Monday, August 07, 2006

The myth of the European media anti-Israel bias

I am in London and spend all night looking at SKY, BBC and CNN. Their coverage all night was primarily reflecting the killing of Israeli reservists (in uniform) on the way to the front and the three civilians killed in Haifa under the rocket barrage.

This morning they reported the death of 14 Lebanese civilians from Israeli bombing.

I don't think they ignore any deaths, they are in it for maximum effect (with rave style music). While Israeli supporters form the US can read articles from (http://standwithus.org/news_post.asp?NPI=938) Jonathan Cook based in Nazareth writes that it is Israel not Hizbullah that is deliberately targeting civilians (http://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0268.htm#Top) but this is not mainstream press.

For a centrist view, read The Times of India, a major Indian publication, no friend of the Muslims extremists (remember Mumbai bombings) . . . and they write what the world sees and the world is not on Israeli side but the reason is not anti-semitism but disproportionate Israeli response in civilian death (750 vs 90) and destroying Beirut completely and thoroughly. It is time for Israel to grow up and accept the reality that they are the regional super power and that they lost their underdog(we are fighting for our survival!) status in 1982 . . . except in the US.

In the mainstream US press nobody will touch the special Israeli-US relationship (To Israel with Love), however the London Economist has done a good coverage on this here.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7255198

also, for history buffs (and not David Lean's CinemaScope) here is a refresher course on the Suez crisis (also by the Economist, which is most definitely right of center), and how a better American President put a stop to an unjust war, quickly.
http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7218678

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