Arafat's PA Praises Murderer of Israeli Family - Condemns Attack on Radio Station

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Arafat's PA Praises Murderer of Israeli Family - Condemns Attack on Radio Station
IMRA | May 2, 2004

Yasser Arafat's PA condemned tonight the attack in Gaza by Israeli helicopters on the Hamas radio station. "This is a cowardly act by a war criminal," Voice of Palestine quoted a senior Palestinian official.

The Voice of Palestine called the men who carried out the earlier attack today that left a pregnant mother and her four children dead "an act of heroic martyrdom". The radio station repeatedly used the term "is tish-had" (heroic martyrdom) and "mustash-hidin" (heroic martyrs) to describe the act committed by "two youths". After reporting the attackers names the radio repeated that they were heroic martyrs.

The Voice of Palestine referred to the victims of the shooting attack as "five settlers" without mentioning that the attack involved a pregnant women and four children who were first shot at a distance of several yards and then finished off from point blank range.

Michael Widlanski, who teaches at the Hebrew University's Rothberg School, is a former reporter for The New York Times, The Cox Newspapers, and The Boston Globe. He recently completed his doctorate on the political role of the Palestinian mass media.

 

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don't forget that israel kills children too. hardline palestinians and israelis are equally worthless.

 

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don't forget that israel kills children too. hardline palestinians and israelis are equally worthless.

and they call it a "Success"... Isreal kills a "leader" of their "opposition" and a few other children along with him and they say it was a "Success".

So "they`re both to blame" has some truth.

 

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give me a break. hamas leaders surround themselves with little kids because they are cowards who choose to use innocents as shields.

saying israel is equal to that of a masked gunment who randomly shoots a pregnant women and her 4 little girls is absolutely and totally absurd.

there is no logical comparison between the two.

 

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give me a break. hamas leaders surround themselves with little kids because they are cowards who choose to use innocents as shields.

saying israel is equal to that of a masked gunment who randomly shoots a pregnant women and her 4 little girls is absolutely and totally absurd.

there is no logical comparison between the two.

Tell that to BOTH families of the kids that were killed. Both sides are to blame.

 

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the families of the little Hamas shields should not be letting their leaders use their little children as a defense mechanism. the israeli family was gunned down, in cold blood, while sitting in their car and minding their own business.

 

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the families of the little Hamas shields should not be letting their leaders use their little children as a defense mechanism. the israeli family was gunned down, in cold blood, while sitting in their car and minding their own business.

"Hamas shields"? OK so Isreal knows they`re going to be killing children and do it anyway? I stand corrected, they`re not equal, Isreal is worse. They should hold themselves at a higher level than their "evildoers", which they don`t seem to be doing.

 

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"Hamas shields"? OK so Isreal knows they`re going to be killing children and do it anyway? I stand corrected, they`re not equal, Isreal is worse. They should hold themselves at a higher level than their "evildoers", which they don`t seem to be doing.

I think avoiding the conflict just because somebody put kids in the way would put the Isrealis at a major disadvantage. Sometimes tough decisions have to be made.......sometimes the decsion has to involve killing innocents in order to survive.

 

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I think avoiding the conflict just because somebody put kids in the way would put the Isrealis at a major disadvantage. Sometimes tough decisions have to be made.......sometimes the decsion has to involve killing innocents in order to survive.

This is exactly how the news seems to work. Someone makes a statement, then repeats it, then someone else answers a question pertaining to original statement, a third or fourth party makes another comment about the whole siituation MAKING THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT A FACT.

Now I don`t know if "kids as shlelds" is a fact or not, but this is how things get WAAAY out of control in the media. One statement, one comment, and little by little... it`s fact.

I don`t know any more past this point. I only like to deal with facts. We may never know them with the news coverage of our times. I`m surprised I was able to answer a couple of posts by Poink as he`s very knowlegable on these subjects.