Comments on: Untermenschen http://pulsemedia.org/2009/08/05/untermenschen/ "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: qunfuz http://pulsemedia.org/2009/08/05/untermenschen/#comment-4850 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:18:52 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=14318#comment-4850 Well, obviously, Nihal, I don’t agree with the ‘terrorist’ designation. I’ve recently started using it sometimes to describe Israeli troops, but only as a counterblow against the mainstream media. It’s a thoroughly ideological word. I don’t see a moral distinction between a man with a suicide belt and a man who pushes a button because the state tells him to. The distinction comes from whether they are using violence to oppress or to resist oppression. The line above was resisting the stereotyping of Palestinians as ‘terrorists’.

]]> By: Nihal http://pulsemedia.org/2009/08/05/untermenschen/#comment-4847 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:55:46 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=14318#comment-4847 Thanks for the article and insightful remarks. Only the last sentence could be easily misinterpreted:

“She looks like a human being, does she not? Not like a terrorist or a representative of the ‘Arab mind.’”

People can disagree with their motives but Palestinian terrorist are human beings. Israeli terrorists that are ethnically cleansing Palestine are viewed as human beings too.

]]> By: Andrew Bigioni http://pulsemedia.org/2009/08/05/untermenschen/#comment-4837 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:16:56 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=14318#comment-4837 Great article. I myself also stayed with the Hannouns while in Palestine and I’m extremely saddened by the recent events, though they came as little surprise. Thank you for your incisive article, and for telling it like it is.

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