Lots of sad news from Israel and Palestine today. I really need to stop taking breaks from the most important blog ever, because it seems as though when I do, there's inevitably some bad news to talk about the next day.
The coverage over the weekend of the escalating violence in Israel and Palestine will be incorporated into this project shortly. Over the weekend, about a half dozen people were killed in Israeli airstrikes, and the US media did report on this horrific turn for the worse. For now, though, we'll focus on today's events.
Today's events include the discovery of a murdered Israeli settler near Ramallah in the West Bank who (according to the Israeli authorities) was killed by Palestinians in a politically motiviated hate crime (or terrorist act if you prefer). This story has not appeared on the front page of any of the US media websites we monitor, so this marks the second time we've noted that the death of an Israeli at the hands of Palestinians has gone unnoticed in the United States.
In other news today that has not been widely reported in the US -- the Israeli military continues to wage a multi-pronged aerial assault on the Gaza Strip. Over the weekend, several people were killed by these attacks. So far today, some serious injuries but no casualties have been reported. We're monitoring the situation.
In the US, today's most widely covered news is not the battering of Gaza by Israeli jets and helicopters, but instead the news has focused on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's success in fending off a political challenge from within his own party. More on that when we finally publish our long-awaited treatise on the Gaza withdrawal method.
Full bias proejct details are here.
The coverage over the weekend of the escalating violence in Israel and Palestine will be incorporated into this project shortly. Over the weekend, about a half dozen people were killed in Israeli airstrikes, and the US media did report on this horrific turn for the worse. For now, though, we'll focus on today's events.
Today's events include the discovery of a murdered Israeli settler near Ramallah in the West Bank who (according to the Israeli authorities) was killed by Palestinians in a politically motiviated hate crime (or terrorist act if you prefer). This story has not appeared on the front page of any of the US media websites we monitor, so this marks the second time we've noted that the death of an Israeli at the hands of Palestinians has gone unnoticed in the United States.
In other news today that has not been widely reported in the US -- the Israeli military continues to wage a multi-pronged aerial assault on the Gaza Strip. Over the weekend, several people were killed by these attacks. So far today, some serious injuries but no casualties have been reported. We're monitoring the situation.
In the US, today's most widely covered news is not the battering of Gaza by Israeli jets and helicopters, but instead the news has focused on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's success in fending off a political challenge from within his own party. More on that when we finally publish our long-awaited treatise on the Gaza withdrawal method.
Full bias proejct details are here.
This is but a symantical note. Casualty means both injuries or deaths that occur during a given situation. Thus if there were serious injuries there were in fact casualties, just not fatalities.
Casualty n.: Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
Casualty n.: Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.