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Monday, April 23 2007Straining a "Ceasefire"?At what point do Palestinian terror and missile attacks constitute a breach of a "ceasefire"? See HonestReporting's latest communique: Straining a "Ceasefire"?
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Straining a "Ceasefire"?: CommentsWhat people don't seem to remember is that the Hamas "cease fire" is not an expression of any benevolence on their part. It is the direct result of targeted assassinations which decimated their leadership. The "cease fire" now represents the maximum amount of violence that they can get away with. Any fool that knows anything about what is going in the middle east knows that Hamas and Fatah have been breaking the ceasefire continuously. In reality there has been no ceasefire. When Israel responds you post articles that Israel is Straining a Ceasefire!! What a JOKE!! You have lost all credibility in the news world. Get back on track and report all the facts, not just the ones you want to. ISRAEL NEEDS TO HIRE THE BEST PUBLIC Why don't you similarly advise the international media on a continuing basis. If they fail to properly report at least you have something to measure their reporting. Their failure to do so should then be reported on a world-wide basis. Hamas does not recognize Israel because it does not recognize Israel's right to exist. The Palestinian Arabs by voting Hamas agreed that genocidal extermination of the Jewish Nation is their purpose. As long as the Paestinians stand united behind Hamas,the support of the Palestinians in the non-Muslim World is nothing but antisemitism by proxy. I am all for your petition: "We urge our readers to look beyond the pages of their local newspapers and keep abreast of the actions that Palestinian terror organizations continue to attempt against Israeli civilians. Links to Israeli newspapers, organizations and other information resources can be found on our Essential Links page." But I would like you to add another petition: this one is for honoring reporters trying to present the true facts about Israel in unfriendly and even hostile suroundings. A case in point is Spain, where, in line with European socialists, it is politically correct to castigate Israel, both in official acts or in Radio-Television Espanola. Their reporters refer to terrorist acts as dids of freedom fighters, and in blatant cases where that would sound or look ridiculous, of "milicianos" (undefined and nonpeyorative). In such dark an environment we have a beacon in Pilar Rahola, publishing in Spanish in "El Periodico" of Barcelona, or in Catalan in "Aviu". It would be nice to publicly recognize Pilar Rahola (www.pilarrahola.com), and others like her, for her indefatigable defense of the right of Israel and the Jewish people to exist and defend themselves. What about the BBC on this issue? In the following excerpt from a BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6581465.stm "Truce Israel and Palestinian militants have observed a truce since November, although Israel has launched some raids, and militants in Gaza have fired some rockets into Israel. The Israeli army says the ceasefire still holds but the government says it still has the right to take defensive measures against rocket attacks. The militant Islamic Jihad group has said it will not adhere to the truce while Israel continues to carry out raids in the West Bank. " Now I don't think it's rocket science (no pun intended), but there's a thing called 'cause and effect' operational here. If the Palestinians keep lauching rockets into Israel, then Israel has a duty to try and prevent them. reading the above excerpt one wouldn't know which came first. What's the meaning of 'some' rockets? Is it 2 or 3, 20 or 30, 200, I'm no journalist but it took me 10 minutes to get the figure for 'some. From the MFA website http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Victims+of+Palestinian+Violence%20+and+Terrorism+sinc.htm In 2006 alone a total of 1726 Kassam rockets were fired into Israel, an average of nearly 5 a day. This is what the BBC call 'some'. I don't know of any occasion where Israel launched a raid into Palestinian territory without it being in retalliation for an attack on themselves. It's only because the BBC run idiotic themes like these that militants bother to state "The militant Islamic Jihad group has said it will not adhere to the truce while Israel continues to carry out raids in the West Bank." What truce? Stop the rocket and terrorist attacks and there will be no more raids? How much sense does one need to work that out? Apparently more than the BBC has, when it doesn't want to know. The LA Times always uses "crude" to describe the Kassam rockets, just as they always use "militants" for "terrorist actions" (like firing rockets at civilian populations. My hunch is that AP does the same. Since reporters don't know whether crude or non-crude rockets are being fired, or whether there us any lethal difference between the two categories,it is clearly biased reporting to use "crude" just as it is biased not to characterize "terrorist actions" as "actions by terrorists". That media bias perpetuates the fraudulent rationale used by terrorists and their supporters. When it comes to breaking the Ceasfire... well I live in Canada, most people here do not know the truth about the middle-east. As the most culturally diverse nation on the earth (even more then the USA), we are also the most ignorant nation of what is going on in Isreal, except for our Jewish people. We have the most biased Newspapers in the world! All other people and races usually side with what is put out by the propaganda mills of the large Newspapers and it is so weird to hear people buy into it. It use to be said that we the Jew control the banks and the Newspapers, now its the Oil Nations that control public opinion! Good luck in changing world opinion, it never will happen, but we should never stop from tyring to make it happen! Let us never forget! Just a quick note to say, that as someone who understands the fragility of the situation, it is imperative that a site such as honestreporting.com upholds vigorous standards of accuracy, so as it can be seen to promote understanding of the conflict rather than being just another glossy biased mouthpiece. So, if the incidents during April are supposed to sway anybodys opinion, then they should not have occured two months ago, as in the link "Islamic Jihad terrorist captured near Tel Aviv after his bomb belt fails to detonate." It is slightly misleading, especially for a campaign which is aimed at media accuracy. This isn't a manifestation of media bias. See here: http://politicalpoints2ponder.blogspot.com/2007/04/palestinian-cease-fire-and-media.html It's positively nauseating the way the media "report" events from the Middle East. Whenever Israel retaliates (to my mind, not nearly enough) against the senseless "Palestinian" violence, Israel is always named as the one responsible for "imperiling the Mideast detente" (according to my local paper), or being the cause of the breakdown in the so-called "Road Map to Peace." The Arabs seem never to be the cause of anything, they always manage to have some nonsensical "reason" for their violence - pity the poor Arab, so "downtrodden" by Israel and the West, lands "occupied" by those Israeli "aggressors". It's time for a reality check, folks! Todah HR. My reply to ap.org was this: You may continue to twist the news to favor your Islamic friends but you should remember, ot take note, as you may not not even know, that like Bolsheviks Hamas just sees people like you as "useful idiots". Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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