Thursday, December 28, 2006

Seems to me the title of the article might be a tad misleading....

Just a tad. Another anti-Semitic inaccurate headline about the situation in Israel.

Let's look at the situation : There are two countries. They agree to a "truce" after one country (let's call A for assholes) has been shelling the other country (let's call her B for ease) non-stop. There were few causalities (plus: people wounded, property destroyed, and people generally terrified of living under a constant threat of violence from the rockets launched thus causing more than half the population to have post-traumatic syndrome) so the world press/opinion gave the shelling a "pass". Country A agreed that it would "stop shelling." What they meant by that is "stop shelling much." So the world reported that a truce has been reached, even though country B was still being shelled. Yesterday, two boys were wounded, one critically. So country B decided to not be a major pussy and be a minor pussy and made the announcement that it might, just maybe, start protecting it citizens by targeting country A's Kassam rocket launchers. So what would you expect an article on the subject to be titled? This would be the least of my expectations.:
Country B to React to Country A's Horrible Attack

Instead AP goes with this little gem:

Israel threatens to renew attacks

After two vague paragraphs about "shaky truce" and Abbas being a moderate the the article launches into why Israel is actually considering protecting its citizens. So while Israel threatens to attack, Palestinians are actually attacking. But yet the headline leaves one feeling that it's the big bad Israel flexing its insensitive and arrogant muscle and killing the cowardly Palestinians who hide behind women and children and cry "occupation" at every chance they got.

I'm so tired of reading and writing about crap like this. The double standards imposed on Israel while other countries get to protect themselves without a peep from the world community (btw good for them - as See Dubya quips "It’s hard when there are armed men with guns shooting back at you instead of women and children running away, Musa.") gets my goat. So I write pointless blog entries about it, rather badly I might add. And although it feels rather pointless it gets the little bursts of anger out of me and lets me breathe easier.

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