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Posted on Jul 31, 2006

The FAIR organization reminds us that Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel, though deplorable, did not spring from a vacuum. Drawing on an Alexander Cockburn column, FAIR notes that within the last two months, Israeli attacks on suspected militants ended up killing almost two dozen innocent Lebanese and Palestinian women and children.

As FAIR notes, the traditional media outlets paid almost no attention to these deaths, but gave enormous play to the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. In large part because of such practices, many in the Arab world think Americans consider Arab lives to be of less value than Israeli lives.


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In a July 21 CounterPunch column, Alexander Cockburn highlighted some of the violent incidents that have dropped out of the media?s collective memory:

Let’s go on a brief excursion into pre-history. I?m talking about June 20, 2006, when Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at a car in an attempted extrajudicial assassination attempt on a road between Jabalya and Gaza City. The missile missed the car. Instead it killed three Palestinian children and wounded 15.

Back we go again to June 13, 2006. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a van in another attempted extrajudicial assassination. The successive barrages killed nine innocent Palestinians.

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By bibi, August 1, 2006 at 5:09 am Link to this comment
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Mel was right….the Jewish state sponsored by our terorist nation, the USA are behind the rebellion around the globe. You can kill some of the people some of the time, and torture many people many times, but you can’t kill and torture all the people all the time….or can we?????????

Lie after lie…..and nothing changes.

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By Ga, July 31, 2006 at 7:31 pm Link to this comment
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If journalists have been told by Israel for more than a year that a war was coming, why are they pretending that it all started on July 12?

It need to be faced: too many “journalists” are incompetent or just plain stupid or… something.

What is totally sad about this is that, as The NonSequitur (http://thenonsequitur.com/) points out so thoroughly, the most heard from pundits in this country are factually (and logically) wrong so often.

Opinion and speculation and assumption—many times false—is what American Mainstream Journalism has become.

Most Americans do not know modern history let alone general history… history of wars and conflicts, of science, philosophy, medicine, etc.

Most Americans are just plain ignorant of the world they live in.

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By Spinoza750, July 31, 2006 at 2:13 pm Link to this comment
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Everyone who wants to know this knows this!

It is all a question of what you want to know.  The people in the media have to know what is going on.  They knew that there were no WMD in Iraq just as I knew it. They know that it is not likely that North Korea has an atomic bomb capacity as I know it.  I just read the papers like they do.

It is only a question of what you want to know and how it fits into the ideology you want to espouse.

Ideologically the USA and Israeli governments are fascist bordering on Nazi. We therefore get the spin that our enemies are everywhere and the government has to protect us.  Of course their policies create enemies everywhere and therefore, -see-, they were right.

We should want to create a reality to make possible an ethical culture.  We might first have to fight a war against the fascists.

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