We recently critiqued an article of Jonathan Cook’s in the International Herald Tribune, where Cook actually endorses more Palestinian terror — a statement that may constitute criminal incitement to murder.
Now, in the Egyptian Al- Ahram, Cook again claims that non-violent protest requires certain conditions which simply cannot be found in the Mideast. Cook dredges up the outrageous charge that Israelis deliberately shoot to kill:
During this Intifada, for example, 13 unarmed Palestinian citizens were shot dead inside Israel, in the Galilee, for organising largely peaceful demonstrations. And the first victims across the Green Line in the West Bank and Gaza were scores of children hit in the head by sniper bullets.
Cook also makes spurious comparisons to South African apartheid, claims that Israeli politicians successfully “neutered” their own left and divided the Palestinians into so many factions they can’t possibly unify enough to maintain a coherent non-violent struggle.
This is a neutral journalist?
