Media Bias

I always get frustrated at the Medias' Bias towards the cause of the Palestinians in the Arab Israeli conflict. I experienced such a frustration just today when viewing the Belfast Telegraph website. There was a typcically staged picture of a Palestinian child looking 'forlorn'. Now no doubt, Gaza is not a pleasent place to be at the moment, but neither is Ashdod or Tel Aviv, but you never see media images of 'forlorn' looking Israeli children. The only pictures you see protraying Israel are pictures of tanks and F16 Jets.

I clicked on the picture on the Belfast Telegraph wesite and it took me to an article about the ongoing conflict in Southern Israel. Once again as I read the article my frustration grew. The following is an extract from the article.

'Since then it (Israel) has carried out hundreds of air strikes in what it says is a systematic campaign to halt years of rocket attacks launched from Gaza. While Israel claims to have inflicted heavy damage, dozens of rockets have continued to fly out of Gaza each day.'

You will notice that the Telegraph's correspondent calls into question Israel claim that there is a systematic campaign by Hamas to shoot rockets into Israel by the subtle use of the term 'in what it says'(highlighted above). However, despite using the language of questioning Israel's claim the correspondent goes on to acknowledge in the same paragraph that 'dozens of rockets have continued to fly out of Gaza each day.'

The facts are clear, in the past few years thousands of rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza and from Lebanon. There is no question about it, no doubt about it. But listen carefully to media reports and you will continually hear these questioning terms being used 'they say' or 'Isarel says'. On the other hand when they report what Israel does in response (and they have every right to) to these attacks there is no ambiguity. It reported as fact.

Once again the free press disappoints me.

'Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.' Psalm 121 v4