[Peace-discuss] Dear U of I College of Communication:

[jencart at mailstation.com]

Susan,

The "too subtle, sorry" went w/ my (attempt at) irony re mainstream media's terminology....

"Compassion Fatigue" has been used for a while, I can't claim credit.  Your piece sounds timely.  Hope you get a good turn-out.

Jenifer


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Parenti <sparenti at uiuc.edu>
Sent: Apr 7, 2005 7:34 AM
To: jencart <jencart at mycidco.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Dear U of I College of Communication: 

Jenifer, I've written a piece about Compassion Fatigue, which will be  
performed by Walter Matherley and Mark Enslin, at the upcoming House  
Theater this weekend. Only I call it
'sensitivity test'. Maybe 'compassion fatigue' is a clearer  
name/analysis. I will imagine you in the audience.("too subtle,  
sorry"?)
Susan
On Apr 7, 2005, at 6:39 AM, jencart wrote:

> That was irony, David, proving yr point about the media.  Too subtle,  
> sorry.    Jenifer C
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> You haven't been reading the posts that I've been
> making. Israel has been attacking the Palestinians for
> a hundred years.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> --- jencart <jencart at mycidco.com> wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> Does Israel ever actually attack Palestinians?  From
>> what I hear,  it's the Palestinians that attack.....
>> Israel only retaliates.
>>
>> Schiavo, beached whales, a kid in a well, Lance
>> Armstrong, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other Big
>> Stories break thru the general stupor. Otherwise,
>> Compassion Fatigue seems as prevalent as obesity and
>> high Reality TV ratings.
>>
>> Jenifer C.
>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> number of Palestinian families from Bethlehem
>> leaving
>> them in ?no-man?s land? as they are not Israeli
>> citizens and now have no access to Palestinian
>> areas.
>> The wall has also destroyed thousands of olive trees
>> and other agricultural properties.
>>
>> Thus, not only does the Wall continue to be built on
>> Palestinian land further impoverishing the
>> indigenous
>> population for the benefit of a select ethnic group,
>> the continued unchecked violence by both Israeli
>> settlers and their military against unarmed and
>> non-combatant Palestinian has continued daily. Of
>> course we must not forget about the hundreds of
>> roadblocks and dozens of military checkpoints in the
>> West Bank that prevent people from attending school,
>> going to work, or visiting family.
>>
>> Of course the media is generally complicit to
>> uncritical reporting. Most of their information
>> comes
>> from the Israeli government itself and few reporters
>> leave Israeli proper or Jerusalem. During my three
>> 6-week visits to the West Bank, foreign journalists
>> were rarely seen. This should not be a considered a
>> surprise. Israel regularly refuses journalists (as
>> well as all foreign citizens and human rights
>> workers)
>> from traveling to Palestinian areas. Israel believes
>> that part of its war with the Palestinians is a
>> public
>> relations war. Israeli officials actually speak
>> openly
>> about their need to control the way the conflict is
>> represented in the United States and Europe. People
>> who get all their news about the conflict from the
>> mainstream media in the United States and Europe
>> will
>> never be able to understand this conflict. Without
>> searching for alternative news sites that cover the
>> events that occur there, most people in the ?west?
>> misunderstand the conflict as a ?war between two
>> peoples? or ?Israeli response to Palestinian
>> violence?
>> without understanding the basic fact that the
>> Palestinian people live under a harsh military
>> occupation by a foreign army - an occupation which
>> today is the longest running in history.
>>
>>
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