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Based on the down votes, maybe I’m missing something, but what is dehumanizing about referring to “the people of Gaza”?
Maybe I have a misunderstanding who that means and it some how excludes Palestinians?
ETA: It occurs to me that I haven’t seen the full context of Obama comments so that could change my perspective too…
Edit 2: Read it. Didn’t change my perspective at all.
It doesn't necessarily exclude Palestinians, but my interpretation is that using this language emphasizes that family ties of Israelis while simply referring to Palestinians as people (which, to be fair, is better than most Western media). It's similar to, also in said media, calling out Hamas "terrorism" or "attacks" while in the next breath lauding Israel's "peacekeeping missions" or something.
My take is that he simply didn't want to use the same words twice that close together.
Ms Rachel's 'take' isn't the only one, and certainly not mine.
Well buddy…
It’s not rocket politics.
But that reads like families in Israel and Palestine suffered equally. Clearly they did not.
And we'd be reading that criticism right now instead of this one.
Yes we would, and rightfully so.
Maybe this really is Rocket Politics and word choice matters.