UPI International Editor Lives in a Pathetic, Anti-Israel Fantasy World
How could this guy ever be biased:
But much as Hezbollah and the Israelis are at the forefront of this conflict, that is not the root cause of hostilities by any length of imagination. The root cause of the conflict was, and remains, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Solve it and you solve 90 percent of the region's problems. Ignore it and Secretary Rice and future secretaries of state will be shuttling back and forth to the Middle East for decades more to come.
It'd be nice if the Left could get their terrorist-apologist line straight. We just finished making fun of the SF Chronicle for saying that there's absolutely no connection between Hezbollah and Hamas, and now we find ourselves having to point out that Hezbollah is unlikely to give up their declared goal of wiping out every Jew in Israel. But maybe we just underestimate their good will.
This article is such a naked, blatant hack piece that it's almost unworthy of taking apart. But two tactics bear attention. The first is the confession by Editor Salhani that he more or less refuses to talk to people who support Israel:
In any case, it would be a one-sided conversation following the massacre of some 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, in Qana Sunday by an Israeli air strike... This is not the first time the Israelis have targeted Qana.
It's cute when journalists pretend that there's just one side to a conflict simply because they don't know anyone on the other side. How about this argument: this is not the first time that Lebanese civilians in Qana have suffered because Hezbollah uses their town as a military base.
Omission is bad. But it's not as embarrassing as sheer logical contradiction.
First sentence of paragraph 12: "Israel never accepted that Hezbollah forced them out of south Lebanon, and in short, won the first hand in this new war."
First sentence of paragraph 13: "Israel never forgot the feeling of humiliation the country... experienced".
We understand: it's tough to both celebrate the victory of genocidal thugs over the Middle East's most civilized country ("Hezbollah gave the Palestinians living in the occupied territories hope") and demonize Israel as responsible for all the problems in the Middle East. But surely the obligation that journalists have to their readers - not to treat their readers like total idiots - should have caused Salhani to put these two statements a little farther away from each other.
But much as Hezbollah and the Israelis are at the forefront of this conflict, that is not the root cause of hostilities by any length of imagination. The root cause of the conflict was, and remains, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Solve it and you solve 90 percent of the region's problems. Ignore it and Secretary Rice and future secretaries of state will be shuttling back and forth to the Middle East for decades more to come.
It'd be nice if the Left could get their terrorist-apologist line straight. We just finished making fun of the SF Chronicle for saying that there's absolutely no connection between Hezbollah and Hamas, and now we find ourselves having to point out that Hezbollah is unlikely to give up their declared goal of wiping out every Jew in Israel. But maybe we just underestimate their good will.
This article is such a naked, blatant hack piece that it's almost unworthy of taking apart. But two tactics bear attention. The first is the confession by Editor Salhani that he more or less refuses to talk to people who support Israel:
In any case, it would be a one-sided conversation following the massacre of some 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, in Qana Sunday by an Israeli air strike... This is not the first time the Israelis have targeted Qana.
It's cute when journalists pretend that there's just one side to a conflict simply because they don't know anyone on the other side. How about this argument: this is not the first time that Lebanese civilians in Qana have suffered because Hezbollah uses their town as a military base.
Omission is bad. But it's not as embarrassing as sheer logical contradiction.
First sentence of paragraph 12: "Israel never accepted that Hezbollah forced them out of south Lebanon, and in short, won the first hand in this new war."
First sentence of paragraph 13: "Israel never forgot the feeling of humiliation the country... experienced".
We understand: it's tough to both celebrate the victory of genocidal thugs over the Middle East's most civilized country ("Hezbollah gave the Palestinians living in the occupied territories hope") and demonize Israel as responsible for all the problems in the Middle East. But surely the obligation that journalists have to their readers - not to treat their readers like total idiots - should have caused Salhani to put these two statements a little farther away from each other.
