Same old story - Israel slaughters Palestinians, but the U.S. media pretends it didn't happen:
117 Palestinians killed, hundreds injured during media's "relative calm"
by Ali Abunimah
electronicintifada.net
<<< ... In an extraordinary act of forgetfulness, a New York Times report by Richard Bernstein and Greg Myre declared that "The suicide bomb attack in Petah Tikva broke a tense sort of relative calm that has existed on both sides since October" (26 December 2003). But just a few paragraphs above this sentence, the same article reported that "Less than an hour before the suicide attack, Israeli gunships fired missiles at a car in Gaza, killing a commander of Islamic Jihad, who Israeli officials said was planning a 'mega' attack inside Israel" (emphasis added). The report also stated that four others were killed including "two bystanders" and 14 people were injured.
Not only did the Times forget what had happened just an hour before the Petah Tikva bomb, it had apparently wiped from memory a report by the same Greg Myre on 24 December, headlined "Israelis Kill 8 Palestinians in Raid on a Camp in Gaza." According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), a total of nine Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack on Rafah refugee camp about which Myre reported. Among the 37 injured, eight were children, and 116 families were made homeless ... >>> |
