Mere Rhetoric: Beit Hanoun Meme Watch - (5) "World Indifference" - We Learned About That Indifference From Every Major Newspaper On The Planet

MR's SERIES ON MEDIA COVERAGE OF BEIT HANOUN
(Intro) Beit Hanoun Meme Watch
(1) "Rage and Tears" - Apparently Theats Of Genocide Are OK If You're Really Upset
(2) "The Palestinians Are Really Pissed Off" - And The NYT Will Publish Death Porn To Prove It
(3) Stupid Headline Tricks - Hey Listen, Calling It A "Massacre" Is Still Bias, Even If You Think You're Being Clever By Quoting Someone
(4) "The al-Athamnah Family" - If You Make The Tragedy Seem Really Personal, Then People Will Really Get Outraged
(Interlude) Convergence of Bias - With This Simple Formula, You Too Can Produce Solid Anti-Israel Journalism
(5) "World Indifference" - We Learned About That Indifference From Every Major Newspaper On The Planet
(6) "Israelis Demoralized and Blaming Themselves" - Actually, No They're Not
(7) "Palestinian Unity (Government / Suicide Bombings / Whatever) Is Israel's Fault" - LIARS
(8) "Israeli Terrorism" - Want To Guess Who Reuters Is Willing To Label A Terrorist?
(9) "It's All About Olmert's Domestic Political Situation" - Predictable Bias Is Real Bias

ORIGINAL POST

You know, we'd be more sympathetic to these pathos-soaked declarations of how the world is ignoring the Palestinians...

One Palestinian commentator accuses the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of ignoring humanitarian considerations, but there is also anger at the perceived indifference of the wider world to Palestinian suffering... If the blood shed in Beit Hanoun were wine spilled in the salons of the political Arab elite, then the anger would have been great and protest marches would have been organised. The shedding of Palestinian blood has become something only noted in passing, something which does not trouble the Arab and international conscience.

... if we didn't first find it in the effing BBC. World indifference to Palestinian suffering? It took like 20 minutes for the UN to pass a resolution condemning the Israeli action (answering our question: what does it take to get condemned in the UN General Assembly for killing civilians? Apparently, the answer is "it has to be unintentional". Also "the victims have to not be Jewish", but that's a seperate post).

Of all the memes, indifference may not be the most frustrating one. But it is probably the most obviously stupid:

As a comparison, the total number of stories on Rumsfeld's resignation is clocking in at below 2,500. Probably because it wasn't as significant as the news that launching rockets at Israeli schools from the middle of densely-packed urban areas puts those areas' residents in the line of fire.

Previously: Palestinians Commit Several War Crimes in Just a Few Hours. Instead of Reporting That, Reuters Publishes Gripping Tale of Glorious Palestinian Martyrdom (and We're Not Even Exaggerating About That...), Like Hezbollah, Hamas Uses Children As Human Shields, Video of Palestinian Gunmen and Women Committing War Crimes