Jerusalem is seething. There’s been violence on both sides in the last two days. But here’s the lineup on CNN today:
Alan Dershowitz
Israeli ambassador to the U.N., Ron Prosor
Israeli spokesperson Mark RegevIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to follow.
Hey @cnn, how about having a Palestinian on to answer Dershowitz? Oh right, this is how it works.
Has @cnn had any Palestinian guests on today?
On a daily basis Palestinians face the violence of Israeli occupation & my phone is silent. When Israelis face violence, media calls all day.
Original post, headlined, “You have to go 13 paragraphs in ‘NYT’ to find out it wasn’t only Jews who died in Jerusalem lately”
The New York Times has a thorough piece of reporting up this morning on the Palestinian attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue that killed four Jews. But you have to get well into paragraph 13 to learn this:
But there were celebrations after the attack in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, and other Palestinian leaders praised the attack as a response to what they see as a threat to the holy site [the Al Aqsa mosque], and to the recent death of a Palestinian bus driver in Jerusalem. Relatives and friends of the driver, Yousef al-Ramouni, who was found hanged in his bus Sunday night, insisted he had been lynched by Jews, though the Israeli police said an autopsy on Monday ruled that his death was a suicide.
Palestinians are saying that al-Ramouni was lynched. Even Haaretz questions the suicide finding. And al-Ramouni’s death resulted in unrest in East Jerusalem neighborhoods, which have already been clamped down on by Israeli border police. You’d think that a more balanced account would appear in the American newspaper of record. But for the Times, Jewish lives count more than Palestinian ones. This extends to the Times’ lackluster coverage of the persecution of Palestinians in Jerusalem neighborhoods like Silwan and Issawiya.
Update: Chemi Shalev of Haaretz says that a Hebrew report at NRG makes another connection:
NRG links synagogue attack to July murder of Palestinian teen Abu Khdeir: father of perpetrator prays there
As usual the NYT the mouthpiece for Israel propaganda, has failed to report this in a realistic and objective way. Even CNN’s report was horribly slanted, and no emphasis on the bigger picture, the attacks on Palestinians, deaths, and the desecration of Mosques, which is part of the on going violence, and where BOTH sides are guilty of various crimes. It all seems one sided according to CNN too. Chris Cuomo like his brother Andy seems to want to please the zionists.
I wish they would not drag out Lying Regev and Israeli first Dershowitz at times like this.
Ayman Mohyedin, on MSNBC just gave a more balanced report, making sure to mention that this is on ongoing problem, and that tensions have been worse lately.
Just saw a video on CNN regarding the attack in the synagogue. At the very end of the 1:30 report there is maybe 10 seconds of “the attack is the latest in a string or raising violence . . .” that really doesn’t do justice to the true situation.
It’s doubly sad. Sad for the killings of innocent people, and sad for the way this story is being played out in our media, absolving Israel of any responsibility in bringing such violence to their doorstep.
Netanyahu? The settlers? The occupation? No. The story begins with these killings and whatever Israel does in reaction to them is OK.
Sad & infuriating.
Just for once I would like to hear someone in the media say that perhaps if Israel ended the occupation, and stopped the damn illegal settlements, there would be an end to this violence.
The Palestinians have to be given their rights, as they are losing not only lives every day, but their lands and resources too. The occupier cannot expect these people to stand still for years and take this disgusting occupation with a smile. Not going to happen.
I don’t see the point in asking Palestinians to condemn the killings.
Israel doesn’t give a fuck about non Jewish life in Erez Israel and if some Palestinians feel the same way about Jews, I’m very sorry but what do Israelis expect ?
Is condemning the deaths of innocent Jews going to change the dynamic?
Is it going to stop the hatred taught to Jewish kids or is it going to wake Sabras up ?
Of course not.
I heard a paraphrase of Abbas’s statement this AM on NPR. He didn’t even mention the apparently routine and frequent (and unjustified) use of SKUNK water against Palestinians as a method of out-and-out oppression (not connected with “security”).
Bet it would be reported in USA if skunk spray were used against Jews in Greater Israel (by whomever)!
Abbas should enumerate the long litany so that, just perhaps, American and European audiences would understand the grievances here.