Reply #147: Daily Kos doesn't touch IP on its frontpage. and only member diaries represent the area.

[shergald]

In the IP area, Daily Kos is not biased, and the same applies to Huffington Post, as writings representing both sides are permitted. But that is just the point, and both of these sites are seen as anti-Israel just because they expose the conflict. And both, along with Salon, have been cited by Israeli PR sources for this reason. Small blogs like DU are apparently less a concern, especially since DU sections off IP, and as far as I can tell, does not display IP news on its frontpage.

The saying that you can put lipstick on a pig, but a pig is still a pig, seems to apply here. It is just not possible for Israel to continue its occupation of the Palestinians, while it steals, i.e., colonizes, their lands and expect that it all makes for a pretty picture. And the continual killings of Palestinians, civilians and children, in particular, that go on speaks for itself. Aside of the massacres in Gaza in 2006 and 2008, every year hundreds of Palestinians were being killed, many through targeted assassinations. How does one hide these atrocities?

In my opinion, Israel prefers censorship on the blogs, just as exists in the mainstream media. That is to say, it prefers silence, since most IP news coming out is ipso facto critical of Israel.

Please don't ask me what I think about DU, in this regard.