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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (765)	11/29/2001 7:11:53 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Sharon: Seven Days of Quiet Already A Compromise Position (IsraelNationalNews.com) Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday stated the government’s demand for a seven-day period of quiet, a total cessation of attacks, as a prerequisite to the resumption of negotiations, is already a compromise position. He explained that originally, Israel was demanding ten days but is now willing to settle for seven. The prime minister added that in accordance to the Mitchell requirements, there must be an absolute cessation of terrorist attacks, adding on that point, there would be no compromise.

To: Scoobah who wrote (765)	11/30/2001 2:38:32 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

HonestReporting Communique 29 November 2001 "REUTERS' OVERSHADOWING BIAS" * * * Dear HonestReporting Member, HonestReporting occasionally receives letters of thanks from high school teachers who use HonestReporting materials to teach students about media bias and how to be a critical news consumer. We therefore acknowledge Reuters, one of the largest news agencies in the world, for publishing a textbook example of media bias this week. The Reuters' article, "US Envoy Urges Israel, Palestinians to End Violence," was filed by Mohammed Assadi from Ramallah on Nov. 28, shortly after Palestinian suicide gunmen had sprayed machine-gun fire at Jewish shoppers in the northern Israeli town of Afula, killing 3 and wounding 50 others. In the fourth sentence, Reuters reports that Zinni's "talks with Israeli leaders Tuesday were overshadowed by the deaths of three Palestinian gunmen and three Israelis." Incredibly and unconscionably, Reuters lumps together the death of terrorists and their innocent victims. Would Reuters similarly include Mohammed Atta and his al-Qaida colleagues in the World Trade Center casualty list? Afula, significantly, is within pre-1967 Israeli boundaries -- a fact left out by Reuters. The attackers were said to have come from Jenin, the Palestinian town that IDF troops had been guarding and had pulled out of only hours before due to international pressure -- a key fact omitted by Reuters. And, as reported by Associated Press and others, one of the gunmen was actually a member of the Palestinian Authority police force -- an extremely significant fact left out by Reuters. Further, throughout the report, Reuters adopts wholesale use of Palestinian/Islamic lexicon and code words: 1) In the article's second sentence, Reuters goes out of its way to note the extraneous detail that Zinni was at "the traditional meal to break the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan." 2) In noting the funeral of a Hamas terrorist who had shot dead an Israeli woman, Reuters glowingly quotes the Hamas faithful, while even invoking the original Arabic phrasing: "Izz el-Din al-Qassam vows to avenge the blood of Osama. Your blood will not go in vain." 3) Reuters refers to "the deaths of five boys blown up by an Israeli bomb last week" -- but fails to mention that the deaths were accidental, that the boys were never targeted, and that Israeli officials expressed remorse over the incident. 4) Reuters peppers its phrasing with highly-charged anti-Israel rhetoric like: "Sharon has given no signs of ending an internationally condemned policy of tracking and killing Palestinian militants." 5) And of course, in describing those who sprayed machine-gun fire at civilian shoppers in Afula, Reuters eschews the word "terrorist," favoring instead the candy-coated "militant." Reuters employs reporters like Mohammed Assadi, Ammar Awad, Atef Sa'ad, and Nidal al-Mughrabi, who may have a built-in partiality toward the Palestinians. As experts have said, these reporters obviously identify emotionally and politically with the intifada and, in the "best case," simply avoid anything that could embarrass the Palestinian Authority. All this calls to mind the words of BBC's Gaza correspondent in Gaza, Fayad Abu Shamala, who told a Hamas rally on May 6, 2001: "Journalists and media organizations [are] waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people." Read the Reuters article at: reuters.com If you feel Reuters' coverage is biased, write to: editor.reuters@reuters.com jerusalem.newsroom@reuters.com stephen.jukes@reuters.com Or call the Reuters Jerusalem Bureau at: (972-2) 538-6372 or 537-0502