For years, the press has used the canard of “even-handedness” to paper over Palestinian atrocities by equated Israeli self-defense and Palestinian aggression. So you’d hear a lot of world-weary resignation about “the cycle of violence,” followed by pithy sanctimonious maxims like “in a conflict like this, there’s enough blame to go around.”
That strategy apparently got boring, so now the press has slipped into just openly blaming Israel for the whole thing. I got this off Lexis – it’s from the Inter Press Service 02/05/04:
Since the Palestinian uprising began in September 2000, over 2,600 Palestinians and more than 825 Israelis have been killed in the violence. The continued Israeli repression and the assassinations of Palestinian leaders have, in turn, triggered a rash of suicide bombings against Israelis.
At a minimum I think they should have to try harder to mask their hatred of the Jewish state, if only because clumsy hack-jobs are inelegant and embarrassing for the rest of us to even read.
