History Is Indispensable to Journalism Re Gaza and Israel
Great historical read on Israeli and Palestinians,
With comments by Chief of Israeli general staff Moshe Dayan……
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/06/history-is-indispensable-to-journalism/
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In 1956, Moshe Dayan, then chief of the Israeli general staff, looked into both the recent past and to today to warn:
“What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. … We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. . . . Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.”
Dayan understood the indispensability of historical context, even when it pointed to his own side’s guilt.
It’s a history of the still ongoing process of the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Arabs by Israel, in the face of the foundational myth of a land without people for a people without a land. It’s a history understood by student protestors across the U.S., which is why the state and the media want them silenced.
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Consortium News never mentioned the fact that they were referencing a eulogy for an Israeli security officer on a kibbutz who was ambushed, murdered, and dragged across the border into Gaza where his body was mutilated. (That sounds familiar.)
Consortium News took the liberty of changing a key word and cobbling random sentences together to suit their agenda.
And then Consortium News linked to the actual text of the eulogy, confident that their readers wouldn't bother to read what Moshe Dayan actually said.
It's little wonder that News Guard Technologies issued a red shield warning and advises readers to "proceed with maximum caution" concerning when reading or sourcing Consortium News
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It maybe that Consortium News has gone the way of the horseshoe left.
A lot can happen in 20 years. Look at Tulsi Gabbard. Her shift from Fellow at The Sanders Institute to Putin's plant as Trump's Director of National Intelligence didn't even take a decade.
sentences from different parts of Moshe Dayan's eulogy for Roi Rutenberg into one bizarre paragraph. Why would Consortium News do such a thing?
You did know that this was a eulogy for an IDF soldier patrolling the border where he was ambushed, shot, and dragged into Gaza where his body was mutilated, right?
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Twenty percent of Israel's citizens are Israeli-Arab. Israeli-Arabs sit in the Knesset. An Israeli-Arab sits on Israel's Supreme Court. That's a pretty odd way to conduct an "ethnic cleansing of Arabs".
cobbling random, decontextualized sentences together, and presenting it as something someone said, you're right.
Why would Consortium News do such a thing and then provide a link to the actual text of the eulogy? I guess they take it for granted that their readers never check primary sources.
The parallel between how, in 1956, Roi Rutenberg was ambushed and murdered on a kibbutz, his body dragged into Gaza to be degraded and mutilated and what happened on October 7, nearly 70 years later is stunning, and Moshe Dayan's eulogy is a remarkable read in 2025 for just that reason.
How bizarre that Consortium News framed a eulogy for someone who had been murdered the day before as Moshe Dayan's random comments on the "recent past". How disgusting that Consortium News erased the murder victim that the eulogy commemorated.