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Thursday, March 26 2009Daily Telegraph's Twisted HeadlineThe IDF released updated casualty stats from the January Gaza war. According to Haaretz, the army lists 1,370 fatalities overall, which include:
This prompted a very twisted headline in the Daily Telegraph: In reality, 189, while tragic, is a very small number when you consider that a large percentage of Gaza's estimated population of 1.4 million are children. Had the IDF had indeed attacked civilians targets indiscriminately in the densely populated strip, the stats would show a sharply higher percentage of kids among the overall casualties. But the majority of casualties are among men of fighting age, suggesting that even when accidents happened, the IDF was actually deliberately targeting its fire rather than indiscriminately blasting away.
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Daily Telegraph's Twisted Headline: CommentsThis Daily Telegraph article, though too short and not detailed enough in my opinion,is one of the few in national press to deal with the latest war crime libels in a fair and balanced way - despite the "twisted headline". Since this latest orgy of Israel-bashing was largely started by Israeli leftist post-/anti-Zionists, within and outside the media, you would do better to put together a long and detailed study of Haaretz - most of whose journalists dealing with the conflict write about it in a thoroughly dishonest way - instead of getting unduly worked up by misleading headlines. P.S. The latest article by Isi Leibler, posted today on http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=1586 is absolutely required reading - "Jewish Blood Libels". It is time for Haaretz and hypocritical defamers of the IDF like Zamir to be restrained by the fear of regular libel actions. Someone like the respected lawyer Trevor Asserson should be asked to get involved in an initiative of this nature. |
