Reply #4: Every writer on any current news or historic or social issue and damn near anything down to

[ConsAreLiars]

constructing an arithmetic lesson book for first graders does so in a way that expresses that writer's point of view. That you don't accept the POV of this Palestinian source is no surprise. But I OP'd it here just because it shows how the endless practice of killings and abductions by the occupiers are seen/felt by the victims.

Sometimes an attempt is made to conceal the bias in reporting by using selective details and more value-neutral words (you certainly know how this is done), but life experience and being enmeshed in an assortment of particular social/class/political/religious/friendship networks always means there is bias.

I find an article like this one far more honest than ones that just reprint official press releases or cite as fact whisper campaigns by those who see every murder of a Palestinian as a justified act of self-defense.

One fact is clear. Another week, and yet another Palestinian, or more, has been killed by the Israeli government, And the Israeli media is cheering/justifying it.

And there are those who would be howling with rage and calling for retaliatory mass slaughter (or at least calling such an response "understandable and reasonable") if one Israeli were killed or even abducted (or arrested, if you prefer) or several had their sleep interrupted. They don't even think it is worth mentioning or say it's OK because the victim was this or that -- more than 15 years old, shooting birds, chasing dogs, planting explosives, whatever. In short, just another dead Palestinian and who gives a shit.

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