Rachel Maddow has mentioned Gaza on her show just 6 times over the past decade (Page 1/1)
sourmash MAY 19, 09:24 AM
I listed this as Politics just in case someone sees it that way.

https://mondoweiss.net/2021...-on-gaza-in-7-years/

Rachel Maddow has mentioned Gaza on her show just 6 times over the past decade

Over the course of a decade Rachel Maddow has had over 2,000 shows and has mentioned Gaza just five times. While others at her network have been speaking out, the MSNBC star remains silent.
BY MICHAEL ARRIA MAY 18, 2021

RACHEL MADDOW
Last week Ali Velshi used the a-word.

“Palestinians are at best third-class citizens in the nation of their birth,” the MSNBC anchor told viewers. “The idea that it’s even remotely controversial to call what Israel has imposed on Palestinians a form of apartheid is laughable.”

“After more than seven decades of not just being deprived of land from which they were evicted, Palestinian frustration runs deep,” he continued. “It may be worth going deeper than what you hear inside your bubble and understanding the depth to which the Palestinian people are subject to apartheid in their own land, deprived of basic necessities, and subject to relentless civil rights violations. This is not a secret. It’s out there for you to see, you just have to look for it.”

My words: Apartheid? This isnt South African apartheid wherein the Blacks benefited greatly as compared to how the middle of them lives now. Apartheid o ly begins to describe Gaza.

Velshi statement was echoed by Joy Reid, one of the most popular voices at the network. “What Ali Velshi says in this succinct explanation is just facts: painful, well known and documented facts,” she tweeted. “Israel has a right to exist in peace but so do Palestinians, who currently suffer under what can only be called apartheid. And no one is doing anything about it.”


These aren’t the only anchors who have highlighted the suffering of Palestinians. Ayman Mohyeldin (who lived in Gaza when he worked for Al Jazeera) has interviewed multiple Palestinians about Israel’s attacks, including the activist Mohammed el-Kurd. Mehdi Hasan has questioned the consistent pro-Israel narrative of most mainstream outlets.“The fundamental unavoidable reality at the heart of this conflict is there is an asymmetry of power here,” he said last week. “One side is the occupier. The other side is occupied. And media coverage, political commentary, international interventions that don’t reflect this fact… are all, I’m sorry to say, part of the problem.”


It’s important to put MSNBC’s recent coverage into context. It’s not that the network is suddenly fantastic on the subject of Palestine or has stopped bringing on Israel apologists. Acknowledging that Israel is an apartheid state also isn’t exactly controversial outside of the contours of U.S. political thought.

However, the mainstream media has been so reflexively pro-Israel for so long that even the most basic acknowledgement of Palestinian humanity can feel like a seismic shift. A recent Daily Beast article on Hasan and Mohyeldin declares that the duo is “doing something practically unheard of on an American television outlet.” Unfortunately that’s probably true, but what they’re doing is simply reporting on Israel’s brutality and treating Palestinians like human beings.

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Hudini MAY 19, 06:52 PM
It's strange how when a theme is decided it's broadcast simultaneously by the various progressives. Who decides what they are to say? It comes across as one entity making the decision on what to push and then the faithful falling in line. Is this the DNC? Soros' Open Society Organization? Another?
sourmash MAY 19, 07:46 PM
cliffw MAY 20, 08:53 AM

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Originally posted by sourmash:
I listed this as Politics just in case someone sees it that way.



Are you a dumb azz ? Every topic I create is listed as "POLITICS". For those Safe Space peoples.



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Originally posted by sourmash:
“After more than seven decades of not just being deprived of land from which they were evicted, Palestinian frustration runs deep,” he continued. “It may be worth going deeper than what you hear inside your bubble and understanding the depth to which the Palestinian people are subject to apartheid in their own land, deprived of basic necessities, and subject to relentless civil rights violations.



Being deprived of land from which they were evicted, .

It was never their land. They were squatters. They were evicted from the lands that they came from.


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Originally posted by sourmash:
“Israel has a right to exist in peace but so do Palestinians, who currently suffer under what can only be called apartheid. And no one is doing anything about it.”



Heh. Who lobbed the first rocket ?
rinselberg MAY 20, 08:58 AM
The Rachel Maddow Show of Wednesday, May 19--yesterday if you're keeping score--had several minutes on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and Democrats who want to scuttle or at least delay a pending $750 million arms purchase by Israel.
sourmash MAY 20, 09:23 AM
Israel never pays for the weapons we give them. A sale will be announced then a later bill gets a rider gifting them the previous sale price. Sometimes they sell the technology to other nations, technology they weren't sold or given.

If Mr Rachel mentioned Gaza, it was 7th time, if you're keeping count.

My living parents are older than Israel by several years. Israel also never paid the agreed price for the land they took from the indigenous Arabs to create Israel (including from the Palestinians, some of which were Christians).

Nome of the Arabs want the Palestinians either.
rinselberg MAY 21, 04:03 AM
Not 7 anymore, but 8.

Hamas, Israel, Gaza, U.S. involvement was the first topic on Thursday night's episode of TRMS.
sourmash MAY 21, 08:05 AM
So shaming her is working. Good.
Because we're all Palestinians to 'them'.
sourmash MAY 23, 10:49 AM
wow. i didn't see that coming, right? how fortunate that rockets from "someone" would spark a career saving war at such a convenient time.

https://news.yahoo.com/isra...fifth-085502269.html

Israel's prime minister heading for fifth election after Gaza conflict saves political career

Israel's prime minister is heading for a fifth election with a significant boost to his credibility in the wake of the Gaza conflict, even as his rivals plot behind the scenes to remove him from power.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who just a fortnight ago was set to be dethroned by a former right-wing protege, has stepped back into his "Mr Security" persona after 11 days of intense fighting with Hamas.

Other senior members of the so-called "anti-Netanyahu" coalition, such as Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, have vowed to continue talks on forming a government despite the loss of Mr Bennett.

If we had a government, security considerations would not be mixed with political considerations," he claimed in a post on Facebook. "No one would ask themselves why the fire always breaks out just when it's most convenient for the prime minister."