Do you know what you never see in the Washington Post? A story like this about the many victims of palestinian suicide bombs. Although the last paragraph in the quote was a surprise.
“You see the sadness everywhere,” said Rawda Hamad, 40, one of scores of women in enveloping black gowns who had gathered at the burial site. “And violence will bring violence.”
As the mass funeral unfolded, Palestinian leaders compared the Beit Hanoun shelling to the Israeli airstrike that killed at least 28 civilians in the Lebanese town of Qana this summer. Meanwhile, Israelis debated what appeared to be another military mistake, with reaction ranging from abashed to unapologetic.
The Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem has called for a war-crimes investigation. A prominent Israeli journalist, however, attributed the incident to unabated Palestinian rocket fire into Israel, arguing that “such behavior carries a price tag.”
“When you fire rockets, shells fall,” wrote Ben Caspit, a senior columnist for the daily newspaper Maariv. “When one of them strays it is a shame, it is disastrous, it is bad, but that is how it is. Every other method has been tried, and failed. With scoundrels, you behave like a scoundrel, and with murderous, bloodthirsty terrorism that wants to wipe you off the map, you have to respond accordingly: Wipe it out.”
If someone can find the sympathetic portrayal of suicide bombing victims’ families in some of the big media outlets, feel free to alert the media.
Whoops.
Never mind.
Article in the Post from 2001 that’s well worth a read: “The Suicide Bomber Took Malki’s Life, But Not Our Convictions” — http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28097-2001Aug18
The reporter interviews the father of a girl murdered in the Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing. The father says, “There’s a duality of thinking here and I think most Jews in Israel feel this way. On one side we certainly see a plague of barbarians around us. But at another level of our consciousness we know there are people here with real interests, with lives, with needs that are very similar to the needs that we have…. Malki had the sunniest disposition you’d ever meet in a child. She was amazingly optimistic and positive; it was very striking. Malki was a very outgoing, people-oriented person…. This girl radiated love, it’s the most striking thing about her, you can see in pictures of her this girl had a face that shone with love.”
I don’t think the article Meryl linked to is very flattering to the Palestinians, especially when you compare to the article about Malki. From the article about the Palestinians:
“‘What is your highest wish?’ a Hamas gunman yelled into a microphone from the back of a pickup truck as it inched through the streets here.
“‘To die for the sake of God!’ hundreds of Palestinians responded as the funeral procession made its way to the graveyard on the eastern edge of town.”
All this at a funeral. The Palestinians come across as death-obsessed fanatics.
Tsk, Jerome, still posting from work.
I just may have to send a letter to your bosses about that.
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Anonymous: Don’t you find it interesting that you had to go back five years to find that article?
Five years.
How many Jews still subscribe to the NY Times and the Washington Post? How about Time and Newsweek?
Folks, its time to pull the plug on these rags and tell them WHY you are doing so.
Last year I cancelled my local Minneapolis rag sh##t, and it felt great!
Even at my Minneapolis Jewish community health club this afternoon, three of the four TV sets were tuned to CNN, must be some Jewish masochistic mechanism in place. By the time I left I switched three to FOX, would have done all four except for the senior citizen on the bike still watching CNN, it would have been overtly rude to mess with his TV station.