[Peace-discuss] Dear U of I College of Communication:

[jencart]

That was irony, David, proving yr point about the media.  Too subtle, sorry.    Jenifer C
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You haven't been reading the posts that I've been
making. Israel has been attacking the Palestinians for
a hundred years.

David




--- jencart <jencart at mycidco.com> wrote:
> David,
> 
> Does Israel ever actually attack Palestinians?  From
> what I hear,  it's the Palestinians that attack.....
> Israel only retaliates.
> 
> Schiavo, beached whales, a kid in a well, Lance
> Armstrong, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other Big
> Stories break thru the general stupor. Otherwise,
> Compassion Fatigue seems as prevalent as obesity and
> high Reality TV ratings.
> 
> Jenifer C.
>
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> number of Palestinian families from Bethlehem
> leaving
> them in “no-man’s land” as they are not Israeli
> citizens and now have no access to Palestinian
> areas.
> The wall has also destroyed thousands of olive trees
> and other agricultural properties. 
> 
> Thus, not only does the Wall continue to be built on
> Palestinian land further impoverishing the
> indigenous
> population for the benefit of a select ethnic group,
> the continued unchecked violence by both Israeli
> settlers and their military against unarmed and
> non-combatant Palestinian has continued daily. Of
> course we must not forget about the hundreds of
> roadblocks and dozens of military checkpoints in the
> West Bank that prevent people from attending school,
> going to work, or visiting family. 
> 
> Of course the media is generally complicit to
> uncritical reporting. Most of their information
> comes
> from the Israeli government itself and few reporters
> leave Israeli proper or Jerusalem. During my three
> 6-week visits to the West Bank, foreign journalists
> were rarely seen. This should not be a considered a
> surprise. Israel regularly refuses journalists (as
> well as all foreign citizens and human rights
> workers)
> from traveling to Palestinian areas. Israel believes
> that part of its war with the Palestinians is a
> public
> relations war. Israeli officials actually speak
> openly
> about their need to control the way the conflict is
> represented in the United States and Europe. People
> who get all their news about the conflict from the
> mainstream media in the United States and Europe
> will
> never be able to understand this conflict. Without
> searching for alternative news sites that cover the
> events that occur there, most people in the “west”
> misunderstand the conflict as a “war between two
> peoples” or “Israeli response to Palestinian
> violence”
> without understanding the basic fact that the
> Palestinian people live under a harsh military
> occupation by a foreign army - an occupation which
> today is the longest running in history. 
> 
> 
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