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Politicizing Israeli Wildfires

The AFP and The Guardian, which republished the wire service’s story on the Israeli wildfires, can barely contain their excitement. AFP’s headline:     And The Guardian’s:     Yet while AFP’s headline emphasizes Jewish…

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The AFP and The Guardian, which republished the wire service’s story on the Israeli wildfires, can barely contain their excitement.

AFP’s headline:

 

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And The Guardian’s:

 

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Yet while AFP’s headline emphasizes Jewish settlers and The Guardian’s focus is the “occupied West Bank,” a significant part of the AFP story also covers major blazes in Haifa and the village of Nataf, neither of which are located in the West Bank. AFP, however, assumes that readers are fully versed on the geography of Israel, doing nothing to dispel the impression that all of the affected locations are in the “occupied West Bank.”

 

 

Are The Guardian and AFP completely incapable of avoiding linking anything and everything to the settlement issue, even devastating wildfires?

 

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