Media Bias Outrage of the Week - Murderous Victims

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media ^ | 05/01/2002 | Peacerose

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Murderous Victims

04/29/2002
Three Palestinian teenage boys, carrying bombs and knives for the purpose of killing Israelis, were themselves killed by Israeli forces as they ran toward an Israeli settlement. Undoubtedly the residents of Netzarim, in central Gaza, were relieved that the attack was stopped. Yet as Dan Rather and Peter Jennings tell it, these boys are victims.

Rather led into the April 25 story on CBS Evening News this way:

"Israeli soldiers killed seven Palestinians today in Gaza and the West Bank, but many on both sides are stilled stunned by the deaths Tuesday of three victims too young to die for any cause."

Reporter Mark Phillips went on:

"Of all the recent funerals here, this may have been the scariest. These would-be suicide bombers were shot dead near an Israeli settlement in the Gaza strip. That's not unusual here. What's frightening is that two of the bombers were 14 and one just 13 years old. They'd come from the generation that's grown up throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. But some of these kids have now been so radicalized, they're attacking Israelis with crude pipe bombs, axes, and knives…the cult of the martyr has been so glorified here and the repression of the Israelis is perceived as so odious, that the kid's reaction seems almost inevitable."

"Many people here have argued all along that this Israeli operation would merely create the next generation of suicide bomber, but people on both sides of the line here have been shocked that next generation would start so young."

Notice how quickly the reporter places the blame on the Israelis. No mention of the Palestinian Authority, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, or other "role models".

Peter Jennings, the pro-Palestinian anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, was not to be outdone. Here is his lead-in to the same story:

"There was a very significant funeral in Palestinian Gaza this week for three boys who were killed by the Israelis. The fact that they were so young - the boys - has been particularly disturbing to Israelis and Palestinians both."

To hear Jennings talk, you'd think the boys were on their way to the candy store. Reporter Gillian Findlay continued the story, mixing sweet personal details of their lives with the tale of their deadly plan. She ended her story with this thought:

"Today the classmates of those three boys remembered their friends as heroes. 'Rest in peace,' was the chant. 'We will continue the struggle.'"

It is unnerving to see individuals labeled as victims when they sustained injury or death in the act of trying to kill or injure someone else first. Such twisted logic has no place in a news story. If you agree, the contact information is below.

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Thanks to TomGuy for much of the above.

MORAL CLARITY
An honorable, moral solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Isn't the only honorable way to "solve" the Arab-Israeli conflict through the use "ethnic cleansing?" (And by that term I mean the polite, but forceful removal of all 3 million Pali from Eretz Yisrael -- which is not "genocide", as some on the Left misuse the term.) Let me explain.

The current wave of "suicide" bombers (a misnomer, since their primary goal is not suicide but the mass murder of civilians) is unprecedented and unrelenting. But it should not be unexpected. It is the direct (and obviously planned) result of brainwashing that started with Pali children as young as kindergarteners. Look at the faces of the babies in the pictures above. What vomitous horror - visiting this upon their heads. What unspeakable evil.

The Palestinian descent into barbarism does not have some dimly-lit origin. The homicidal-bombers are not some unforseen phenomenom that sprung forth from the "hopelessness" of the populace (as the PA "leaders" would have us believe). They are part and parcel of the war machine created by the PA to wreak systematic havoc on Israel. Someone paid to have the Pali youth trained -- or more accurately, brainwashed -- in "martyrdom". Someone paid to have the explosives acquired and the bombs made. Someone paid to have surveillance put on weak spots in Israeli defenses. Someone paid to have these weapons stored and then distributed to the homicidal-bombers. Someone paid to have videotapes made of the bombers' farewell messages. Someone paid to have these homicidal-bombers transported across security lines. Someone paid to have the deeds of the homicidal-bombers favorably publicized. Someone paid the family tens of thousands of dollars specifically for the "martyrdom" of their children. And, as we are now learning, those paymasters include Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Saudi elite.

The PA has not been preparing its people for peace, but radicalizing them for the sole purpose of destroying Israel. The PA has appointed militant clerics who preach hate and "martyrdom". By doing so, they have knowingly turned this into a religious war, one in which compromise is heretical. And in doing so, the Palestinians have rejected the Oslo premise that the conflict is about borders, about which compromise is required. Indeed, as Henry Kissinger has noted:

In reality, the number of Palestinian leaders... who want peace in the Western sense -- as a point after which the world lives free of tensions with a consciousness of reconciliation -- is minuscule. The fundamental schism is between those who want to bring about the destruction of Israel by continuing the present struggle, and those who believe that an agreement now would be a better strategy to rally forces for the ultimate showdown later on.

The result of Arafat's strategy of hatred is now known: Pali society cannot co-exist in peace with Israel. Recent polls tell the story clearly. Over 87% of the Palis support the murder of Israeli men, women, and children, even babies. Given these numbers and the underlying religious fervor, there is NO POSSIBILITY of a negotiated settlement that would be honored by the Palis within their lifetime. Arafat has filled the Palis with visceral hate to prepare them for unrelenting war. He has brainwashed an entire generation of youngsters to become terror-bombers. He has unleashed almost 10 years of official "judeo-nazi" indoctrination on the Pali people. Arafat has committed crimes not only against the entire populace of Israel, but against Palestinians and their children as well. Truly, these are Crimes against Humanity.

Current conditions make ethnic cleansing not only justified, but morally required. As antithetical as it sounds to liberal ears, ethnic cleansing is literally the only humane solution. To pursue a negotiated settlement is akin to locking a tiger and a human with a gun in the same cage. Assign the roles to whomever you wish, but the result is the same. Someone in the cage is eventually going to be killed, maybe both.

The world community's role in this to date has been to create this inhumane spectacle, this caged, semitic death match. The world community's response going forward ought to be the equivalent of an "Allied invasion of Nazi Germany" because nothing less will suffice to rid the world of this monstrosity. Eject all Arab peoples from Gaza and the West Bank (because once you eliminate the terrorists, their supporters and their families, virtually nobody is left). Then round up the PA "leaders" (including "clerics" and "teachers"), and put them on trial for their Crimes against Humanity. If they are found guilty, hang them in public.

And to the extent that this PA policy was conducted, funded, supported, promoted, or otherwise enabled by their Arab bretheren (notably Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) then it is incumbent upon these countries to pay for their sins by taking in the Palis. Arabs created this mess. Let Arabs bear the toll for the human misery they created.

Even Tom Friedman of the New York Times has come around, finally grasping the global ramifications of Arafat's evil:

"...all they [the Palestinian leaders] can agree on is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build... Let's be very clear: Palestinians have adopted suicide bombing as a strategic choice... This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber... with a nuclear device threatening entire nations."

What is needed is the elimination of this cancer on humanity. End it quickly before more innocent lives are lost. End it now or it will escalate to Weapons of Mass Destruction. End it clearly and with finality so that there is absolutely NO ambiguity that civilization finds this abhorent. If nothing else, as a sop to liberal sensibilities, end it for the children. Moral clarity demands nothing less.

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Shocking pictures! Thank you so much for posting them.

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Thank you Peacrose very much for the flag and the article.

There is an ongoing thread in progress right here concerning ABC's plans to cover the one year anniversarr of 9/11.

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[Ancesthntr]

Thanks for posting this article.

I said when this story broke that the only reason the Pallies were upset about the deaths of these 3 kids was that they had failed to kill any Jews. I'd lay heavy odds that the reaction would've been different if they went on a killing spree before being killed. That would be, BTW, the same reaction these very same terrorism supporters had every other time some of their little ones blew themselves up.

Regarding media bias, stories like this one are just further reinforcement of my decision to never watch any of the major networks or read the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. I get my news from Fox News and FR, with commentary by Rush and similar-minded people. Where possible, I verify stories from the original sources. I also advise everyone I know to switch away from the biased media to a more objective source like Fox.

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Well, I got this reply: I'd kill them, just like the Israelis did. Nobody reported that was the wrong move on Israel's part, we reported that the insanity keeps spreading and getting worse. It DID include the facts about the weapons the teens were carrying. We even said in the piece they were inspired by this insane martyr culture that surrounds them. Did you see the report, or did someone just take one sentence out of context and tell you about it? Thanks for writing, Jim Murphy, Executive Producer, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

I asked him "what would you do if some kids with bombs were about to kill your family?"

[Landru]

And they just re-upped ol' Danny Boy for how many more years?

~sigh~
Sounds as if someone *likes* what they've seen with ol' DannyBoy, eh?

..."Mr. Jensen" -- is that you; again.

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"Arabs created this mess." bttt!

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Let me add that I made the mistake of saying to CBS that they did not mention the weapons. I apologized to the guy for being wrong about that but that I did think it was told in a sympathetic way to the palestinians and he was actually very nice. I agreed to think about what he said and he agreed to think about the conservative claim that the news has a liberal slant and we left it at that. Nice guy really.

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Regarding media bias, stories like this one are just further reinforcement of my decision to never watch any of the major networks or read the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. I get my news from Fox News and FR, with commentary by Rush and similar-minded people. Where possible, I verify stories from the original sources. I also advise everyone I know to switch away from the biased media to a more objective source like Fox.

Exactly.

The media- press and entertainment- are a biased, bitter mockery of themselves. Get you own news via the 'net and talk radio.

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"I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the question "1". After much reflection I put a bracket round it thus "(1)". But thereafter I could not think of anything connected with it that was either relevent or true." - Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930.

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The CBS brass said "As long as Dan wants to work in television, he has a home here at CBS."

Those people are either so blinded by leftist ideology that they don't care about their plummeting ratings, or else they just still don't "get it".
Meanwhile, they can continue to cater to the low-2-digit IQ crowd.

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Bump for the cause.

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"Kind hearted people might... think there was some ingenious way to disarm and defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, [but] pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed." - Karl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832.

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Ping.

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[Landru]

"Those people are either so blinded by leftist ideology that they don't care about their plummeting ratings, or else they just still don't "get it"."

Of course, you might be absolutely correct...

However consider the times we live, today.
The day-&-age of the MBA, P&L micro-managing, franchising images backed up by performance projection equations.
People who're detailing the Nth degree of whateverinthehell the suites decide requires the maximizing of profits/control/affect/influence; and, for reason(s) known only to them.

Methinks the brass-asses at SeeBS know exactly what they're doing.

Now you, I & others who've for one reason or another seen the light may not agree -- may even have just cause to dispise & fear the buggers for what it is they've done, & are doing; granted.
Nonetheless, *dumb* they're not.

Here's why I'd be thinking this way; and, using your next statement as a springboard to my conclusion...

"Meanwhile, they can continue to cater to the low-2-digit IQ crowd."

True.
But don't pooh-pooh the imbeciles comprising the, "low-2 digit IQ crowd" too much, my compatriot friend.
That *crowd* you speak of?
Look closely...it ain't no crowd, a'tall.
They're an army; if only judged by the sheer numbers, huh.
They'd sure make a formidable army, at that; if under the direction & influence of someone -- or something?
Yea...

The sea of automatons will faithfully march to whatever's fed 'em by that Lamestream, too; of which SeeBS is an integral part.

Moreover, stir 'em up enough -- get 'em all worked in a nice frothy lather?
They will, & without hesitation, move against any & all who they're being told might be or is mocking 'em, too.
That could be, concievably, us.

SeeBS; *one* of this large army's *creators*?
Hell's bells; if this army of their's moved against those they'd subdtly, subliminally directed 'em to go crush?
Why ol' SeeBS would have created *News*!!
Found *something* to report they could sell, eh?

Cantcha just see it now?
SeeBS leading-off their broadcasts for a month of Sundays straight -- framing their army of empty-headed nitwit *warrior-automatons*, "victims"?
Until finally, everyone believed it wasn't a mob, a'tall; but rather, "patriots who'd finally had enough!"
(...witness the Palestinian situation? {g})

Understand from the get-go: the truth is, & will always be, precisely what SeeBS says the truth is going to be.
No more; no less.

"Power" like that is (IMO) then defined as, having access to a whole bunch of empty heads at one time. :o)
Isn't the power these nets wield, at the core of the "business" SeeBS & those of their ilk ply?

...they're certainly not interested in the welfare of us or our families; & surely, not the welfare of our nation.

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You have convinced me. Your analysis is right on target.
To further bolster it, PMSNBC is now running ads on other networks (I saw it on Fox last night) which tout their news coverage and analysis as "balanced" and "without an agenda". While the ink is still wet on their Phil Donahue contract.... methinks they doth protest WAY too much. The low-2-digit IQ army must first accept their false premise that they are "without an agenda", so that they can then be duped by the rest of the leftist drivel to which they are about to be subjected.

You and I are essentially in complete agreement on this one.