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In reply to the discussion: How media conditions people to be anti-Israel [View all]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)3. the article in question
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The murder by knife of three children, including an infant of 3 months, and both parents in a West Bank settlement late Friday night rocked Israel terribly. The news broke on Saturday morning, and the shock was somehow both muted and amplified by the enforced public silence of the Jewish Sabbath. But Shabbat ended at sundown, and freed from the strictures of enforced rest, events lurched forward with something very like vengeance.
First came the condemnations. "This is a despicable murder of an entire innocent family, parents, children and an infant, while they were sleeping in their home on the Sabbath evening," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. "We all know," Netanyahu added, "as those who want to strike at us will know, that the future of the settlements will not be decided by terror." (See the West Bank's emerging middle class.)
A few hours later, however, the Prime Minister made certain that the attack would, in fact, have a direct impact on Israel's West Bank settlements. Before Sunday dawned, his government had approved construction of 500 new homes on Palestinian territory. The homes are to be built on settlement blocs close to the 1967 border, densely packed and often suburban, rather than in the remote hilltop settlements like Itamar, where the Fogel family lived and where friction with neighboring Palestinians is far more common. But it was the first new construction Netanyahu's government has approved, and the clearest effort to transmute the deaths of the Fogels into politics. It would not be the only one.
First came the condemnations. "This is a despicable murder of an entire innocent family, parents, children and an infant, while they were sleeping in their home on the Sabbath evening," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. "We all know," Netanyahu added, "as those who want to strike at us will know, that the future of the settlements will not be decided by terror." (See the West Bank's emerging middle class.)
A few hours later, however, the Prime Minister made certain that the attack would, in fact, have a direct impact on Israel's West Bank settlements. Before Sunday dawned, his government had approved construction of 500 new homes on Palestinian territory. The homes are to be built on settlement blocs close to the 1967 border, densely packed and often suburban, rather than in the remote hilltop settlements like Itamar, where the Fogel family lived and where friction with neighboring Palestinians is far more common. But it was the first new construction Netanyahu's government has approved, and the clearest effort to transmute the deaths of the Fogels into politics. It would not be the only one.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2058660,00.html#ixzz1xY7ZupIp
The rest is about the settlements, now I took the knife as meaning as opposed to a gun or bomb, but it did not say Palestinian terrorists so of course.......but the article got one thing right ,the Fogels deaths transmuted into politics and this OP is a very good example of that
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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