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How Media Coverage Favored Hezbollah
frontpagemag.com ^ | 04-25-2007 | Ira Rifkin

Posted on 04/25/2007 1:06:00 PM PDT by bedolido

For all its firepower, Israel’s military is at a disadvantage fighting Hamas and Hezbollah because internationally accepted rules of military engagement hamstring democratic nation-states battling non-state terrorist groups. This is true even when terrorists show utter contempt for all standards of human decency and engage in wanton killing — a sign of how ineffective the rules of engagement are in today’s era of asymmetrical warfare.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: coverage; favored; hezbollah; media

1 posted on 04/25/2007 1:06:04 PM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido

The Israelis have to tell the media to drop dead - literally. They won’t survive by being “nice” to the terrorists or the moronic reporters.


2 posted on 04/25/2007 1:13:47 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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To: bedolido
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?

An LGF reader who worked for Associated Press TV News sent me the following article explaining how APTN works, and suggesting a reason why their coverage of the Middle East is so overwhelmingly biased against Israel:

Go to the link and read the whole thing. It outlines how the media had been corrupted by ME money.

3 posted on 04/25/2007 1:17:29 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: sageb1

bookmark


4 posted on 04/25/2007 1:24:15 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: bedolido

I hate to say this, but the solution is to make a few of the more biased reporters disappear. The others will get the message. This strategy sure works for the terrorists.


5 posted on 04/25/2007 3:12:40 PM PDT by rbg81 (1)
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