"Mother Amanpour" and her Magical Kingdom

By Richard

Once upon a time there lived a fairy God Mother by the name of Mother Amanpour. Mother Amanpour along with her magical wand and stellar journalistic tact for objectivity would skip and hop from one current event to another tapping her beautiful golden wand and deciding between sides of any world conflict as to who should be granted moral dominance.

To her subjects Mother Amanpour was "all knowing" wise and virtuous and would fly over conflict zones all over the world and when one struck her fancy would stop and tap her magnificent wand upon its subject and WALLAH! immediately knowledge and truth would be shown to the ignorant and light offered up to the blind.

A few of Mother Amnapours subjects resented her dispersal of knowledge which they claimed to be unbalanced and questioned her God Mother like objectivity, to which she replied with a crisp proper sting, "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing!

An explanation to which most of her subjects 'immediately accepted as divine truth while others remained quiet for fear of being turned into a frog. All of the subjects of Mother Amanpour's magical kingdom knew very well that it was she who created the stage, characters and plot.The truth be told the question many of her scared subject's held was not whether Mother Amanpour would give them a hearing but whether it would be a fair one?

CNN's recent attack on Israel last night was simply Mother Amanpour 's interesting but highly implausible way of telling a story a story where she creates the plot and characters. She and CNN however should hold there heads in shame for dissecting and picking at history to fit there concept of truth. History has one goal the search for truth and accuracy not conjured up fairy dust so as to make every one a villain and a hero. There are times in life where there exist true David's and Goliath's

Israel's true struggle can be summed up by the Israeli writer Yaacov Lozowick who clearly explains Israel's moral dilemmas:

Restricting the freedom of movement of entire communities is immoral. Refraining from these restrictions when there is unequivocal proof that this will lead to the murder of innocents is worse, because movement restricted can later be granted, while dead will never live again.

Demolishing the homes of civilians merely because a family member has committed a crime is immoral. If, however,... potential suicide murderers... will refrain from killing out of fear that their mothers will become homeless, it would be immoral to leave the Palestinian mothers untouched in their homes while Israeli children die on their school buses. Accidentally killing noncombatants in the cross fire of battles being fought in the middle of cities is immoral, unless... refraining from fighting in the Palestinian cities inevitably means the Palestinians will use the safe havens of their cities to plan, prepare and launch ever more murderous attacks on Jewish noncombatants. These concrete examples and others like them demonstrate the moral considerations that Israelis... have been dealing with since the Palestinians proudly decided to use suicide murder as their primary weapon." ("Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars", p.260)


Richard is the founder and editor of HipHopRepublican.com