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| melech_mike |
(funny how my last honest reporting thread was deleted by the MODs without a trace.... perhaps they saw something they didn't like:rolleyes:... whatever the reason, here it is again.)
Honest Reporting is an organization set up to counter media bias against Israel available at honestreporting.com. It seems as though many media outlets have dropped they're standard of reporting when it comes to reporting on whats happening with Israel.
Many false accusation have been put forth by the media, and irreversable errors have been sent to print.
The Palestinian Authority shouldn't have launched they're PR war so soon, it seems as though the media is still in the middle of theirs against Israel.
In recent days the IDF has stepped up activity in Gaza, launching pinpoint strikes against known Hamas terrorist leaders. On Saturday, Ibrahim al-Maqadma, 51, a Hamas founder and active head of its "military wing," was eliminated by a pinpoint helicopter strike against his vehicle.
The Associated Press -- the world's most broadly syndicated news agency -- employs reporters Hassan Fattah, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ibrahim Barzak to cover activities in Gaza. The following two AP dispatches reveal a palpable bias:
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On March 6, AP tried to downplay the necessity of IDF activity in Gaza: "One of the Israeli goals is to stop the rocket fire. Palestinians have been firing primitive, homemade Qassam rockets from northern Gaza at the Israeli town of Sderot. Most of them miss their target, and those that land cause little damage with their small explosive warheads. No one has been seriously injured by a Qassam rocket, but Israel's government is determined to stop the attacks."
Yet as illustrated on the CNN website
(http://honestreporting.com/a/r/355.asp), the Qassam 2 rocket is anything but primitive. With a payload of up to 11 pounds of explosives, a range of over 6 miles, high mobility, and the potential to deliver non-conventional warheads, the missile constitutes an extremely serious threat. Given the close proximity of many Palestinian regions to Israeli citizens, the proliferation and deployment of the Qassam 2 must be addressed with utmost seriousness by any responsible Israeli government.
The ongoing, unhampered firing of Qassams into Israel (see
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020217/world1.jpg) breaches a fundamental defensive barrier, regardless of the low accuracy that
presently characterizes a Qassam salvo. To suggest, as AP does, that
Israel is unwarranted in defending itself against this new airborne
threat, is at the very least an unwelcome insertion of the author's
opinion into an ostensibly objective report.
Regarding the innocuous nature of the Qassam 2, perhaps AP would profit from a discussion with Sderot's Sima Naamat, the mother of one-year-old Shilo Naamat, who sustained injuries from a Qassam rocket that required two surgical procedures to repair broken bones this past Wednesday night.
As Ms. Naamat stated regarding her infant son, "I found him lying in
blood, full of pieces of shrapnel" (see http://israelinsider.com/channels/s...es/sec_0212.htm). This latest attack was by no means an isolated incident: For over eight months, residents of the Negev town of Sderot -- which lies inside the Green Line -- have been the target of ongoing Palestinian mortar shelling and rockets.
The fact that the Qassam rocket may be assembled in a residential building -- thereby rendering it "homemade" -- in no way lessens its deadliness, or the escalation it threatens to bring to the conflict. AP's Hassan Fattah would have the world believe otherwise.
Read the AP article at:
http://honestreporting.com/a/r/356.asp
Comments to:
[email protected]
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Two major events occurred in the 24-hour period between Friday evening and Saturday evening: the aforementioned IDF helicopter strike against Hamas leader Ibrahim al-Maqadma, and a deadly terrorist attack against Jewish residents of Kiryat Arba that left the parents of four children dead at their Shabbat table.
In a not-so-subtle imbalance, Associated Press
(http://honestreporting.com/a/r/357.asp) allots the first 780 of its 890 words to the IDF strike and its political implications, stressing continually the revenge demanded by local Palestinians for the elimination of the Hamas leader. No fewer than six irate Palestinian responses are quoted, including condemnations from the Palestinian Authority, Hamas spokesmen, and Gaza street demonstrators.
Only those readers who wade through to the end of the piece are informed -- inaccurately and without meriting even the devotion of a complete sentence -- that "on Friday Hamas gunmen killed two Jewish settlers when they infiltrated the West Bank settlement Kiryat Arba and opened fire on settlers gathering for prayers."
In fact, American-born Eliahu and Dina Horowitz were gunned down while quietly enjoying their Shabbat evening meal in their own home. Five others were injured -- including a woman who remains in serious but stable condition -- by the Horowitz' murderers, who dressed up as Jewish yeshiva students to gain entry to the area.
In addition, AP attaches gruesome details only to the Hamas leader's
death, which turned his car "into a smoking skeleton and scatter[ed] body parts along a Gaza road." An earlier version of the AP story
(http://honestreporting.com/a/r/358.asp) adds a macabre eyewitness quotation: "'I was about to open my shop when suddenly a helicopter came from the sky,' said Abdullah Ali, 60, a grocery shop owner who was covered with blood from the strike. 'I saw legs and hands fly in the air and then suddenly I fell down on the ground.'"
No such dramatics accompany the coverage of the anonymous Horowitz', who receive merely the deprecating modifier "settlers" twice. We can assume there was no shortage of witnesses to the post-shooting scene at the Horowitz home.
To the eyes of the world, Jewish terror victims are left faceless, and the Israeli army is a provocative instigator of the fuming Palestinian mass.
Such were the past 24 hours in Israel, in the AP's official account.
Again, comments may be submitted to:
[email protected]
What happend to the Associated Press's objectivity?
Why employ 3 Arabs to do your 'unbias':rolleyes: reporting of whats happening with Israel. There are obviously personal agendas presented here through the AP, who have in recent months been bashed from they're unbalanced perspective of world affairs. |
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| Blik |
| quote: | Originally posted by melech_mike
that left the parents of four children dead at their Shabbat table.
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| Mental Exodus |
| They probably killed your thred cuz there sick of all this arab jew conflict stuff. I think there trying to cut back on the flame. |
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| melech_mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blik
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
whats up with that?
you think its a joke that 4 kids will be growing up without parents?
you think its a joke that while this family was sitting down to eat friday night meal, they were executed?
why the are you rolling you in eyes? |
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| Mental Exodus |
| Again there trying to cut back on flame. |
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| melech_mike |
| quote: | | Again there trying to cut back on flame. |
flame... what am i posting that has 'flame' in it?
How the do you know what they are trying to do, have they updated you and no one else?
I'd like to ask you not to post ignorant comments like this, you do not know why it was originally taken down, and no excuse from you will justify they're actions. It's up to the MOD who took down the thread to justify why it was taken down to the rest of the forum!
I dont want this thread to be all up in flames, i simply want TA's to see the inequality of media coverage that is so prevalent around the world today against Israel. |
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| Mental Exodus |
| quote: | Originally posted by melech_mike
flame... what am i posting that has 'flame' in it?
How the do you know what they are trying to do, have they updated you and no one else?
I'd like to ask you not to post ignorant comments like this, you do not know why it was originally taken down, and no excuse from you will justify they're actions. It's up to the MOD who took down the thread to justify why it was taken down to the rest of the forum!
I dont want this thread to be all up in flames, i simply want TA's to see the inequality of media coverage that is so prevalent around the world today against Israel. |
hmmmmm.....
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&threadid=92583 |
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| melech_mike |
What does that have to do with my thread in particular... ?
Why was my thread selected out of the whole lot that are available on this forum?
My last 'Honest Reporting' thread had very little flame in it if any.
Your last post proved/showed nothing to me! |
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| Mental Exodus |
| quote: | Originally posted by melech_mike
What does that have to do with my thread in particular... ?
Why was my thread selected out of the whole lot that are available on this forum?
My last 'Honest Reporting' thread had very little flame in it if any.
Your last post proved/showed nothing to me! |
1.) The link shows why your thred "might" have been trashed in my opinion.
2.) I dont know why your thred was selected ask the mods.
3.) I dont think the history of your threds matters in this case. Again its my opinion.
4.) CHILL OUT MAN....... its just a thred. It might be about Isreal and everything but its still just a thred. |
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| Blik |
| quote: | Originally posted by melech_mike
whats up with that?
you think its a joke that 4 kids will be growing up without parents?
you think its a joke that while this family was sitting down to eat friday night meal, they were executed?
why the are you rolling you in eyes? |
By that one little sentence I quoted you can see the source is bias.
Why aren't the kids from those killed Palestinians mentioned? probably because the reporters don't give a about it
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| Cyrus King |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blik
By that one little sentence I quoted you can see the source is bias.
Why aren't the kids from those killed Palestinians mentioned? probably because the reporters don't give a about it
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Melech-mike.. you just got raped!
Blik.. i actually thought that myself when i read it |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
| quote: | Originally posted by melech_mike
you think its a joke that 4 kids will be growing up without parents?
you think its a joke that while this family was sitting down to eat friday night meal, they were executed? |
this is all very tragic.
i think what people are implying is that it's calluos to just mourn for the victims of your side. |
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