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| 1179.1 | yes, well... | TAV02::FEINBERG | Don Feinberg | Mon Mar 02 1992 11:52 | 26 |
| re: .0
>It needs to be pointed out (since there are always enough people willing
>to point out our faults) that the Israeli army and many volunteers
>worked through the night to dig through the rubble for survivors and
>try to save as many as possible. This of course is obvious and hardly
>even worthy of note. What is noteworthy is that this civil defense
>unit, after working tirelessly 20 straight hours at the site of the
>tragedy, was pelted with stones (surprise, surprise) on their way out
>of East Jerusalem.
This event made it to the BBC world service report yesterday.
BBC got the "cold facts" more or less straight, and they
did blame the weather (and not Israel) for the collapse
of the roof. However, describing the aftermath, they were
very careful to say how this building was in the Arab section
-- "the occupied East section" of Jerusalem, and how all the
victims were Arabs. They concluded by reporting on the many
Arab volunteers helping to dig it out. That was it...
>Some things never change...
Yep.
don f.
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| 1179.2 | was ok on radio in US | TNPUBS::STEINHART | | Mon Mar 02 1992 15:56 | 21 |
| The news report I heard did mention that the Israelis were helping to
dig out. Can't recall what medium; I believe it was radio, either NPR
or a commercial channel. They stressed that it was a cemetery wall
that collapsed, unrelated to any other problems in the area.
Wish such media coverage was more common. . .
But,
A few weeks ago, NPR broadcast coverage on that prisoner who died under
interrogation. The correspondant interviewed the independent doctor
from Medicins Sans Frontiers who had investigated. The correspondent
kept badgering the doctor along the lines, "Was the death related to
mistreatment." The doctor would only reply, several times. "The death
was a heart attack related to the stresses of captivity and
interrogation." The doctor refused to say the prisoner was abused. I
was none too pleased with the NPR correspondent. Clearly the doctor
had carefully thought out his statement. I thought the NPR
correspondent was playing into the usual prejudices.
Laura
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| 1179.3 | | ULYSSE::HALDANE | Almost Infalllible | Mon Mar 02 1992 17:00 | 7 |
| I heard a report yesterday on the BBC World Service that said
something like:
"For the first time since [the 1967 war?], Israelis and Arabs were
working side by side..."
Delia
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| 1179.4 | | TAV02::FEINBERG | Don Feinberg | Wed Mar 04 1992 10:33 | 24 |
| reply to 1179.3
> I heard a report yesterday on the BBC World Service that said
> something like:
>
> "For the first time since [the 1967 war?], Israelis and Arabs were
> working side by side..."
And, if that's true, it's a tragedy.
Another truth of the matter is even more upsetting: one of the
greatest tragedies of the intifada is that during the years from
1967 onward, you could see more and more instances of open cooperation
between Israelis and Arabs ("working side by side"). I was
personally involved in some instances in which I doubted to receive
calmness, cooperation, help, ..., from certain Arabs but yet
received it. The opposite was also true! The fact is that there
*was* a significant and slowly increasing amount of open cooperation.
One of the main products of the intifada is to have destroyed
practically all of that. Lost in the Correct Opinion of the
news media.
don
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