The Daily Press · Newport News, Virginia · 1 January 2002
CP-2002-022
Don’t forget it’s an Israeli occupation
Ali Abed, Yorktown
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Transcribed from the clipping
“It was quite easy for the Israel lobby and our misguided media to mislead the American public into believing that the Palestinians were the victimizers rather than the victims in the recent spate of violence. Where was the media the week before the attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa?
Why didn’t the media show the body parts of the Palestinian children who were blown to pieces by an Israeli shell in Gaza?… The media needs to constantly remind its readers and viewers that the Israeli occupation is the root cause of the violence that takes place in Palestine.
Is it not odd that the word ‘occupation’ seems to be vanishing from the vernacular of reporters, editors, columnists and anchormen?”
Context added by this archive
A reader in Yorktown, Virginia, making a point about American newspapers in an American newspaper.
Cite this clipping
"Don’t forget it’s an Israeli occupation," The Daily Press, 1 January 2002, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-022. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-022
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