Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Anne Barnard from Gaza

I have to say, that Anne Barnard's article from Gaza is not bad in itself.  In fact, there is an attempt to depict life of the civilians there. But if you read it carefully, you will find inserted in the text various qualifiers and explanations that seem to have been inserted by the foreign editor to make thins more slanted for Israel. Like: "after the Israeli military warned of impending attacks there" and "The attacks followed the largest and most far-reaching campaign of rocket fire into Israel yet carried out by Hamas and other Gaza militants. " and "although several people have been injured and millions have sought refuge in bomb shelters. " and "Hamas, which had killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings".  The last one is my favorite because imagine if every time Israel is mentioned in the article it is followed with this addition:  "Israel, which had killed tens of thousands of Arabs in various terrorist attacks, etc".  So those phrases and sentences basically dilute the content of the article and ensures that the ultimate messages serves Israeli propaganda.