Posted on 12/29/2008 6:38:57 PM PST by Shellybenoit
Much of the Mainstream Media coverage of Israel's offensive in Gaza have been littered with the usual stupidity. With typical statements, like "tit for tat," or "cycle of violence." the media has done its best to find a moral equivalence between the Hamas terrorism and Israel's attempts to prevent that terror. Those same newscasts that show all of the destruction in Gaza very rarely showed the Horrors of the Negev Communities such as Sderot.
The media even uses noble sounding adjectives for Hamas like DEFIANT. But Israel is described as seeking revenge. Perhaps the worst show of media bias so far, was the AP's story about yesterday's IAF bombing of Islamic University. Israel bombed a weapons lab at the University, but the AP said it was an Israeli strike targeting the schools women's wing:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Dear yidwithlid, if you check your links, I think you are terrific.
The (leftist pro-Arab, against Israel and anything American) press reminds me of an aging maiden lady school marm who scolds the bully and his victim equally, thinking herself wise and fair as Solomon...
Goebbles’ children carry on his tradition...
In most of these types of stories, one can probably substitute liberal for Pali and conservative for Israeli and see exactly what the Left is trying to pass off as news - propaganda, pure and simple.
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