Down the Memory Hole
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 (more).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.
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...FAIR:
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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