De Israelische Terreur 7

Het immer dappere Israelische leger treedt hier kordaat en heldhaftig op tegen deze levensgevaarlijke Palestijnse terroristen. De Palestijnse chirurg Tariq Shadid schrijft: 'Media Silent when Palestinians Die. The relative media silence about the recent Israeli military onslaught in the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, is playing straight into the hands of Israeli occupation politics. This is nothing new. It has been common practice in Western media, throughout the history of Israel, to pay significantly more attention to violence from the Palestinian side than the other way around, and to portray Israel as a democracy that is simply protecting its citizens. Because of the media’s uneven representation, few are aware of the fact that Israel has killed 31 Palestinians since January 25th, when Hamas was elected. However, it is quite likely, that this past week of Israeli violence, in which 8 Palestinians were killed and over 50 wounded, has not been marginally reported in the media as a sheer coincidence, or out of force of habit. While the operation against Balata constitutes the largest Israeli military operation since the highly publicized ‘Gaza disengagement’, the press remains virtually silent about the issue, reporting about it sparingly. If Hamas, which has been observing a unilateral truce for over a year now, would choose to respond to this aggression, it is highly unlikely that the media would maintain the same level of silence. In fact, any Palestinian retaliation, even if done by other Palestinian resistance movements, would discredit Hamas in mainstream Western media, accusing it of inability or unwillingness to exercise control, regardless of whether it is currently in a position to indeed influence the actions of other Palestinian factions. With this military aggression aimed mainly at the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, instead of at Hamas itself, Israel is displaying its mastery of Machiavellianism, increasing pressure upon Hamas from other Palestinian factions to respond in a satisfying way. During the rule of Fatah, Israel often applied the same tactics, also assisted by Western media by underreporting the Israeli attacks that preceded the Palestinian retaliation, and highlighting the Palestinian response on the front pages of all major newspapers. In this way, Israel was able to vilify the late Yassir Arafat among Western audiences, bringing him down from a position of Nobel-prize winning respected politician, into being seen as the main cause of the lack of advancement in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and even as someone who ‘harbors’ terrorists.' Lees verder:http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=022706203809 Lees meer over de tendentieuze pro-Israel verslaggeving: http://home.planet.nl/~houck006/israel.html