Heavy media coverage today of Palestinian anger at President Bush’s support for Sharon’s disengagement plan. Many journalists are far from neutral on this — consider this sentence from a Reuters report:
Sharon will fly home on Thursday armed with what he came to Washington for — U.S. “guarantees” he can flaunt in the face of opponents of his proposal.
‘Flaunt in the face of opponents’?! A neutral report would never portray a democratic national leader in such a derogatory manner.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, seeing the sum of all his people’s fears realized, immediately denounced the statement as unacceptable.
‘The sum of all [Palestinians’] fears’?! Hyperbole at its worst. This was a setback to the PA, but the loss of US support for the ‘right of return’ and American acceptance of large blocks of Israeli settlements are certainly not the ‘sum of all Palestinian fears.’
The article is by the same Jeffrey Heller mentioned in the blog entry below…
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