Below is an article on the Itamar massacre by the BBC. Note how it buries the atrocity amid their overall thesis about Israeli settlements.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12725487
The BBC is an obviously biased news organ. Would it not be more appropriate to report the absolute horror of what happened? Would it not be more appropriate to report on the sheer hatred that Palestinians in the West Bank are taught from birth to feel toward Israelis and Jews.
The dispute over land and settlements cannot explain how one or more persons could slaughter an entire family as they slept including a child, a toddler of three, and an infant of three months. No. The reason goes deeper. Even though PA leader Abbas has condemned the killings, it is a fact that the people in the West Bank are subjected to a steady diet of Jew hatred coming out of the mosques, the schools, and the media. Children are watching cartoons depicting Jews as evil monsters that must be killed. These children are being trained in Jihad by the time they can walk.
What else can explain this type of sick mentality?
The BBC article is a disgrace to the name of responsible journalism.
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Gary, I don't think we can ever understand the human mind. I have to admit that I grew up in a household where the persecution of Jews was totally justified, and when I finally saw the first Jewish person in SF, my jaw dropped because she looked like a "real nice person".
As a young bride in SF I stood outside my home, when a group of young children came by showing me their homework, noticing my accent they asked me where I was from, after I told them they shouted "You are German, you should be shot, you should be killed". Too much Rat Patrol and Hogans Heroes I guess.
Thank God and my Nazi parents I never harbored any hatred for any race in all my life, in fact was always drawn to people of different cultures.
Oh please, Gary, quit pretending to be incensed over bias in the news media. Why don't you just admit that you're perfectly okay with bias, so long as it conforms to your views. Hence, your love of Fox News.
This was a perfectly reasonable article that placed these horrific events in their proper context. No need for the emotional appeals that you seem so interested in inserting into the news.
Here is almost the exact same story from Fox News.
Not much difference, the Fox News article is just longer and wordier. Guess they're a bunch of anti-Semitic Israel bashers too, huh?
Anonymous,
You need to do your homework when it comes to the BBC.
Gee, I can't argue with that.
Why not actually respond to everything I just said?
Anonymous, Just put your head back in the sand and pretend it never happened.
The truth of the matter is that you just got bested by me, so you have no response. So instead all you can offer are flippant little remarks.
Anonymous,
Your problem is that you choose to ignore the story. This was an unspeakable atrocity and you say nothing about it.
I'll make you adeal. I will concede the Fox Story is not much different from the BBC story. You concede that this was an unspeakable atrocity committed by savage barbarians and that any Palestinian who celebrates this act is aligning himself or hewrself with the barbarians who committed it.
I await your agreement.
Anonymous,
PS: The Fox story came from Associated Press.
Did you not see in my earlier post where I referred to the murders as "horrific events?" Of course I agree with you.
Ingrid,
I can appreciate that you have a unique perspective on this. As you well know, before one can do horrific things to a group of people, they must first be demonized so as in the mind of the perpetrator, they are not killing real human beings.
That demonization, much like Julius Streicher's Der Stuermer, is occurring again in certain quarters.
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