Comments on: Gaza beach deaths http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: charles http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-232139 charles Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:31:42 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-232139 oops... i meant to say link to the independent story not the telegraph story. oops… i meant to say link to the independent story not the telegraph story.

]]> By: Issandr El Amrani http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-231751 Issandr El Amrani Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:26:20 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-231751 It's good to see the press doing quality debunking. It was absolutely shameful how some media outlets went into apologist / denial overdrive after the al Dura killing, most notably James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly. It’s good to see the press doing quality debunking. It was absolutely shameful how some media outlets went into apologist / denial overdrive after the al Dura killing, most notably James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly.

]]> By: Simon http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-231624 Simon Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:04:47 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-231624 Hard to think of the Telegraph as anything but pro-Israeli. It certainly was when it was owned by unlamented Conrad Black (who was also owner of the apparently once-great Jerusalem Post, and the never ever great New York Sun). Perhaps it has changed since he sold it. Hard to think of the Telegraph as anything but pro-Israeli. It certainly was when it was owned by unlamented Conrad Black (who was also owner of the apparently once-great Jerusalem Post, and the never ever great New York Sun).
Perhaps it has changed since he sold it.

]]> By: Ceinwen http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-231332 Ceinwen Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:12:08 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2006/06/19/gaza-beach-deaths/#comment-231332 <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/15/isrlpa13570.htm/" rel="nofollow">Human Rights Watch</a> presents similar evidence against the official Israeli perspective, I think. The Western media expoitation of this has been horrendous: the public has been led to believe that apathy towards these events is acceptable when graphic images of despair do not emerge. And when they do - ah, instant propaganda fodder! It's surely a symptom of a diseased society - when people respond more to symbols and icons than to other people. Human Rights Watch presents similar evidence against the official Israeli perspective, I think.

The Western media expoitation of this has been horrendous: the public has been led to believe that apathy towards these events is acceptable when graphic images of despair do not emerge. And when they do - ah, instant propaganda fodder! It’s surely a symptom of a diseased society - when people respond more to symbols and icons than to other people.

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