tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049415.post116397458611143210..comments2023-09-11T13:02:33.078+03:00Comments on Anna's Eyewitness Reports from Palestine: Israeli Activist Shot & Reflections on NonviolenceAnna Baltzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11654225424192112342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049415.post-45276173928176234122007-09-11T00:13:00.000+03:002007-09-11T00:13:00.000+03:00Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will ...Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will bookmark!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049415.post-45877181147807193732007-08-19T07:52:00.000+03:002007-08-19T07:52:00.000+03:00Thanks for interesting article.Thanks for interesting article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049415.post-28132420639048790772007-08-19T02:30:00.000+03:002007-08-19T02:30:00.000+03:00Great article! Thanks.Great article! Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049415.post-8610948359640084632007-04-11T21:17:00.000+03:002007-04-11T21:17:00.000+03:00I just wanted to pick up on the dehumanization of ...I just wanted to pick up on the dehumanization of the Palestinian Arabs in Western eyes.<BR/>This is a very real issue, cultural misunderstandings and a very bad media strategy lie at the heart of this matter.<BR/>What the PA and the Palestinian people need more then anything is to be viewed as fellow humans by Western peoples and nations, and it requires them to learn certain ways they should act and present themselves in front of camera's.<BR/>No person who has grown up with a Western culture understands the mass gatherings of Palestinian burials and the shouts of revenge often accompanying them.<BR/>Nobody understands a mother who is screaming in front of camera's after her son has been killed.They understand quiet , composed, but deep grieving..and the news media always picks up some poor Arab woman screaming bloody murder instead of waiting perhaps an hour for her to calm down.So people get this idea of Palestinian Arabs as some kind of..non-humans.Because they don't seem to have the same emotional response and way of expressing themselves.<BR/>Some Arab woman screaming is never going to come across right in front of a Western audience.<BR/>It makes them seem irrational,hateful a person who is more interested in getting revenge then that she feels the loss of her loved one. <BR/>It creates the "other" the "savage" the lesser human.<BR/>And no matter how many camera's you have in the occupied territories as long as this is what they register and it manages to get through the news media's filters it still has the cultural filter to content with.<BR/>Even something simple as the way Hamas or PLO officials present themselves gets in the way.<BR/>Because the Israeli's will show their leaders , sitting in a chair, with a flag behind them.While the PA officials will be interviewed in a chaotic fashion often with loads of rag tag body guards around them.<BR/>It makes them seem like thugs or criminals not legitimate politicians.<BR/>Someone over their needs to wake the Palestinians up and get them to enact a real and proper media strategy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com