Palestinians Conduct Public Execution
October 23, 2003 17:34 by ManagingTeamDid this story (from the AP wire) make your local paper today?:
Palestinian gunmen kill suspected collaborators, display bodies
A source in Al Aqsa said the men had been kidnapped and interrogated by Islamic Jihad, but that the two groups had carried out the killings together “to share the honor.”…The bullet-riddled bodies were then dragged to the central square and propped up for camp residents to see, witnesses said. The bodies were displayed for about 15 minutes around 7 a.m., a time when residents are heading to work and children are on their way to school.
This is how “dissident behavior” is being handled by the Palestinian powers-that-be. Compare this with Israeli protest of government policy — which the world media are very careful to cover. That inbalance is simply unacceptable from responsible journalists. Kudos to AP for running the story…but how widely was it reprinted?
UPDATE: NY Times now has a lead article on the executions as well.
Tessa
8:04 pm
Feb 20, 2004
I, in no way, condon the execution or displaying of these men but my God, how can you be so naive?!
“Compare this with Israeli protest of government policy — which the world media are very careful to cover. That inbalance is simply unacceptable from responsible journalists.”
We hear almost NOTHING of any kind of protest against the Israeli government. We hear NOTHING of the Israeli government’s brutalization of Palestinian people, of the horrific apartied conditions that the Israeli government force Palestinians to live under, in their own land. Not to mention the underhanded manner in which they treat their own civilians, specifically those who happen to be Arab Israelies. I am not a muslim, nor am I jewish; I am an average christian woman who is sick to death of all this abhorently unjust treatment of the Palestinian people. Again, I am not excusing the brutality behind the actions of these “powers-that-be” but do you realise how many people – Jews, Christians and Muslims – are infuriated by what is happening in Palestine? And the “world media”, take a moment to investigate who really controls and owns these instruments of information. You have every right to be angered by crimes against humanity but, please, don’t use faulty and unbalanced sources as a platform for your argument.
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