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JOURNALISM ITSELF MURDERED TODAY
Below is an article from the Reuters website that has been running all day. I have printed it in full with brackets containing my comments. Its omission of basic information is truly frightening. I no longer have any illusions about who controls the U.S. media.
Top Stories - Reuters
Israel Kills Nine in Gaza, UN Says Siege Must Stop
Tue Sep 24, 3:26 PM ET
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed nine Palestinians on Tuesday in one of its biggest raids in the Gaza Strip and faced international isolation over its siege of Yasser Arafat 's base after the U.N. Security Council said it must stop.
[Huh? "After the UN Security Council said it must stop"? Must stop what?]
The United States abstained in the vote rather than veto it,
[WHAT VOTE? What vote did the US abstain from? What did the UN vote upon? No mention of a UN Security Council resolution is made!]
signaling the growing impatience of Israel's ally and the main Middle East peacebroker. Washington seeks calm in the region and Arab support for its preparations for possible war with Iraq.
In a statement, Arafat said his government welcomed the U.N. resolution and urged quick implementation.
[Oh, so it was a UN *resolution.* But what did the resolution declare? When was it issued?]
A senior Israeli official said Israel would comply with it only if Palestinians met their obligations to arrest militants under the measure. He doubted the Palestinians would do so and said Israel's own compliance was therefore "highly unlikely."
[Compliance with what? What is it that Israel has been called upon to do by the UN?]
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships poured into two Gaza City suburbs hours after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the army, having besieged Arafat's offices, could target the militant Islamic group Hamas next.
Gaza is the main power base of Hamas, which has carried out scores of suicide bombings in a two-year-old Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, including an attack last week that prompted the siege of Arafat's Ramallah headquarters.
The army said it blew up 13 metal workshops that comprised a makeshift weapons factory, as well as the family home of a militant. The workshop owners denied making weapons.
A military source said some of the workshops made Qassam rockets, which Hamas has fired from Gaza into Israel.
GUNFIGHTS ERUPT
The raid met fierce resistance and triggered gunfights. Palestinian hospital sources and families said six civilians and three militants were killed and more than 20 people hurt.
It was the bloodiest day in Gaza since Israel killed Hamas's military commander, his deputy and 14 civilians in an air strike on Gaza City on July 23.
Soldiers also razed the two-story Gaza house belonging to the family of Mohammad Farhat, a militant who killed five people in a Jewish settlement in March before being shot dead.
Israeli media criticized Sharon for doing little to hit Hamas while besieging Arafat in response to two suicide bombings that killed seven people, both claimed by Islamic militant groups, one of them Hamas, opposed to the Palestinian leader.
Arafat says Israeli military clampdowns have crippled his ability to rein in the militants.
Troops have demolished most of Arafat's presidential complex since last Thursday and penned him and more than 200 others into a single building as they press demands for the surrender of 50 suspected militants Israel says are also holed up inside.
On Tuesday soldiers shouted through loudspeakers at the Palestinians inside the offices: "Peace be upon you. Turn yourselves in. It is better for you."
INTERNATIONAL CENSURE
The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding Israel end its siege, using a compromise European text that also called on the Palestinian Authority to bring those responsible for attacks to justice.
[Oh for crying out loud! WHAT did the resolution say? WHEN was it "adopted"? We already have heard what the resolution wants Palestine to do, but what in god's name DOES IT WANT ISRAEL TO DO?]
Arafat "stressed that the Palestinian Authority is committed to the decision with all its items, and it calls on the international community to compel Israel to implement the withdrawal and end the siege," his statement said.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry statement said the decision was positive in "calling for an end to (Palestinian) terror and for putting terrorists on trial" but added that the U.N. demand for an immediate end to its military action was "difficult" to accept.
[He "added" that. It was almost an afterthought. Don't report that Israel is right now DEFYING THE UN. It is only here that we get a vague clue about what the UN wants: an "immediate end to its military action."]
Raanan Gissin, senior adviser to Sharon, said he did not expect the Palestinian Authority to meet U.N. demands to prosecute militants.
"Since the Palestinian Authority definitely not only is not arresting terrorists but actually aiding and abetting them, then it is highly unlikely that we could unilaterally fulfil our part of the resolution," Gissin told Reuters.
Jordan urged Israel to comply, saying its siege tactics only prolonged the Middle East "cycle of violence."
Earlier, the White House said President Bush "views what Israel is doing now as unhelpful to the cause of bringing about reform in Palestinian institutions" before resuming talks on a Palestinian state.
A prominent Palestinian lawmaker who has sharply criticized Arafat's handling of reforms said masked gunmen sprayed bullets at his house on Tuesday although he was not at home at the time.
Legislator Nabil Amr said he believed the shooting was aimed at intimidating him into changing his political views, but he did not accuse anyone of responsibility.
At least 1,564 Palestinians and 600 Israelis have been killed since the Palestinian revolt began in September 2000 after U.S.-brokered peace negotiations stalled.
HERE IS WHAT REUTERS REFUSED TO TELL ITS READERS. HERE IS WHAT THE MEDIA WANTS TO HIDE:
SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE HALT TO ISRAELI MEASURES IN RAMALLAH,
‘EXPEDITIOUS’ ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL TO PRE-SEPTEMBER 2000 POSITIONS
Council Adopts Resolution 1435 (2002)
By 14-0-1 Vote, with United States Abstaining
THE MOST BASIC AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS THAT ANY READER IN THE U.S. IS ENTITLED TO EXPECT WERE MURDERED TODAY BY REUTERS' COWARDICE AND COWERING.
Israel Kills Nine in Gaza, UN Says Siege Must Stop
Tue Sep 24, 3:26 PM ET
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed nine Palestinians on Tuesday in one of its biggest raids in the Gaza Strip and faced international isolation over its siege of Yasser Arafat 's base after the U.N. Security Council said it must stop.
[Huh? "After the UN Security Council said it must stop"? Must stop what?]
The United States abstained in the vote rather than veto it,
[WHAT VOTE? What vote did the US abstain from? What did the UN vote upon? No mention of a UN Security Council resolution is made!]
signaling the growing impatience of Israel's ally and the main Middle East peacebroker. Washington seeks calm in the region and Arab support for its preparations for possible war with Iraq.
In a statement, Arafat said his government welcomed the U.N. resolution and urged quick implementation.
[Oh, so it was a UN *resolution.* But what did the resolution declare? When was it issued?]
A senior Israeli official said Israel would comply with it only if Palestinians met their obligations to arrest militants under the measure. He doubted the Palestinians would do so and said Israel's own compliance was therefore "highly unlikely."
[Compliance with what? What is it that Israel has been called upon to do by the UN?]
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships poured into two Gaza City suburbs hours after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the army, having besieged Arafat's offices, could target the militant Islamic group Hamas next.
Gaza is the main power base of Hamas, which has carried out scores of suicide bombings in a two-year-old Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, including an attack last week that prompted the siege of Arafat's Ramallah headquarters.
The army said it blew up 13 metal workshops that comprised a makeshift weapons factory, as well as the family home of a militant. The workshop owners denied making weapons.
A military source said some of the workshops made Qassam rockets, which Hamas has fired from Gaza into Israel.
GUNFIGHTS ERUPT
The raid met fierce resistance and triggered gunfights. Palestinian hospital sources and families said six civilians and three militants were killed and more than 20 people hurt.
It was the bloodiest day in Gaza since Israel killed Hamas's military commander, his deputy and 14 civilians in an air strike on Gaza City on July 23.
Soldiers also razed the two-story Gaza house belonging to the family of Mohammad Farhat, a militant who killed five people in a Jewish settlement in March before being shot dead.
Israeli media criticized Sharon for doing little to hit Hamas while besieging Arafat in response to two suicide bombings that killed seven people, both claimed by Islamic militant groups, one of them Hamas, opposed to the Palestinian leader.
Arafat says Israeli military clampdowns have crippled his ability to rein in the militants.
Troops have demolished most of Arafat's presidential complex since last Thursday and penned him and more than 200 others into a single building as they press demands for the surrender of 50 suspected militants Israel says are also holed up inside.
On Tuesday soldiers shouted through loudspeakers at the Palestinians inside the offices: "Peace be upon you. Turn yourselves in. It is better for you."
INTERNATIONAL CENSURE
The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding Israel end its siege, using a compromise European text that also called on the Palestinian Authority to bring those responsible for attacks to justice.
[Oh for crying out loud! WHAT did the resolution say? WHEN was it "adopted"? We already have heard what the resolution wants Palestine to do, but what in god's name DOES IT WANT ISRAEL TO DO?]
Arafat "stressed that the Palestinian Authority is committed to the decision with all its items, and it calls on the international community to compel Israel to implement the withdrawal and end the siege," his statement said.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry statement said the decision was positive in "calling for an end to (Palestinian) terror and for putting terrorists on trial" but added that the U.N. demand for an immediate end to its military action was "difficult" to accept.
[He "added" that. It was almost an afterthought. Don't report that Israel is right now DEFYING THE UN. It is only here that we get a vague clue about what the UN wants: an "immediate end to its military action."]
Raanan Gissin, senior adviser to Sharon, said he did not expect the Palestinian Authority to meet U.N. demands to prosecute militants.
"Since the Palestinian Authority definitely not only is not arresting terrorists but actually aiding and abetting them, then it is highly unlikely that we could unilaterally fulfil our part of the resolution," Gissin told Reuters.
Jordan urged Israel to comply, saying its siege tactics only prolonged the Middle East "cycle of violence."
Earlier, the White House said President Bush "views what Israel is doing now as unhelpful to the cause of bringing about reform in Palestinian institutions" before resuming talks on a Palestinian state.
A prominent Palestinian lawmaker who has sharply criticized Arafat's handling of reforms said masked gunmen sprayed bullets at his house on Tuesday although he was not at home at the time.
Legislator Nabil Amr said he believed the shooting was aimed at intimidating him into changing his political views, but he did not accuse anyone of responsibility.
At least 1,564 Palestinians and 600 Israelis have been killed since the Palestinian revolt began in September 2000 after U.S.-brokered peace negotiations stalled.
HERE IS WHAT REUTERS REFUSED TO TELL ITS READERS. HERE IS WHAT THE MEDIA WANTS TO HIDE:
SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE HALT TO ISRAELI MEASURES IN RAMALLAH,
‘EXPEDITIOUS’ ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL TO PRE-SEPTEMBER 2000 POSITIONS
Council Adopts Resolution 1435 (2002)
By 14-0-1 Vote, with United States Abstaining
THE MOST BASIC AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS THAT ANY READER IN THE U.S. IS ENTITLED TO EXPECT WERE MURDERED TODAY BY REUTERS' COWARDICE AND COWERING.
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Middle East - AP
Israel Defies U.N., Continues Siege
Tue Sep 24, 6:03 PM ET
By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israel defied a U.N. Security Council demand Tuesday to end its six-day siege of Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites)'s devastated West Bank headquarters, and nine Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike against alleged munitions factories and other targets in Gaza City.
Israel's siege drew criticism from President Bush and many Israelis who questioned the wisdom of a military operation that may have boosted the Palestinian leader's popularity at a time when voices had begun to be heard urging him to share power.
Sporadic pro-Arafat demonstrations persisted Tuesday despite curfews imposed in the West Bank in an effort to halt suicide attacks.
With the United States abstaining, the Security Council demanded early Tuesday that Israel end its operations, "including the destruction of Palestinian civilian and security infrastructure." The resolution also called on the Palestinian Authority to ensure "those responsible for terrorist acts are brought to justice."
In Washington, Bush said: "We've got to end the suffering. I thought the actions the Israelis took were not helpful in terms of the establishment and development of the institutions necessary for a Palestinian state to emerge."
Unmoved, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that "no resolution, and no person, can take from us our exclusive right to defend our homes, our people."
Cabinet Secretary Gideon Saar said the siege would continue until some 200 people inside the compound give up, asserting many are terrorists who must be put on trial. Apparently hinting at possible use of force, he added: "I'm not convinced it will end in them being given up — but it must end with their capture."
Palestinians took heart from the U.N. resolution. Arafat released a statement praising it, and Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said it should be enforced, "because Israel is the champion of nations undermining Security Council resolutions and not implementing" them.
Telephone lines to Arafat's building were cut Tuesday, Palestinians said, leaving Arafat and his aides with only cellular phones to communicate with the outside world. Israel's army denied any knowledge of the cut lines.
Israeli soldiers, tightly ringing Arafat's building with tanks, didn't allow visitors inside, but the military eased restrictions for reporters in the rest of Ramallah, letting them enter and leave town.
Only two weeks ago, Arafat absorbed his worst-ever internal setback when the Palestinian legislature forced his Cabinet to resign, reflecting growing popular discontent with government mismanagement and the handling of the two years of violence with Israel.
Before Thursday — when Israeli tanks attacked Arafat's compound in response to two Palestinian suicide bombings that left the bombers and seven other people dead — Palestinians were openly discussing limiting Arafat's powers.
Now, the mood may have shifted. Masked gunmen opened fire Tuesday at the house of Nabil Amr, Palestinian security officials said. No one was hurt. Amr is a former Arafat aide turned critic who is a leading voice calling for a prime minister to take over some of Arafat's duties.
Earlier Tuesday, dozens of Israeli tanks moved deep into Gaza City, exchanging fire with Palestinian gunmen and killing nine people, including six civilians.
The Israeli military said its forces blew up 13 weapons workshops and the house of a Hamas militant who killed five Israeli teenagers in a shooting rampage in a Jewish settlement in Gaza earlier this year.
Palestinians said it was the largest Israeli operation in Gaza during two years of fighting, involving about 60 tanks and armored vehicles.
Israel Defies U.N., Continues Siege
Tue Sep 24, 6:03 PM ET
By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israel defied a U.N. Security Council demand Tuesday to end its six-day siege of Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites)'s devastated West Bank headquarters, and nine Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike against alleged munitions factories and other targets in Gaza City.
Israel's siege drew criticism from President Bush and many Israelis who questioned the wisdom of a military operation that may have boosted the Palestinian leader's popularity at a time when voices had begun to be heard urging him to share power.
Sporadic pro-Arafat demonstrations persisted Tuesday despite curfews imposed in the West Bank in an effort to halt suicide attacks.
With the United States abstaining, the Security Council demanded early Tuesday that Israel end its operations, "including the destruction of Palestinian civilian and security infrastructure." The resolution also called on the Palestinian Authority to ensure "those responsible for terrorist acts are brought to justice."
In Washington, Bush said: "We've got to end the suffering. I thought the actions the Israelis took were not helpful in terms of the establishment and development of the institutions necessary for a Palestinian state to emerge."
Unmoved, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that "no resolution, and no person, can take from us our exclusive right to defend our homes, our people."
Cabinet Secretary Gideon Saar said the siege would continue until some 200 people inside the compound give up, asserting many are terrorists who must be put on trial. Apparently hinting at possible use of force, he added: "I'm not convinced it will end in them being given up — but it must end with their capture."
Palestinians took heart from the U.N. resolution. Arafat released a statement praising it, and Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said it should be enforced, "because Israel is the champion of nations undermining Security Council resolutions and not implementing" them.
Telephone lines to Arafat's building were cut Tuesday, Palestinians said, leaving Arafat and his aides with only cellular phones to communicate with the outside world. Israel's army denied any knowledge of the cut lines.
Israeli soldiers, tightly ringing Arafat's building with tanks, didn't allow visitors inside, but the military eased restrictions for reporters in the rest of Ramallah, letting them enter and leave town.
Only two weeks ago, Arafat absorbed his worst-ever internal setback when the Palestinian legislature forced his Cabinet to resign, reflecting growing popular discontent with government mismanagement and the handling of the two years of violence with Israel.
Before Thursday — when Israeli tanks attacked Arafat's compound in response to two Palestinian suicide bombings that left the bombers and seven other people dead — Palestinians were openly discussing limiting Arafat's powers.
Now, the mood may have shifted. Masked gunmen opened fire Tuesday at the house of Nabil Amr, Palestinian security officials said. No one was hurt. Amr is a former Arafat aide turned critic who is a leading voice calling for a prime minister to take over some of Arafat's duties.
Earlier Tuesday, dozens of Israeli tanks moved deep into Gaza City, exchanging fire with Palestinian gunmen and killing nine people, including six civilians.
The Israeli military said its forces blew up 13 weapons workshops and the house of a Hamas militant who killed five Israeli teenagers in a shooting rampage in a Jewish settlement in Gaza earlier this year.
Palestinians said it was the largest Israeli operation in Gaza during two years of fighting, involving about 60 tanks and armored vehicles.
An excellent analysis.
Please forgive.... Who wrote the article ? Nidal al-Mughrabi ? and who added the comments ? I am reading about `framing` - in the media, I was interested by the observeations on the journalistic style. I don`t pretend to understand all the issues in this conflict, but , what motive for this particular newsgroup to risk being acused of bias ?. Why does America alone seem to tolerate Isreali action when the entire wisdom of the security council is against ?
Please forgive.... Who wrote the article ? Nidal al-Mughrabi ? and who added the comments ? I am reading about `framing` - in the media, I was interested by the observations on the journalistic style. I don’t pretend to understand all the issues in this conflict, but, what motive for this particular newsgroup to risk being accused of bias ? Why does America alone seem to tolerate Israeli action when the entire wisdom of the Security Council is against ?
The comments were added by the person who posted this article. The motive for deleting the most basic information from this piece is that the U.S. media does not want its readers to know that Israel has been condemned (yet again!) by the UN, and that Israel refuses to abide by the newest resolution, released yesterday.
Israel defies the UN, and American journalism turns away. Why? Because this would spoil the whole game -- the game of how Iraq does not abide by the UN, and therefore we must "take them out."
Well, the truth was taken out here. Israel is armed to the teeth, and defying resolution after resolution -- much more than Iraq. And the rest of the world does nothing to enforce the resolutions against it!
The interesting thing about this horrible piece of journalism was how badly it had been edited -- no one sent it back, it was simply hacked up. That's my take on reading it. Someone just came to it and cut out all the parts that they didn't want the public to read (what the resolution was, what it asked for, when it was released, etc.)
Who, what, when, where, why -- the basics that readers should expect in a piece on Reuters, were missing in this article because US media interests are overwhelming pro-Zionist.
The actual wholesale lie is here in bold. It's pretty amazing. Speaker after speaker at the UN deplored the "double standard," and yet in the press, we see the double standard unwittingly lit up in bright neon colors. By deleting such important information and insulting the intelligence of readers, the article actually draws attention to what is missing.
Israel defies the UN, and American journalism turns away. Why? Because this would spoil the whole game -- the game of how Iraq does not abide by the UN, and therefore we must "take them out."
Well, the truth was taken out here. Israel is armed to the teeth, and defying resolution after resolution -- much more than Iraq. And the rest of the world does nothing to enforce the resolutions against it!
The interesting thing about this horrible piece of journalism was how badly it had been edited -- no one sent it back, it was simply hacked up. That's my take on reading it. Someone just came to it and cut out all the parts that they didn't want the public to read (what the resolution was, what it asked for, when it was released, etc.)
Who, what, when, where, why -- the basics that readers should expect in a piece on Reuters, were missing in this article because US media interests are overwhelming pro-Zionist.
The actual wholesale lie is here in bold. It's pretty amazing. Speaker after speaker at the UN deplored the "double standard," and yet in the press, we see the double standard unwittingly lit up in bright neon colors. By deleting such important information and insulting the intelligence of readers, the article actually draws attention to what is missing.
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