It’s not getting any better as we have yet another report of a Palestinian man being killed by a missle fired by an Israeli aircraft in Gaza today. The man allegedly was “on his way” to fire homemade Qassam rockets from Gaza into Israel. Here is how the US media is covering this tragic new development.
CNN: Palestinians: Israelis target militant car
NYTimes: New Israeli-Palestinian Violence Puts Truce in Doubt
MSNBC: Israel kills another Palestinian militant
The CNN headline, note, demotes the news to only hearsay from Palestinian sources. The NY Times headline doesn’t mention any specific deaths or place any blame, it just notes that “violence” threatens the cease-fire. The MSNBC headline directly attributes today’s violence to the Israelis. The MSNBC headline counts in our tally of this kind of headline, and the other two count as headlines that do not specifically assign blame.
Images. MSNBC:
Caption: “Palestinian police and locals surround the wreckage of a car that was hit by an Israeli missile in the Gaza Strip on Friday. A Palestinian militant was killed. Ali Ali / EPA via Sipa Press”
CNN:
Caption: “Palestinians examine a car destroyed by an Israeli missle strike Thursday near Gaza City.”
Both count in our tally of images showing Palestinian suffering as a result of Israeli violence.
Full project details and tallies here.
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1 Laslos Mardus // Oct 29, 2005 at 3:36 pm
“ARTICLE 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly the right to self-determination.
ARTICLE 20: The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void. Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood. Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong.
ARTICLE 22: Zionism is a political movement organically associated with international imperialism and antagonistic to all action for liberation and to progressive movements in the world. It is racist and fanatic in its nature, aggressive, expansionist, and colonial in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is the instrument of the Zionist movement, and geographical base for world imperialism placed strategically in the midst of the Arab homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab nation for liberation, unity, and progress. Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis peace in the Middle East and the whole world. Since the liberation of Palestine will destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence and will contribute to the establishment of peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian people look for the support of all the progressive and peaceful forces and urge them all, irrespective of their affiliations and beliefs, to offer the Palestinian people all aid and support in their just struggle for the liberation of their homeland.”
–Official PLO/Palestinian National Charter
2 Erik // Jan 2, 2006 at 4:20 pm
The PLO Charter, which has no legal standing in the Palestinian Authority, is irrelevant. First of all, even if every single Palestinian in the world was dedicated to the annihilation of Israel (which, of course, they are not), it wouldn’t matter. Palestinians are virtually powerless — witness their throwing of rocks and desparation of blowing themselves up. Palestine has no ability to destroy Israel.
The vast majority of Palestinians and Israelis simply want to live in peace. The extremists — including the one commenting on this blog — are the problem, because they see no way out other than the total destruction of their “enemy.” This kind of thinking is clearly not constructive.
I invite comments suggeting a way forward in the conflict. The comment here does not advance our discussion at all.
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