Tuesday, July 20, 2004

The missing part of the story

I would like to add a bit to Bob's excellent Media Alert re Monday's article "...Seven Shattered Dreams" - a truly unbelievable piece of ugly propaganda.
 
While continually referring to the Palestinian-Israeli "conflict", Moore never tells her readers what the conflict is about, leaving them to assume that it is about the occupation of the West Bank.  But it isn't!  The "conflict" is part of a 56-year-old attempt by Mideast Arabs to destroy the state of Israel - to drive it into the sea- and Israel's attempts to defend itself.  These men whose "dreams were destroyed" were fighting for terrorist organizations whose goal is to kill Jews and take over the state of Israel.  (If you don't believe it, just try to find Israel on the Palestinian maps.)  Yet this underlying cause of the conflict, its raison d'etre, is not divulged!
 
And how about the photo caption describing Sabagh as "the shyest and most withdrawn...  Israelis destroyed his home in 1992"?  Don't you want to cry?  But if you read far enough in the text, you will find that Sabagh is a car thief who used to beat up his teachers and throw rocks at them.  Some sympathetic character!
 
Finally, I note with irony that when Hatchet Molly finds it necessary to cross over to the "Israeli side", she writes an articles like the June 24th one about an exhibit by a small group of Israeli soldiers protesting Israeli "oppression" of Palestinians - the leading example of such oppression being the turning back of a wedding party during a curfew.  That's what the Post considers "the Israeli side" - not sympathetic stories about Israeli victims, such as the 4 people killed and 40 wounded by one of the poor boys in this article whose "dreams were shattered".
 
Really, it's enough to turn your stomach.

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