Post's Moore is Less.....Reports Half the Story About Hebron IDF Exhibit

Post correspondent Moore doesn't break silence....she breaks the code of journalist ethics.

From www.andrewsullivan.com see these pictures JIHADIST KIDS PLAY BEHEADING: Yep, it gets even more depressing.

The link is to the video of the beheading of the Korean hostage and to Muslim children play at beheading.

A video located today on Sheik Abu Hamza's website, www.shareeah.org, features four children, doing what as children the world over do: pretending.

But what is completely unnerving about this video is what they are pretending.

One young boy kneels in front of three other children, in the same manner of the condemned man; Three other children stand behind him in the same way that the terrorists stood over the men prior to their beheading. The three standing children are armed with pretend weapons. One of the three children is a girl.

The tallest of the three standing children pretends he is Zarqawi, and reads a list of demands.

The film clip ends with the pretend beheading of the kneeling child.

Chilling.

Now look at the photos of the exhibit of alleged mistreatment by the IDF and Hebron settlers that Moore finds so arresting and you decide where the real mistreatment is.

Of course, guess which photos get the Post's coverage.

The immediate problem in Moore's coverage is that she nowhere states that the IDF is investigating the allegations under court order or that the IDF is under order to question the exhibitors and confiscate pictures and videotape that could help the investigation.

Even the AP mentioned the court order for gosh shakes..and they're no friend of Israel.

Read this

"The army said it summoned the soldiers for questioning and issued a court order Wednesday that they hand over any material that could assist the investigation."

To give balance to the coverage, the AP reports that:

"Those who put together the exhibit allegedly committed the mistreatment while soldiers and therefore fall under the auspices of the military court system, a military official said. The investigation is based on "testimony of those involved and eyewitnesses."

"The army teaches its soldiers to act morally even in complex situations," a spokeswoman said. She refused to confirm Tuesday's raid.

The army initially welcomed the exhibit, but said the soldiers should have complained about the situation to their commanders while they were on duty."

In contrast, the Post implies throughout the article - by using the unsubstantiated allegations of the organizers who are themselves the target of the investigation - that the IDF "interrogated" the organizers to silence them, then repeats the organizers unsubstantiated allegations of mistreatment committed by the IDF and settlers, while portraying the Palestinians as harmless and innocent.

Here Moore, without regard for balance, quotes one IDF soldier, "The bride is crying, the father of the groom is really begging," he continues. "You see on their face how they are anxious about the most significant day in their life. On the other hand, I can see the deputy commander looks at them and does not see them as humans."

The subtext of subjournalist Moore's broad strokes, is that the IDF and the hated settlers routinely mistreat the struggling peasants of impoverished Palestine and are now silencing the witnesses.

Indeed, if I were not so committed to fairness, I would say that Moore looks at Israelis and does not see them as human....but hey, how could I know that?

Here are her opening three sentences and again notice the juxtaposition of the military's substantiated statement (substantiated by the unmentioned court order) with the organizers unsubstantiated allegation that the IDF is trying to silence the exhibitors.

Read the entire article to feel the experience of the full slander.

Military police on Wednesday interrogated three Israeli reserve soldiers who organized an exhibit of photographs and videotapes chronicling mistreatment of Palestinians by troops and Jewish settlers.

A statement issued by the military said the three men were ordered to provide testimony as part of an investigation into the "allegedly violent crimes against Palestinians and damage to Palestinian property" depicted in the show.

"The army wants to keep us quiet and scare us away," Micha Kurz, 22, said after what he described as seven hours of questioning by investigators. "They're not going to shut us up, because we have a lot to say, and they're not going to scare us off."

She then makes this assertation:

"In one of the most arresting pictures, two stick-wielding Palestinian boys play a game of "hands up," pretending they are Israeli soldiers lining up four other Palestinian children, including a female toddler in a pink suit, against a wall. An Israeli soldier stands nearby, grinning, an assault rifle cradled in his arms. Another picture shows settler children ripping down the brick wall of a Palestinian shop."


'Breaking the Silence' on West Bank Abuse
Israeli Soldiers' Exhibit Depicts Mistreatment of Palestinians by Troops, Settlers in Hebron

By Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, June 24, 2004; Page A17