Friday, July 18, 2014

Fair Reporting by the AP on Israel/Palestine?



Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children
in the West Bank (2012)


Eleven days into Israel's most recent invasion of Gaza the AP reports that one Israeli soldier has been killed.  He was likely gunned down by friendly fire.  Details can be found in the "The Big Story".

The same story provides the reader with the number of Palestinians killed by the hands of Israel....
...a conflict that has already seen more than 274 Palestinians killed in Gaza, around a fifth of them children.

So if you are scoring at home this "conflict" is 274-to-1.  

In a 2012 school shooting in Connecticut the score was 26-to-1.  Would anyone have called what that shooter did to those poor people a "conflict"?






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