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One of my contentions is that when Palestinians are killed as a result of Israeli actions, the US mainstream media almost never reports the story, but when Israelis are killed as the result of Palestinian actions, US media nearly always reports the story.
Unfortunately, today we have two tragic Palestinian deaths to report that have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream US press.
According to the CBC and Ha'aretz newspaper, a Palestinian girl named Rahma Abu Shamas, aged either 3 or 6 years, died as the result of gunfire from Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army insists that they were responding to Palestinian attacks at the time, and they claim to be investigating the death of the girl. Also today, in the West Bank, a Hamas activist was killed by Israeli troops and two other men were injured. Ha'aretz reports that the Palestinian group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is threatening to void the recent agreement for "calm" because the Israelis engaged in this operation.
None of the US news websites we monitor has a headline about these stories on the front page. We'll again count these two seperate incidents as just one story, and the tally of stories about Palestinians killed by Israeli actions that go ignored by the US media we monitor increases to 3.
We have yet to notice a tragic story about an Israeli death caused by Palestinians that has not been mentioned by the US media in a headline on the front page of the sites we monitor.
For full disclosure, I'll note that two US stories mention the death of the girl despite having "upbeat" headlines. The New York Times story, headlined "2 Sides in Mideast Resume Public Meetings" notes the death of the girl. CBS's headline reads, "Mideast Peace Picks Up Momentum". I suspect that if Israelis had been killed today, these headlines would have noted 'setbacks' to the peace process. In fairness, CBS notes that the "relative calm of the past week" was "marred" by the killing of the young girl today. This "relative calm" refers obviously to the killing of Israelis, because the past week has seen the tragic deaths of several Palestinians, as we have reported here.
CNN's headline, "Israeli Sources: Targeted Killings to Stop" leads to a story that makes no mention of the deaths.
No headline on the front page at all: MSNBC, FOX.
Headline tally remains unchanged, 2-2. Photo tally also unchanged at 3-2.
One of my contentions is that when Palestinians are killed as a result of Israeli actions, the US mainstream media almost never reports the story, but when Israelis are killed as the result of Palestinian actions, US media nearly always reports the story.
Unfortunately, today we have two tragic Palestinian deaths to report that have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream US press.
According to the CBC and Ha'aretz newspaper, a Palestinian girl named Rahma Abu Shamas, aged either 3 or 6 years, died as the result of gunfire from Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army insists that they were responding to Palestinian attacks at the time, and they claim to be investigating the death of the girl. Also today, in the West Bank, a Hamas activist was killed by Israeli troops and two other men were injured. Ha'aretz reports that the Palestinian group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is threatening to void the recent agreement for "calm" because the Israelis engaged in this operation.
None of the US news websites we monitor has a headline about these stories on the front page. We'll again count these two seperate incidents as just one story, and the tally of stories about Palestinians killed by Israeli actions that go ignored by the US media we monitor increases to 3.
We have yet to notice a tragic story about an Israeli death caused by Palestinians that has not been mentioned by the US media in a headline on the front page of the sites we monitor.
For full disclosure, I'll note that two US stories mention the death of the girl despite having "upbeat" headlines. The New York Times story, headlined "2 Sides in Mideast Resume Public Meetings" notes the death of the girl. CBS's headline reads, "Mideast Peace Picks Up Momentum". I suspect that if Israelis had been killed today, these headlines would have noted 'setbacks' to the peace process. In fairness, CBS notes that the "relative calm of the past week" was "marred" by the killing of the young girl today. This "relative calm" refers obviously to the killing of Israelis, because the past week has seen the tragic deaths of several Palestinians, as we have reported here.
CNN's headline, "Israeli Sources: Targeted Killings to Stop" leads to a story that makes no mention of the deaths.
No headline on the front page at all: MSNBC, FOX.
Headline tally remains unchanged, 2-2. Photo tally also unchanged at 3-2.
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