Sunday, March 06, 2005

The subtle way in which Palestinians are vilified when compared to Israelis is demonstrated in this paragraph from the New York Times:
In February, 13 Palestinians were killed, according to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. Most were militants, though teenage civilians were among the dead, Palestinians said. All five Israeli deaths came in the Tel Aviv bombing.

We are informed that "most" of the Palestinians are militants. We are told nothing of the fact that most of the Israeli dead were soldiers. Not that it particularly matters, but neither does it matter what portion of the Palestinian dead are militants, whatever that means. In fact, outside Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post I have seen no mention that the Israeli dead were anything other than civilians.

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