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In reply to the discussion: How media conditions people to be anti-Israel [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)4. Creating a "cycle of violence" by equating Israeli actions to Palestinian terror...
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A popular and effective media device is to throw Israeli deeds into the pot with Palestinian deeds. What comes out of the pot is a tasty porridge named cycle of violence.
The melting pot offers two benefits. One, acts of Palestinian barbarism can be softened or hidden altogether; and two, Israelis can be paired with this barbarism to impart the idea of both sides in the slime pot together.
There are many cases to draw on for the melting pot trick. I choose three, for their clarity or horrendous details. The first case deals with the execution of an Israeli child in her bed in the settlement of Adora, 2002.
We know the reporter, Phil Reeves, producer of The Great Hoax Massacre. The headline (to be fair, we have no way of knowing if it was written by him or an editor, but the point stands) foreshadows what Reeves will do with the story. It refers to aggression by Israel. One has to wade through four columns on Israeli offensives before coming, near the end, to a casual reference to the shooting of five-year-old Danielle Shefi in front of her mother. And so, Reeves concludes, the cycle of violence goes around.
Into the slime pot he throws the Palestinian militants killed in armed conflict, and a child executed in bed, in front of the mother.
The melting pot offers two benefits. One, acts of Palestinian barbarism can be softened or hidden altogether; and two, Israelis can be paired with this barbarism to impart the idea of both sides in the slime pot together.
There are many cases to draw on for the melting pot trick. I choose three, for their clarity or horrendous details. The first case deals with the execution of an Israeli child in her bed in the settlement of Adora, 2002.
We know the reporter, Phil Reeves, producer of The Great Hoax Massacre. The headline (to be fair, we have no way of knowing if it was written by him or an editor, but the point stands) foreshadows what Reeves will do with the story. It refers to aggression by Israel. One has to wade through four columns on Israeli offensives before coming, near the end, to a casual reference to the shooting of five-year-old Danielle Shefi in front of her mother. And so, Reeves concludes, the cycle of violence goes around.
Into the slime pot he throws the Palestinian militants killed in armed conflict, and a child executed in bed, in front of the mother.
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Creating a "cycle of violence" by equating Israeli actions to Palestinian terror...
shira
Jun 2012
#4
so I take it we are being instructed that we should ignore all Israeli actions WRT the Palestinians
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#6
Wait. You're arguing the OP is ridiculous, you can't make an argument as to why it's ridiculous...
shira
Jun 2012
#15
You can't seriously argue that Israeli military actions are ALWAYS morally superior
Ken Burch
Oct 2012
#46
What the International media won't report: 'Turkey investigating IHH head for funding al-Qaida'
shira
Jun 2012
#19
Palestinian woman on hunger strike for 3 weeks. She’s not in Israel, so the Guardian yawns
shira
Jun 2012
#21
rolls eyes only Arabs practice apartheid ya we've heard it all before..........
azurnoir
Oct 2012
#57
"perceived wrongdoing" so the occupation of the West Bank is only a perceived wrongdoing?
azurnoir
Oct 2012
#59
EXCLUSIVE: BBC spends a third of £1 million concealing Middle East 'Balen Report'
shira
Aug 2012
#24
well if you read Israeli media you'll find that Israeli Jews living in the West Bank
azurnoir
Oct 2012
#48
I suspect you are referring to my reference of Double Vision. That book documents when the
still_one
Oct 2012
#67