Security Fence Distortion
December 2, 2003 16:31 by ManagingTeamPhotos like this one from AP are everywhere these days, portraying the Israeli security fence as a massive wall:
But in fact, only 3% of the security fence will be made from concrete – in particularly vulnerable locations such as East Jerusalem (above) and adjacent to Kalkilya, where terrorists burrowed under the fence, shot and killed 7-year old Noam Leibovitch in her family car in June.
This is what 97% of the fence will look like:
And here it is as a graphic:
The fence – made necessary by three years of unceasing Palestinian terror – is a temporary, defensive measure. Its opponents have the media on their side in falsely presenting it as a new “Berlin wall” – after all, that makes for a far more dramatic news photo.
This is misleading journalism and it demands a response.
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John Dicks
11:05 pm
Dec 05, 2003
Every official of the UN and the EU has been deliberately lying for years now when it speaks about Israel. Whether it is anti semitism or plain stupidity I do not know. The press in most countries is as dishonest – probably in deference to their large muslim readership.
Eventually of course the antisemites will themselves be attacked by the fascist mobs they now promote.
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John Dicks
11:05 pm
Dec 05, 2003
Every official of the UN and the EU has been deliberately lying for years now when it speaks about Israel. Whether it is anti semitism or plain stupidity I do not know. The press in most countries is as dishonest – probably in deference to their large muslim readership.
Eventually of course the antisemites will themselves be attacked by the fascist mobs they now promote.
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