Another Gaza article from my school...

So the Pitt News published another article today about the war in Gaza written by a different staff writer Jason Myers. The article was much better then the one written on Friday, clearly, the writer makes a better effort to give both sides of the story, but there were still some things I have to mention.

First, in the second paragraph, the writer compares two things that shouldn't be compared. He says that Chabad House believes in that validity of Israel's aggression towards the Palestinians, but then he goes on to say that the Muslim Student Association and the Students for Justice in Palestine argue that Palestine has a legitimate claim to the Israeli territory. From reading this, it seems as if the writer asked these groups different questions, why is he asking the Muslim and Justice in Palestine groups about the "legitimate claim to Israeli territory"? He should be asking them about the current offensive to make his comparison of the different groups valid.

After that the writer gives a good synopsis of what the New York Times has been saying this whole time, however, when he tries to give an opposing view, by questioning Magid Shihade, he did not go in-depth enough about her views to make it a valid counter point. For example, he could have asked her what specifically where those "unnamed news sources" and he could have asked her to explain what Israel did to break the ceasefire, such as the tightening of the blockade (the blockade in general is Illegal in inhumane) and the November 4th and 17th bombings that killed several Palestinians.

Also, the writer mentions Miller's assertion that it is part of Jewish understanding that you are supposed to love your neighbor, it would have been more comforting for me to see him explain that this is also something deeply rooted in Islam as well, any Muslim could have explained that to him.

Finally, I have to disagree with Pitt professor Goldstein, who says this is all over a piece of property. Let me just explain that it is not over a piece of property, this is over justice, the Palestinian people want the right of return, and to live in a comfortable setting, that's it. It doesn't matter whether it is one state or two (most Palestinians support a one state solution where all can live together like Jonas Moffat said). Finally, I think Goldstien should stop with the phrases such as "you guys have to cut this crap out." Lets not act like we are morally above anyone, after all, we are the nation that "pre-emptivaly" bombed the crap out of a country that posed no threat to us (Iraq).

All in all, this article was better then the last one that was written in the Pitt news about this but there were still a few things I had a problem with.