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Gaza And Haiti
By: Spencer Ackerman Friday January 15, 2010 11:45 am	Tweet8

Very different circumstances obviously. But as I read everyone’s well-placed concerns about Haiti relief diminishing after the cameras go back home, it’s very hard not to think of Gaza. I see M.J. Rosenberg has similar thoughts.

Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe a year after Operation Cast Lead. Over a million people live in squalor, with nearly no economic activity and insufficient relief efforts. It’s not right to say the international community ignores Gaza, since the ceaseless and compounding controversies over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prevent ignorance. But the crisis continues. I wonder if Gaza has achieved that horrible status where everyone recognizes how wretched and counterproductive and unacceptable its misery is but still nothing gets done.

My friend Matt Duss’ brother put together this Dischord-distributed compilation record last year to benefit a school for handicapped children in Gaza. Check it out. I know, I know — insufficient response from me to the scope of the problem. But we have to start somewhere, right?

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Leen January 16th, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Similarities and huge differences. The death and destruction in Haiti an act of nature . The death and destruction in the Gaza an act of humans.

The MSM spending hours, days on the death and destruction in Haiti. Not even a whisper about the situation in the Gaza in regard to the violence that took place there one year ago by our so called liberal media, including Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ed, Chris Matthtes. Not a whisper. And of course last year not much coverage.

Very little covearge by our MSM of the death and destruction in Iraq over the last seven years. Hundreds of thousands dead, injured millions displaced. We caused this. Barely a whisper. Little coverage

Hypocrisy is alive and well in the coverage of these disasters. The man made disasters and crimes, the deaths, barely a sound

The one thing that has me really freaked out about Haiti is how the bodies of the dead in Haiti are being treated. Have seene endless coverage of the bulldozers pushing bodies, people throwing their fellow Haitians onto these bulldozer sccoops with disregard, disrespect as if these people were bags of garbage with no histories, not families left behind, no worth. Such disrespect. Creepy and flat out horrid. I understand there mayby no cloth to wrap these bodies with, but do they have to throw them like piece of garbage onto a heap? Christ all mighty…children, brothers, mothers, fathers, what the hell is going on?