Following the portion below, Maryrose Asher, who lives near Seattle and is Jewish, and has been working on this issue with her husband for many years, goes on to list specific instances of press bias. Really valuable info. Please read the whole article at the link below.
Portion below; whole thing here: http://greenertimes.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/countering-us-israel-propaganda-regarding-gaza/
Now that you know a little about me, I hope you will understand if what I write shows a little less patience, and balance, when writing about US-Israel propaganda. The mainstream media and mainstream Jewish organizations provide you with enough information regarding Israel’s position so I will try to really provide “balance.”
I feel this is important for me to try to do. Joe Mowrey, a Palestinian rights and human rights activist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, wrote, “I am finding that even many very antiwar progressives are being lured into a belief that what Israel is doing is a surgical strike against militants in Gaza.”
As for the Democrats, President-elect Obama, as we all know, has been silent on the subject except to repeat the now too common refrain, “we can only have one president at a time,” although he freely addresses the economy or the terrorist actions in Mumbai with no such qualms.
Now, congress has passed legislation that puts the blame on Hamas. The bill, introduced by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offers unconditional support to Israel, tacitly endorsing the war crimes being committed by Israel. It does not call for an immediate ceasefire, nor an end to the blockade Israel has imposed on Gaza. This bill has passed the Senate with a unanimous vote and also the House, with only five “no” votes: Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Gwen Moore (D-WI), and Ron Paul (R-TX).
1. Hamas broke the peace treaty and started attacking southern Israel
CNN’s Rick Sanchez first broke the story that it was not Hamas but, in fact, Israel that first broke the ceasefire. Below is from a transcript of the show:
MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI, PALESTINIAN LEGISLATOR: The world press community or media community is overwhelmed with the Israeli narrative, which is incorrect. The Israeli spokesperson have been spreading lies all over. The reality and the truth is that the side that broke this truce and this ceasefire was Israel. Two months before it ended, Israel started attacking Rafah, started attacking Hanunis (ph), and never lifted the blockade on Gaza. Gaza remains without fuel, without electricity, with bread, without medications, without any medical equipment for people who are dying in Gaza — 262 people died, 6 people because of no access to medical care. So Israel broke the ceasefire.
Sanchez then cites U.S. News and World Report, “The six-month ceasefire started coming apart at the beginning of November after Israeli commandos killed a team of Hamas fighters during a raid on a tunnel they suspected was being dug for kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. That raid set off more Palestinian rocketing.” He goes on to read from The Guardian, “A four-month ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was in jeopardy today after Israeli troops killed six gunmen in a raid in the territory.” And, finally, he quotes from the Economist.com, “The last straw came in November, when Israelis killed six gunmen it said were digging tunnels to launch a raid onto Israel, spurring Hamas to respond with a barrage of rockets.”
Sanchez concludes, “So the question as to who started this — and we’ve been hearing that the Israelis say they had to do this because, suddenly, the ceasefire had been broken in Gaza by the Hamas and the Palestinians. Is this now a little more in question? And you know what we did? I’ve checked with some of the folks here at our international desk, and I went to them and asked, What was he talking about, and do we have any information on that? Which they confirmed, two months ago — this is back in November — there was an attack. It was an Israeli raid that took out six people.”
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