One hundred and sixty-five little girls, ages 7 to 12, triple tapped at the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab while they sat in morning lessons and the New York Times hedges it with #Iran Says, while nine Israeli deaths get stated as cold, unqualified, God’s-own fact. This is grotesque theological supremacy... a hierarchy of whose children count, whose grief gets the definite article, whose corpses require a disclaimer before the world is permitted to mourn them. The same rag that led the d...
...rum-beat to Baghdad, that printed Judith Miller’s Pentagon fairy tales as front-page scripture to ease the path for #Iraq 2003, is teaching you epistemology about dead Iranian schoolgirls. Ask yourself if Israeli missiles had triple-tapped a Jerusalem elementary school and killed 165 girls between seven and twelve, their math books still open on the desks, would the headline read #Israel Says? You know the answer in your bones. Every person on this earth who isn’t professionally paid knows...
