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To: Ilaine who wrote (5978)	10/18/2001 10:20:23 AM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 281500

) Now that the United States has had a taste of terrorism, which has afflicted Israel for decades, you'd think no one the U.S. media would describe killing a terrorist as "murder" and would cease employing derivatives of "cycle of violence," which morally equates the actions of terrorists and their victims. But on Wednesday night, NBC's Tom Brokaw did just that in reporting on the assassination by terrorists of an Israeli cabinet minister. Brokaw referred to the perpetrators as "militants" and relayed their claim that it was payback for "Israel's recent murder of one of their leaders," before he lamented how the incident could escalate "the cycle of revenge." The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which Israel believes is behind recent deadly car bombings, claimed responsibility for killing Rehavam Zeevi, though Brokaw mentioned neither the group nor the minister's name in his short item. Brokaw announced on the October 17 NBC Nightly News: "Whatever hopes the United States has about peace in the Middle East are a good deal dimmer tonight. Israel's tourism minister was assassinated today by Palestinian militants. Revenge, they say, for Israel's recent murder of one of their leaders. The fear now: that the cycle of revenge will only escalate in that part of the world." Let's hope Brokaw does not describe the killing of Osama bin Laden as a "murder" which will "fuel the cycle of revenge." mediaresearch.org