I'm glad to see Western news services like Reuters and the Daily Mail are picking up on the desecration of two Palestinian Christian cemeteries in the West Bank village of Jiffna. I'm glad to see the journalists who pride themselves as "history's first draft" taking note of this hate act.
Unfortunately, it remains to be seen if the same journalists will give PA official Issa Kassissieh a free pass, after calling the desecration "an isolated act against Christian symbols."
As HonestReporting noted during the recent papal trip, the MSM has largely overlooked issue like:
- an anti-Christian pogrom as recently as 2005
- land theft
- the persecution of Christians in the PA and Gaza
- creeping fundamentalism
- the intimidation of Christian media
- forced conversions
- Christians frozen out of the Palestinian national dialogue
The only thing "isolated" about the attack was its overt nature — which Western correspondents couldn't ignore.
