US Envoy Attacked by Right-wing Israeli Terrorists

The American bodyguards of a Bush administration envoy who was dispatched to the region to monitor the implementation of the road map engaged in a violent confrontation with right-wing Israelis who sought to disturb a visit to Hebron on Friday, Israel Radio reported.

That doesn't quite fit into the standard narrative, does it?

One of the rightists is reported to have driven his jeep into the convoy accompanying General William Fraser. Subsequently, one of the vehicles in the convoy heavily collided with the jeep, according to Israel Radio.

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(hat tip AmericanGoy)

That sounds an awful lot like what our media describes as a terror attack, doesn't it?  I suppose the label of terrorist is reserved for Muslims.  I won't pretend to know the full significance of the term "settler" to an Israeli reader, but it seems very generous.  

Still, as AmericanGoy points out, it shouldn't be surprising that none of this will be reported by the mainstream American Media:

Now, imagine for a second what would happen if an American envoy was in Hamas controlled territory, and a crazed Arab guy drove a jeep into one of the diplomatic convoy's cars.

... you can be sure that the US TV "news" would be informing about this incident 24/7, the pundits would discuss the incident endlessly, while calling Hamas a terrorist organization that has no control over the territory it polices.

But the incident happened in Israel, and involved a bunch of Israeli settlers, so - no TV reports. No outrage. Nothing happened at all, according to the TV news - focus on Rev. Wright, that's what Americans need to see!

This is election season, no time to think or talk about US-Israel relations.  It's so absurd, but not surprising; US support of Israel is completely off-limits.  This incident clearly demonstrates that the impediments to peace are much deeper and more complicated than we are led to believe, so it must be suppressed and ignored.  It blurs the neat little good/evil distinction the master storytellers have adopted.

I don't have much time to spend on this, and I'm no expert on the subject matter.  This diary is intended to shed light on an important event.

A few more interesting points from AmericanGoy:

... where the hell was the Israeli police/Army anyway?

Keep in mind, the incident was serious enough so that the American envoy cut his mission to Israel and run back to the USA.

So what will happen now?
Well, the incident will NOT be reported on American TV "news", instead we will get the smiling mug of Rev. Wright - again, for 20th night in a row.

Israel will get its $5+ billion "aid" money this year, as it gets it every single year.

And, while before, in the days of the Liberty Incident, Israel at least apologized to America when it did an outrage towards this country, these days don't expect this. Israel will simply ignore this and pretend nothing happened - it's not like our president or our Congress people will ask Israel about this incident, much less nicely ask Israel to explain things, or perhaps ask it to apologize for assaulting an American envoy...

No, the last one is pure science fiction - which American politician would even dare to utter under his breath something along the lines of "Perhaps we should ask Israel to explain the incident which just happened, when the American peace envoy was attacked by Israeli citizens. We need answers, and we need an official apology from Israel for this disgraceful behaviour!".

Well, any politician who would say something like that would be labeled by the TV pundits an anti-semite, as clearly going overboard, overreacting and criticizing our greatest friend and ally in the world, and the AIPAC and the rest of the pro-Israel Lobby in the USA would mark him and give moneys to his opponent during his next election.

I wonder how the professional pro-Israel apologists will try to spin this one, as they bury the story in digital media.

I wonder too.

Meanwhile, for an idea of what the our awesome media is reporting, you should definitely check out Glennzilla's fantastic (as usual) post on Michael Gordon's despicable NYT article that shamefully presents the Administration's unsubstantiated evidence against Iran as 'news.' Glennzilla