September 24
2004
The Guardian's new low
» Posted on September 24, 2004 06:19 PM » Category: Terror

Norman Geras flags up a piece in the Guardian which I simply could not believe said what I thought it said when I first read it. It does. The Guardian has published some vile things of late, but Jonathan Steele's piece today takes the biscuit.

According to Steele:

Thanks to Zarqawi and various small groups of local Islamists whom he has managed to inspire, all non-Arabs in Iraq have become potential targets. No distinction is made between those who take jobs with the occupation, and journalists, UN employees and aid workers, who are neutral or, in many cases, severe critics of US and British policy.

And what distinction should be drawn, Mr Steele? Are you saying that there is a distinction which kidnappers and murderers should draw between 'those who take jobs with the occupation' and 'journalists, UN employees and aid workers'? Is one OK, the other not? Is the murder of workers employed by the Iraqi government somehow more justified than that of journalists? Try as I might, I can't read that any other way.

And if you think that is a sickening enough example of the warped moral outlook of one of the Guardian's main columnists, there's more:


In Gaza and the West Bank, for all the chaos and confusion of authority caused by 37 years of Israeli occupation, Palestinian leaders and Palestinian society remain far-sighted, civic-minded, and secular enough to keep out these kinds of Islamist soldiers of fortune. Al-Qaida and its followers are unknown in Palestine. Foreign aid workers and western journalists have never been kidnapped. They are more likely to be killed by the Israeli army than by gunmen on the Palestinian side.

In Steele's world view, so long as it's not Al Qaeda doing the murdering, then those Palestinian leaders who plan, finance and order the murders of Israeli men, women and children are 'far-sighted, civic-minded, and secular enough'.

Steele's column is, literally, disgusting. As a Jew, I will be fasting for the next 24 hours. A good thing, too. If I was to eat now, I would probably throw up.


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I would have thought it was quite obvious that the left are racists when they said that Arabs can't do democracy...

Stated by: Rob Read on September 24, 2004 6:37 PM

Why bother reading the Guardian at all? I gave up 2 years ago. A paper which allows someone as vapid as Toynbee to write two columns a week and which considers Steele to be a foreign policy expert is not meant for people with brains. Stick to the Times.

Stated by: Janan Ganesh on September 25, 2004 4:00 PM

Any Brit or Yank in Iraq, military or civil, is fair game. If it's too dangerous for relief organisations, it's too dangerous for mercenaries and camp followers. Never mind the rights and wrongs-- this is common sense, and whoever flouts it should be left to the tender mercies of his captors.

Stated by: Splendid Isolationist on September 25, 2004 10:45 PM

Actually, aid workers have been held hostage, diplomats murdered and journalists murdered by the PLO. Not that you'd ever know reading the Guardian.

Stated by: Colt on September 26, 2004 3:47 PM

Sadly, this sort of thinking is old hat. It's familiar from Northern Ireland. The use of the word 'innocent' was normative: if an IRA scumbag killed a teenage soldier that was OK, but if a schoolgirl got caught in the blast she was an 'innocent victim'. That they were both innocent and undeserving victims of a foul and murderous ideology was nowhere mentiomed. It's the same here. This is a classic Leftist trope – to categorise the victims of terrorism and thus deligitimise the deaths of some of them.

Stated by: David Gillies on September 27, 2004 5:34 AM

Of course Hamas are just a group of middle of the road, secular, down to earth kind of guys.

The reason that Al Kaide is not active in Palestine is that the gap in the market for a rabid islamist murderous organisation has already been filled by Hamas.

Stated by: EU-Serf on September 27, 2004 4:09 PM

A CNN producer was kidnapped in Gaza by Palestinian gunmen today.

Stated by: Gregory Spawton on September 27, 2004 6:57 PM

The Guardian makes me physically nauseas sometimes. Their hypocrisy, their double-standards are almost overwhelming. The worst thing is that layering some people and their actions with various emotionally charged words and repeating that action over and over again is a method which works! A type of emotional indoctrination, a mass hypnosis.

The only ones to be immune are those (like the majority of us on this site) who have a reason to challenge each sentence. Who have the knowledge to see through each such attempt to cocoon each side with the colours the Guardian wishes them to have.

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