I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
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Two kinds of Palestinians?
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In a very confusing move, the State Department has decided that it will resettle almost 1,400 Palestinians in the United States due to their having spent recent years in one of the roughest refugee camps.
You may be forgiven for actually thinking that the rough refugee camps mentioned are in the West Bank or thereabouts… or that these Palestinians have had it rough at the hands of the Israelis… because, after all, isn’t that the picture that almost every major news organization paints so broadly?
Well, brace yourself: the Palestinians in question here are living in Iraq and have had it rough at the hands of the Iraqis, who hate them about as much as the rest of the Arab world hates them, and who isolate them in these perpetual refugee camps and refuse to integrate them about as much as the rest of the Arab world isolates them in perpetual refugee camps and refuses to integrate them.
And, now, apparently the State Department feels that they are in such dire straits that they should be resettled into the United States!
Who knew that there were actually two classes of Palestinian refugees?! And who would have thought that the ones in better conditions were the ones under control of the Israelis? And, isn’t it funny that with all these “tough times” they’ve apparently experienced, that not one news story was ever reported about them? Could it be because they were suffering at the hands of their Arab brothers and not supposedly at the hands of the Israelis?
The journalistic world continues the disgusting double standard… and the State Department plays hero and rides to the rescue (while for some bizarre reason still leaving the all the other refugees still sitting in their perpetual camps for I suppose a few more generations).