Selective attention in the Middle East
12/10/2008
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One thing that becomes very apparent when you leave the US news media bubble is that Americans do not receive real news on conditions in Palestine.
When Palestinians are portrayed in the US news media its exclusively as poverty cases, malcontents, and “terrorists.”
The fact that Palestinians have a history and a culture, and that they were removed from their lands and orchards at gunpoint and herded into “refugee camps” is completely censored.
With dual US-Israeli citizen Rahm Emmanuel, son of a member of an Israeli group designated as terrorist by the British government, acting as Barrack Obama’s right hand man, this moral blindness is unlikely to change.
Here’s one of the stories you’ll never see on US TV.