Compare and Contrast II
At what point, exactly, do you think that Mohammed Daraghmeh, of the Associated Press, gave up journalistic ethics for subtle, politically interested obfuscation:
Extremists on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides pose a significant threat to a truce that 13 Palestinian factions agreed to extend this week.
Rogue Palestinian groups, some of which are believed to be funded by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, remain outside the truce, which is underpinning the new momentum toward peacemaking that has brought a recent drop in violence.
And Jewish extremists could upset the deal if they make good on threats to stage provocative demonstrations aimed at derailing Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip
Now, he's not as out of it as his bad writing makes him sound. The demonstrations that he's talking about involve plans to send mobs of Jews onto the Temple Mount, which is certain to incite massive Muslim riots and tie down the Israeli soldiers who would otherwise be participating in the disengagement. It does leave out the deeper issue though: in the first case of Palestinians disrupting the peace process, it would be Palestinians killing Jews for being Jewish in the wrong place (Tel Aviv); in the second case of Jews disrupting the peace process, it would be Palestinians killing Jews for being Jewish in the wrong place (Jerusalem). So when examined, it's worse than just equivocating between murder and something far, far less severe than murder and then blaming them both equally for threatening the peace process - it's that the faux equivocation covers up the fact that in both cases the peace process is threatened by Palestinian violence.
Extremists on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides pose a significant threat to a truce that 13 Palestinian factions agreed to extend this week.
Rogue Palestinian groups, some of which are believed to be funded by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, remain outside the truce, which is underpinning the new momentum toward peacemaking that has brought a recent drop in violence.
And Jewish extremists could upset the deal if they make good on threats to stage provocative demonstrations aimed at derailing Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip
Now, he's not as out of it as his bad writing makes him sound. The demonstrations that he's talking about involve plans to send mobs of Jews onto the Temple Mount, which is certain to incite massive Muslim riots and tie down the Israeli soldiers who would otherwise be participating in the disengagement. It does leave out the deeper issue though: in the first case of Palestinians disrupting the peace process, it would be Palestinians killing Jews for being Jewish in the wrong place (Tel Aviv); in the second case of Jews disrupting the peace process, it would be Palestinians killing Jews for being Jewish in the wrong place (Jerusalem). So when examined, it's worse than just equivocating between murder and something far, far less severe than murder and then blaming them both equally for threatening the peace process - it's that the faux equivocation covers up the fact that in both cases the peace process is threatened by Palestinian violence.
