BJ Turner of Fort Smith, AR points us to her correspondence with the Dubai-based Gulf News, which is presently on the Gulf News letters page. See the ‘editor’s note’ at bottom:
Sad, but true
From Mrs. B. J. Turner, Arkansas, US
This letter definitely will fall on deaf ears and will not be published in the letters column. Nevertheless, I feel the need to write it. I find it amusing, pathetic, that you publish letters using the term “Israeli terrorist” yet you always edit mine when I write using the word “terrorist” in connection with certain Palestinian actions by substituting it with the word “militant”. And you call yourself “free” and “open-minded”.
I would be only too glad to write rebuttals to Messrs. Aluva and El Thaher’s letters (“Ground realities” and “Uprising” Gulf News, Online, June 8) but won’t because Gulf News edits my 100 word emails so heavily that I often don’t recognise my own writing. Shame on Gulf News for this censorship!
Editor’s note: Mrs. Turner should thank Gulf News for publishing her letters regularly, though she sends them from America. Every newspaper has a policy – and our policy towards all Palestinians is that they are freedom fighters. If Mrs. Turner does not like our policy, then she can stop writing to Gulf News.
