Balanced reporting, AFP style
At least they're less biased than Press TV (Iran), which published the picture at top left (can you tell from the picture at left that the person who is either starting - or trying to put out - the fire is a 'settler'?) and claimed that 'settlers' had burned 'hundreds' of olive trees in the 'West Bank.'But AFP could not tell a balanced story that noted doubtful 'Palestinian' claims that Israelis burned their olive trees - balanced against the fact that no incidents of burning trees were reported by the 'Palestinians' or anyone else - without throwing in an unsubstantiated accusation against Israelis that was left hanging.
Since the start of the olive harvest last month, there have been scores of Palestinian complaints about settlers cutting down trees, stealing olives or preventing farmers from harvesting their crops, rights groups and police say.There has not been a single 'recent' instance in which Jews have been shown to have burned mosques or anything else. However, the 'Palestinians' and their Leftist supporters have been caught on video burning fields and trees.
A senior Israeli intelligence officer acknowledged that there had been acts of violence and vandalism by Jews in the West Bank, noting in particular recent attacks against mosques there.
"We are not happy about the situation connected with Jewish extremists in the West Bank," he told a group of foreign journalists on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"It needs big efforts in order to stop this wave of violence. We know who are these people. Hopefully we will be able to stop this wave of violence", he added.
Tell that to AFP.
Labels: arson, media bias, olive trees, Press TV
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:21 AM
1 Comments:
Yup.
Just don't look for the world to be interested in hearing the truth about the autumn harvest in Yesha any time soon.
What could go wrong indeed
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