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Jenin comes to Lebanon. So where is the outcry?

Jonathan Kay
National Post

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Last week, the Lebanese army attacked a squalid Palestinian refugee camp that's become infested with Islamist suicide terrorists and guerilla fighters. On May 20, government troops surrounded the camp, with tanks and artillery pieces shelling it at close range. Army snipers gunned down anything that moved. At least 18 civilians were killed, and dozens more injured. Water and electricity were cut off. By week's end, much of the camp had been turned into deserted rubble. Thousands of terrified residents fleeing the camp reported harrowing stories of famished, parched families trapped in their basements.

How did the rest of the world react? The Arab League quickly condemned "the criminal and terrorist acts carried out by the terrorist group known as Fatah al-Islam," and vowed to "give its full support to the efforts of the army and the Lebanese government." EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana also condemned Fatah al-Islam, and declared Europe's "support" for Lebanon. And the UN Security Council called the actions of Fatah al-Islam "an unacceptable attack" on Lebanon's sovereignty. As for the Western media, most outlets ignored the story following the first flurry of news reports.

At this point, please indulge me by re-reading the first paragraph of this column -- except this time, substitute the world "Israeli" for "Lebanese" in the first sentence. Let's imagine what the world's reaction would be if the ongoing siege were taking place in Gaza or the West Bank instead of the Nahr al Bared refugee camp on the outskirts of Tripoli, Lebanon.

First of all, a flood of foreign journalists would descend on the camp to document Israel's cruelty and barbarism, and the story would remain front page news to this day. Al-Jazeera would be a 24/7 montage of grieving mothers swearing revenge on the Zionist butchers, and rumours would swirl of mass graves and poison gas. The Arab League, EU and United Nations would condemn Israeli aggression -- as would the editorial board of The New York Times. The Independent would dispatch Robert Fisk to embed with Fatah al-Islam. And the newspaper's cartoonist, Dave Brown, would produce another award-winning rendition of his signature theme: Jews eating Palestinian babies.

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So basically, in this scenario, the Lebanese government are 'ours', the good guys; and, as ever, the Palestinians get the shit kicked out of them and that's ok, under the banner of the 'war on terrorism'. So the western media is just dancing to the same tune-caller, who this time instructs them not to look too closely at what is happening in Lebanon right now.

I do see a bias in the coverage and the Nazi Post highlights it with

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become infested with Islamist suicide terrorists and guerilla fighters.

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Originally posted by kropotkin1951:
and you think the MSM is anti-Israel.

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Originally posted by Wade Tompkins:
You bet I do! The CBC, the Toronto Star, and the Globe and Mail/CTV are all virulently anti-semitic. The National Post and Global on the other hand present the Arab-Israeli conflict in a fair and ballanced manner, not demonizing one side or the other. As for the alternate press, like the Georgia Straight or Indymedia, very anti-semitic as well, but in a more totalitarian way.

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The National Post and Global are the same entity, both owned by the Asper family, who are Israeli-Canadian dual citizens. If you believe the other mainstream media sources are anti-semetic, you're going to be shocked if you get to stick around here.

[ 29 May 2007: Message edited by: Slumberjack ]

eta. Nice spin by the National Pest writer:

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Last week, the Lebanese army attacked a squalid Palestinian refugee camp that's become infested with Islamist suicide terrorists and guerilla fighters.

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Suicider Islamofascists attack dirty Palestinian camp! Nice. And they spelled "guerrilla" incorrectly.

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The CBC, the Toronto Star, and the Globe and Mail/CTV are all virulently anti-semitic. The National Post and Global on the other hand present the Arab-Israeli conflict in a fair and ballanced manner, not demonizing one side or the other. As for the alternate press, like the Georgia Straight or Indymedia, very anti-semitic as well, but in a more totalitarian way.

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Perhaps if you provide us with a few quotations here and a few quotations there, yout statements might earn some degree of credibility. But until then, they remain less credible than a "Two-Headed Snake Speaks Spanish" headline in "Globe".

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Originally posted by bohajal:

Perhaps if you provide us with a few quotations here and a few quotations there, yout statements might earn some degree of credibility.

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Here ya go. See, I'm not the only one who thinks the CBC, Toronto Star, and CTV/Globe Media are anti-semitic.

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As they gathered in corridors and meeting rooms overlooking the skaters on the Rideau Canal, Jews expressed their concern that news coverage and editorial comment is increasingly hostile to Israel -- especially in the wake of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Is it true? Certainly, among many delegates, there were familiar and specific complaints about the treatment Israel receives at the hands of the CBC, and some commentators at the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail.

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CBC Portrays Terrorist As Victim

September 6, 2006

Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s largely one-sided portrayal of the Israel-Lebanon crisis continued on Monday, September 4, when CBC’s Beirut correspondent, Nahlah Ayed, sympathetically profiled the family of a cold-blooded terrorist.

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[ 29 May 2007: Message edited by: Wade Tompkins ]

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Islamist militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon are facing an ultimatum to surrender or face further military action. The Lebanese government accuses Fatah al-Islam of having ties with al-Qaeda and the Syrian government. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins us to talk about another theory of who is backing the militant group - the Lebanese government itself, along with the United States. Last March, Hersh reported the U.S. and Saudi governments are covertly backing militant Sunni groups like Fatah al-Islam as part of an overarching foreign policy against Iran and growing Shia influence.

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Originally posted by Slumberjack:
Just seeing those Nazi Post links in red hurts the eyes. I'm thinking the outcry you asked about will be arriving soon.

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Here's a tip, Wade, since you're a newbie. Don't start duplicate threads on the same subject. It's very easy to find other threads on the same topic - it took me about five seconds glancing through the other thread topics in this section of the board to find it.