Friday 13 February 2009

Palestine - Israel's victim for too long

The mainstream media often fails to present the relevant facts and displays severe 'historical amnesia' when discussing the Middle East - resulting in an implicit bias towards Israel, and apparent justification of its aggression.

This article was accompanied, predictably, by an article making the 'case for Israel', but (again predictably) it largely failed to engage with facts and instead fell back on a weak attempt to paint criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic, and to claim that somehow the numbers killed in the recent bout of violence don't reflect the balance of power. I pre-empted some of these tired arguments in my article, and tried to address them. I hope I 'set the record straight' to some extent.

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