The truth is out there, somewhere

[Resistance]

ANTONIA ZERBISIAS, Toronto Star

We're looking at perhaps two dozen Palestinians dead and maybe 250 more injured since mid-December when the town (Nablus) came under a virtually uninterrupted Israeli military blockade. A 5-year-old was gunned down just before Christmas. This week, a 15-year-old was shot dead because, as IDF troops said, he was hurling concrete blocks at them from a rooftop. His 17-year-old cousin was killed during the burial because, as the Jerusalem Post reported, "soldiers spotted an armed Palestinian participating in the funeral."

I know about Nablus thanks to sites such as palestinemonitor.org, palsolidarity.org and fromoccupiedpalestine.org. But I don't trust these alone, and don't have to because I have the time and resources to check and double-check elsewhere. Most others don't.

And so concurrent with the spread of the Internet, coincidentally or not, the poles grow further apart, the fear mounts, the hate entrenches and the violence escalates.

Or so it seems — thanks to the Internet that perpetuates the paranoia while, ironically, providing the reportage the mainstream media appear to have abandoned.

What the Web giveth, it also taketh away.

The truth is out there, all right.