The Independent‘s Mark Steel is unhappy with MSM coverage of the Palestinian shopping spree. How did we get by without him?
The problem for the media is that people escaping for bread, diesel and fags are spoiling Israel’s strategy, so that can’t be celebrated, as that would appear biased. It’s as if, after Comic Relief night, the BBC had to have an evening in favour of starvation in the interests of being neutral.
And yet by every account it’s a classic feelgood story. It’s even a marvellous example of religious unity, as Hamas have followed the lesson of Moses by leading people out of danger through Egypt.
Steel’s analogy: Hamas as Moses and — by implication — Israelis as latter day Pharoahs, utterly fails.
• Egypt enslaved the Jews. Steel’s Israeli pharoahs disengaged from Gaza.
• The enslaved Jews posed no security threat to their Egyptian taskmasters. The Palestinians fire rockets daily at their Israeli “taskmasters.”
• The Jews left Egypt, someone else’s homeland, for freedom in their own homeland. The Palestinians are already in Gaza, and they’ve governed themselves since 2005.
Will Charlton Heston play Mahmoud Zahar in the movie too?
