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Conference taveng::bagels

Title:BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest
Notice:1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration
Moderator:SMURF::FENSTER
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1524
Total number of notes:18709

249.0. "West Bank Demonstrations" by ULTRA::ELLIS (David Ellis) Mon Dec 15 1986 09:50

There has been a lot of negative press coverage lately on the West Bank
demonstrations.  The Boston Globe has focused on the "outrage" of Israeli
soldiers killing unarmed Palestinian children who are demonstrating against
the Israeli occupation.

Can somebody over in Israel tell us what is really happening?  I have the sense
that our media aren't giving us an accurate picture.

David Ellis -- Secure Systems Group -- LTN2-2/C08 -- DTN 226-6784 
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249.1Not so bad this time, but...NONODE::CHERSONMore_ScienceMon Dec 15 1986 12:1412
    David, I get the Shabbat edition of Maariv every week, and the stories
    there concerning the demonstrations don't deviate too much from
    what the Globe has been publishing.
    
    Normally I jump on the Globe every chance I get for anti-Israel
    bias(this is more of a generic problem for all of the press), but
    I can't fault them too much in this case.  Although they do seem
    to take advantage of every negative move Israel makes, without giving
    equal time to the faults of the Arab world.
    
    David
    
249.2Not too badlySHIRE::GREGIntl. Engineering, Geneva, 821-4826Tue Dec 16 1986 03:0313
    I beleive that the answer lies in what type of a country Israel
    is supposed to be. If we accept that we are human, that we can make
    mistakes etc... and are not a divine revelation then we are doing
    what we can (who is covering Lebanon appart from an afterthought
    now that we've left the place? What about Afghanistan-appart from
    a senate committee or other? Why hasn't the press launched a scathing
    attack on both Iran and Iraq for not allowing independant press
    people to the battle scenes? You should see what the press delivers
    as an attack when they aren't allowed in a few hours after the event).
    If we are a divine revelation then we are goofing somewhere, my
    beleif is that we are well ahead of the pack including the US whose
    record in 'Nam was nothing to tell us how we should or should not
    behave.
249.3But the Globe says...GRAMPS::LISSESD&P ShrewsburyThu Dec 18 1986 12:525
    In today's AP news I read that an Israeli solder was wounded in the
    face with an ax. I wonder what the Boston Globe had to say about it, if
    anything? 

			Fred