From what I see (on TV5 and RFI that I get by satellite) their news coverage is far, far, more sympathetic to the Palestinians than what we see here in the US.
They do mention suicide bombings, but the other day I had RFI on and there was coverage after coverage bleating about how hard life was for the Palestinians with the usual litany of stuff about genocide, ethnic cleansing, refugee camps, yada, yada, yada, you'd think it was the worst thing happening on the planet to hear them.
Well, it isn't. If the West wasn't on that stupid Saudi oil teat, the whole piss-shit mideast territorial conflict wouldn't get a minute of air time. Just look at the genuine refugees in Afghanistan for an example of people who are really suffering. And I don't have to mention much of the stuff in sub-Saharan Africa. Pre-Intifada Palestine would probably be paradise on earth for many of those people.
It's all the usual double standard. OK for the US to bomb the daylights out of Ossama's "summer camp", a little collateral damage in some country people could barely locate on the globe before 9/11, no problem....
But god forbid Jews should defend themselves. |
