re: #106 darthstar

To assume that there was a good reason to stop Dan Rather’s cameraman or whatever he was is to assume that Palestinians are suspect based on their race. To question the isolated situation doesn’t make a general statement about Israelis as a whole, but simply points to some of the problems of hyper-sensitive security procedures…there really is no good way to look at it.

Disagree, or, flip it, to assume that there was no good reason to stop Dan Rather’s cameraman is to assume that Israelis are suspect, based on their oft-asserted racism.

It’s OK to question the situation. It may have been a total fuck-up. But we have relatively little information, and now everyone is filling in the blanks with their preferred narrative, and giving everyone who picks a different one the stink-eye. Myself included.