Tuesday, November 25, 2003

TERRORIST CORRECTNESS

Arlene Peck writes (Excerpts):

We, in this country, have gotten so ‘politically correct’ that the core of world terrorism isn’t admitted or acknowledged. Terrorists are continually described as ‘militants’, ‘insurgents’ ‘activists’ or Senior Hamas Leaders. Everyone knows that savages that roam cafes, schools and board busses to blow up everyone in sight are not someone committed to ‘suicide’ but they are murderers. Yet, these Homicide bombers, because of political correctness, are somehow given ‘equal time’. The press will shortly after their carnage do a ‘special’ on the poor Palestinian and how living is has been harmed because he can no longer go to his olive trees which were cut down because they were giving terrorists refuge.

The anti-Semitism in Europe is chilling but where are the cries from our country and others about the pre-Nazi Germany situation that is brewing now? Jewish day schools are being burned, the same for synagogues and yeshiva children are being advised to wear their yarmulkes under something else in order to avoid ‘confrontation.’ The situation is scary and getting worse while we are fed a daily diet of Michael Jackson and the movie star of the week who is getting their fifteen minutes of constant fame.

While synagogues are being bombed and worshipers slaughtered in places like Turkey, the European Union shelves their reports on anti-Semitism because they conclude that the Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind most of the incidents it examined. They are blind to the growing fears that there is an upsurge of anti-Semitism in their countries.

Lately though, I’m seeing signs that our media, along with our government, might be having an identity conflict. A recent Los Angeles Times had an article, “U .S .Seeks Advice from Israel on Iraq.” American reporters just don’t ‘get it’. While they described how “As the occupation grows bloodier, officials draw on an ally’s experience with ‘insurgents’. So, while the LA Times reporters report on America’s “occupation” and the “insurgents” who are killing our soldiers, they also reluctantly wrote how U.S. Army commanders, Pentagon officials and military trainers are being forced to have Israel teach us everything from how to set up roadblocks to the best way to bomb terrorists hide-outs in an urban area. Of course they referred to them as ‘guerrillas.’

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