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Written by Remi Kanazi
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*This is my first post. I was going to write a welcoming message introducing everyone to the Poetic Injustice Blog, but I combined it with a post instead. So welcome! Also, we are still tweaking the blog, so I only got functions from 1998 right now, hence the super-advanced formatting below.
A gunman in Central Jerusalem went on a shooting spree, killing one person and wounding another. I read about the incident on Haarertz, which is about as left as you can get in the Israeli mainstream. What jumped out at me while reading the piece was the so-called motives of the gunman. The article states:
////Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said investigators were considering all motives, including nationalistic, as one of the victims apparently was an Arab.
Nationalistic? Really? If there was an explosion in Tel Aviv tomorrow where a Palestinian man had strapped a bomb to his chest, would it be characterized as a nationalistic bombing? I guess it's one of those funny terms like "natural growth," which is better known as right wing zealots from Brooklyn flying over to illegally squat on Palestinian land.
Obscene quote of the day discussing "natural growth" (found on Mondoweiss' blog, which found it on Promised Land's blog--who the hell to I cite?):
/////“The American demand to prevent natural growth is unreasonable, and brings to mind Pharaoh who said: Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river,” Science Minister and Habayit Hayehudi head Daniel Herschkowitz said Sunday.
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