Reuters Whitewashes Arafat
July 5, 2012 11:09 by Pesach Benson
Digging up Yasser Arafat’s body and exhuming file photos of the terror boss have a lot in common. You can’t help but feel dirty looking at the results.
So if you want a sanitized photo essay of the “life and legacy of Yasser Arafat,” Reuters is for you.
Iconic images feature the PLO’s top dog with Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, at the White House, and flashing his fingers in a V.
Of course, there are other facets to the Arafat legacy which the Reuters staff left out. Images of Arafat with Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin would give a fuller, more balanced picture.
They just don’t fit with Reuters’s cleaner memories.
(Image of Arafat via Wikimedia Commons/Hans Jørn Storgaard Andersen)
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Reuters photo-essay whitewashes terrorist Arafat | Blogs about Israel aggregation
10:30 pm
Jul 05, 2012
[...] (h/t Lenny, also noted by Honest Reporting) [...]
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Ben
4:12 am
Jul 06, 2012
or the time when arafat was caught on tape ordering the death of a u.s. official (probably happened in more than one significant occasion)
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Neal Rudin
3:17 pm
Jul 06, 2012
This horrible little person destroyed the Palestinian cause and used it to extract
$8,000,000,000 from their future real and in some cases, worthy goals.
He is the one who built the walls and kept these people from having a viable future.
They no longer are involved with the tourist trade. A trade that has existed for
thousands of years. He, being an Egyptian, had no real ties to these people.
He used them for his own misshapen ego fulfillment…
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Phil Nussbaum
4:32 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Re: The Life & Legacy of Yaaser Arafat
Reuters,
Is this some kind of bad joke?
Where are all the pictures of Arafat with the monsters of this world – Khomeini, Sadam Hussein, Sheik Yassin (founder of Hamas).
Where the pictures of bombed busses and restaurants producing hundreds of fatalities and thousands of casualties all inspired and led by this ‘world leader of terrorism’.
Half the facts does not tell half the story, it misrepresents the story completely.
He achieved nothing, neither for his people nor humanity.
His only achievement – death and destruction.
This Arafat should be defamed, not acclaimed!
I look forward to your correction of this stain on Reuters reporting.
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Michael T
9:43 pm
Apr 04, 2013
Does any one really take Reuters News seriously any longer?
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JJFOX
12:52 am
Apr 05, 2013
Nobel Peace Prize Committee permanently discredited
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JJFOX
12:54 am
Apr 05, 2013
Much more accurate photo of Arafat!
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