A headline is worth a thousand words. See if you can find the AP headline without using your mouse. Second prize for anti-Israel media bias goes to CNN.
2 rockets fired from Lebanon towards Israel
Rocket from Lebanon wounds three Israelis: medics
Katyusha hits Galilee community; 3 lightly hurt
Israel claims woman hurt in rocket attack
That last is CNN. That’s the headline going around on the main and international websites. Yes, Israel “claims” that a woman was hurt. Palestinians state; Israel claims. That’s one of the biggest anti-Israel biases in the media—questioning everything that Israel says, buying every Palestinian “medic” or “witness” as the truth. Witness lies like the one about the UN school (which was never hit, and which did not have 42 people killed in the strike.)
This is why I read the Israeli papers regularly. To find out what really happened.
Yes, indeed. Even though Palestinian claims are often absurdly wide of the mark–the casualties list from Gaza seems to lessen every day, it turns out five hundred people were not massacred in Jenin, etc. Nevertheless, Palestinian claims are taken as true and Israeli claims are just that, claims.
I wonder if the fact that access to the Palestinian territories is not free and reprisals are taken against agencies and reporters who do not toe the Palestinian line has anything to do with it?
Nah…can’t be.