Press Coverage Of Move To Daylight Saving: Israel Steals Hour From Palestinians

“Yet another manifestation of the oppression of Israeli Occupation.”

Tel Aviv, March 13 – International media continued its customary framing of Middle East events today when reporting on the “spring forward” changing of the clocks this week by calling the onset of the “summertime clock” in the Jewish State an act of depriving Palestinians of sixty minutes of the day.

“Israel Takes Entire Hour Away from Palestinians,” read the Reuters headline, while the Associated Press proclaimed, “Palestinians Struggle Under Netanyahu-Imposed Truncation of Morning Daylight Hours.”

Al Jazeera devoted an entire six-minute segment to the travails of Palestinians suffering as a result of the onset of Daylight Saving Time in Israel. The segment went into close detail about the challenges “the Resistance” faces, in particular the need to ensure that timers on bombs aimed at Israelis explode at the scheduled time and not, as has occurred at least once in the last thirty years, prematurely and fatally for the bomb’s planters.

Columnists in The Guardian called the annual phenomenon “yet another manifestation of the oppression of Israeli Occupation.” Owen Jones characterized this year’s instantiation of Daylight Saving Time in Israel as “a harsh reminder that Palestinians face genocide not just of their people, but of their very sense of orientation in the world as Israel brutally targets all their foundations of coherent human experience, among them time.”

Guest opinion columnist, British Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lammy, dismissed observations that the hour gets “restored” in the fall when clocks are reset to standard time. “The Palestinians exiled in 1948 do not settle for mere compensation in kind,” he noted. “Addressing the legitimate grievances of the people of Palestine requires the full dismantling of Zionist power structures, not mere real estate arrangements. Here, too, a simple readjustment of the clock each October does nothing to remedy the trauma, the displacement, and the chronologic cleansing. A full undoing of Zionist time offers us the only way to rectify this historic injustice perpetrated year after year after year.”

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins called on the international community to punish Israel for depriving Palestinians of an hour of morning daylight – even if that hour now occurs in the afternoon or evening instead. “The disposition of Palestinian hours is not for Israel to decide,” he intoned. “The United Nations and the global powers must unite to enforce Israel’s compliance with basic norms, which it has flouted for far too long, and suffered no adverse consequences. At the very least, we must withhold, uh… all the watches we export there? Someone help me out. What does Ireland produce?”

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