Day by day the appalling, unbalanced media reporting on the Middle East ensures the conflict continues without Israel being held to account for its institutionalised racism, violence and brutality meted out against Palestinians who are apparently expected to just accept it face down.
Take a minute to read this excellent blog and consider why we are served up so much Israeli apologist rubbish instead of balanced, unbiased news reporting.
Why is so much of the Palestinian suffering never considered newsworthy?
An urgent request to the news media
Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz
Right now Israeli-Occupied East Jerusalem is much in the news because of the sudden eruption of violence by Palestinian youngsters venting their anger and frustration. These young people have grown up under Israeli military occupation, in an imposed atmosphere of contempt and oppression that was not of their making. The news media have the responsibility to present as balanced a view as possible.
Just to take the past week alone, if the news of the Palestinian violence had been equally balanced with news of Israeli Army and settler violence, then most of the news broadcasting time, and several pages of newspaper columns, would have been devoted to the appalling violence suffered by Palestinians. All we ask is that more attention be paid to context and balance. Why is so much of the Palestinian suffering never considered newsworthy? Some very recent examples:
27 Palestinians killed, 1400 injured and 400 taken prisoner so far this month alone (13 October). http://icj.einnews.com/article/291313623/s8_Iw2iPO9V2q0LR
In Israeli-Occupied East Jerusalem: 15-year-old Hassan Khaled Mahayna killed by Israeli forces: ambulance held up deliberately: Video. The boy’s cousin, Ahmed (13), was also seriously wounded as settlers scream “Die!”. Watch as a number of people stand around and do nothing to help the injured boy. One even pushes him with his foot! An ambulance is forced to move away!
Pregnant woman and child killed – family injured – home destroyed:
Ceasefire violation – air strike – 2 dead – 4 injured: Gaza – 10 October 02:05, Israeli war planes carried out two air strikes on the al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, destroying a home and killing a pregnant woman, Nour Hassan, and her two-year-old child, Yahya Hassan, injuring four other members of her family: Mohammad Hassan (5), Yahya Hassan, Najah Rasmi, and Mohammad Hassan.
http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2883&Itemid=44
Escalating tear-gas deployment against schoolchildren in Hebron.The onslaught began at 7:41 am when a crowd of children could be heard playing noisily in the street near several primary schools. Suddenly their laughter turned to screams and the sound of running and gunfire as the first canisters were shot and could be seen flying over the crowd with their white streams of gas.
http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/escalating-tear-gas-deployment-against-school-children-in-hebron/
Settler shoots 5-year-old boy.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/israeli-settler-shoots-five-year-old-palestinian-boy-750452
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – hijacking: Northern Gaza – 05:00, the Israeli Navy opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats, took prisoner two crew members, Mohammad Al-Nu’man and Jihad Kaskin, and hijacked the boat. http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2872&Itemid=44
Year after year! In September Israel destroyed 46 Palestinian homes.
As a reminder:
The Fourth Geneva Convention
Security Council Resolution 446 (22 March 1979) affirmed once more that the Fourth Geneva Convention was “applicable to Palestinian land, including Jerusalem, occupied by Israel since 1967”. The Resolution also determined that “the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories . . . have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East”. This Security Council Resolution strongly deplored the failure of Israel to abide by UNSC Resolutions 237, 252 and 298, as well as General Assembly Resolutions 2253 and 2254. The Resolution specifically condemned any attempt by Israel to materially affect the demographic composition of territory occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem in particular, and to desist from undertaking any transfer of parts of its own civilian population into occupied Palestinian territory.
The source and cause of all the violence and instability is Israel’s determined drive to change the “demographic composition” of Jerusalem. The solution has to be respect for and enforcement of international law. Witness for truth – end the Occupation.
I suspect you’ll find those who disagree with you’re position just have a better grasp on history. Simple as that. I await with interest your list of acts of violence and terror against Israel. Anytime soon?
Lies, Mosquitobite, allegations and more lies, combined with lying and telling lies.
I will recommend that the National party reduce your pay for this work. If already on a zero hour, zero pay contract, they can bill you for further tarnishing their already precarious reputation.
So you believe that the Polish people of 1945 were attacking Germany? That they were firing rocket after rocket into another countries sovereign territory? That they denied Germany’s right to exist, and elected a government that were a terrorist organisation who called for the destruction of Germany? Interesting.
[Sandfly, you have email. Please respond to my request. – ScarletMod]
We’ve already gone over your inaccurate view of history mcfly
Perhaps is Israel stopped subjugating the Palestinian people; stopping seizing land it has no right to; tore down The Wall; lifted the blockade on Gaza; and withdrew it’s settlements from the West Bank – then there might ber peace.
Your support for Israel is like those who waved and cheered the entry on Nazi tanks into Austria in Match 1938.
Maybe those poor nazis were hard done by as well by those aggressive horridly Poles, Austrians, Czecks, Greeks, French, etc, etc, etc, etc…
Stop supporting the aggressor, Sandfly. It is pitiful.
When you get a grasp of reading comprehension you will see that John said the MSM will tell of any so called terror attacks against Israel but never mention the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians. While I don’t wish the Israelis any harm they need to learn to live with the other nations & stop living in the past.
Totally agree with you John these Zionist scumbags don’t care about International Law and were caught out before Russian Airstrikes for Drilling New Oil wells in the Golan heights of Syria which is against International Law and Israel is also a Weapons manufacturing nation that test it weapons on the weak Palestinians so much for the principles of the bible murdering scumbags!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0gHND9bTc
Supreme Apartheid is their law and they are the stars of the story and the media who believe their bullshit
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