I was able, on vacation, to watch international CNN and BBC news. Both news organizations, known for their anti-Semitism, were trying to be balanced in their reporting...partly because George Bush and many other global leaders made it clear that Hezbollah was a terrorist organization and Israel had a right of self-defense.
But even balanced reporting didn't work. The newscasts come off as showing the miserable Lebanese victims and the staunch Israelis surviving in their shelters.
The Israelis just have themselves to blame ....
The Israelis just have themselves to blame for this unbalanced outcome.
Arabs traditionally lie (this "innocent" family had a rocket launcher hidden in their bedroom), claim to be victims of everything from Israeli viciousness to George Bush's CIA conspiracy and this once-proud people are reduced to begging. (They have lived on U.S. and international welfare for fifty years without building anything for themselves.)
The Israelis on the other hand are being bombed and dying, but they are
confident, determined, strong, honest, caring and capable of continuing
to build the only green democracy in the desert of tyrants.
The Israelis don't need sympathy and CNN and BBC can't possibly evoke it. Respect would make sense, but journalists consider appreciation for a powerful Jewish nation to be unprofessional.
Footnote
Footnote to the previous blog. Has anyone noticed the similarities between the Lefties in Europe and the U.S. and the Arabs they sympathize with?
Both groups are explicitly miserable, both believe that money and foreign aid will solve their problems. Both groups are prone to believe in conspiracies, mostly George Bush conspiracies. Both groups are automatically anti-American.
Lastly, both groups live in some fantasy of the world that is unassailable with experience