish

Pajewmas tuba teakettle of fish — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:09:39 +0000

Justifying reasons to preserve life and be reasonable, easier than they look.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:13:03 +0000

Ethan Bronner feels placed in a no-win situation. The hateful Palestinians possess dark skin and therefore are perceived by the politically correct left-wing culture as inherently victims of white Israeli exploitation. It would make all the difference in the world if the Arabs were blue eyed and blond haired Aryans. A few freckles on their face could also be helpful. Anti-Semitism plays a secondary role. Of far greater importance is race guilt. Try imagining the Palestinians as looking like a bunch of red neck bubbas living in the Old South some 45 years ago. Now ask yourself the inevitable question: What difference would it make? I believe the answer is obvious.

By: Chris in Toronto

Chris in Toronto — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:58:46 +0000

Political correctness and moral equivalence are the cowards’ way of having to choose sides. Not choosing sides, that is not saying that right is right and wrong is wrong is simply denying the law of identity. May his head explode from the deserved cognitive dissonance his cowardice evokes.