Number 28 4th January, 2015
Is it because I am getting older that the years seem to pass by so fast? It seems like only yesterday that we stumbled on the giant step which took us from the twentieth century to the twenty first! Yet, with all that changes, some things seem to never change.
For years many have had the feeling that Israel is being held to a double standard in particular when defending herself against threats of annihilation from her neighbours and acts of terrorism from within. Proportionality is a word which is constant bandied about.
As in “less than a hundred Israelis died in the last Gaza war compared to more than a thousand Palestinians” omitting the fact that there would have been thousands of Israeli casualties had not Israel and America invested millions of dollars to perfect the Iron Dome”. But proportionality is never mentioned when recalling that Israel exchanged one thousand convicted terrorists for one Israeli held captive by Hamas.
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We, who are conditioned to believing something must be true because we saw it on the “reputable” TV news channels or read it in the liberal press, find it difficult to believe that the media can be deliberately biased against Israel while championing the “double standard” mantra in its reporting.
Follow the links to see what two veteran reporters reveal.
Mark Lavie is reporter for AP, NPR, NBC, and CBC and author.
Matti Friedman is a former senior AP reporter.
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The manner in which the massacre of four elderly rabbis while attending morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue and the subsequent murder of a Druze policeman who came to the aid of those under attack was reported by the media is an excellent example of this bias.
See some of the distortions of CNN, BBC and NYT
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And to end, follow the link to a bit of humor.
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