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MEDIA BIAS
TO:  BAR-ILAN, EYE ON MEDIA, JLEM POST; CC: BEDEIN ISRAEL RESOURCE
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Haon, 15170; 06-757572; FAX: 06-757511
REF:   Newsweek 11/28/94 p29 (Bartholet "in Gaza")
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SUMBLIMINAL THEME:  
Israel is responsible for the PLO murder of Hamas fans in Gaza.

Boldface head:  'Just Like the Jews' [Half-quote in head]

lead sentences par. 2:  "Israel has been pushing Arafat to crackdown on Islamic militants ... .  But few expected so muchbloodletting...

"The fundamentalists never miss an opportunity {?!} to portrayArafat as litte more than an Israeli agent.
COMMENT:  Sloppy editorial standards of acceptable English make auseful cover for tendentious misrepresentation.



OTHER: 
"Palestinians regularly pass through the [Netzarim] checkpoint."
COMMENT:  As far as I know, this no longer serves as a checkpoint,at which vehicles are stopped and checked, but as a watch-post. If the writer thinks it's a checkpoint, he probably hasn't beenthere in the last few months. 

"When the Israeli soldiers at the post came ukndr ahils of stoneslast week, they twice retreated."
COMMENT:  Re this incident, the media seemed to be consistentlyinsinuating that the Israelis showed cowardice; size of the mob(and presence of weapons?) is not mentioned.

ANALYSIS:  
1)  The semi-quotes (of a quote which occurs half-way through thearticle) enable the journal to present a headline what wouldotherwise be deemed unacceptably openly anti-Semitic

2)  I don't think my ellipsis of the lst lead sentence ismisleading; I think it corresponds to what the reader would retainas the lst unit of thought.  
One knows that readers skim; it may be that a subliminal text canbe generated by carefully combining those parts on which readersfocus to create a subliminal text contrary to the literal text.
l2

(My favorite example of this was  (USA 70s, forget source;the subject was one of a relatively few USA women of realquality; X was a Pulitzer-prize winner & I forget Y (!)


                 "                    And then 
                    there was the man problem. 
                                   X  tore off
                    to  Cambodia  with  her as
                    did Y ... "                  
l1

In colloquial USAish  'tore off a piece etc.' is a relativelyrefined term for lovemaking;         Us  Yanks  do  love  our  
steaks. 
MEDIA BIAS
TO:  BAR-ILAN, EYE ON MEDIA, JLEM POST; CC: BEDEIN ISRAEL RESOURCE
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Haon, 15170; 06-757572; FAX: 06-757511
REF:   TIME 11/28/94,  "A bloody taste of civil war" Lisa Beyer"Gaza City" (with Dean Fisher/Cairo and Jamil Hamad, Gaza city
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COMMENT:  It's not clear how much time the lead writer spent inGaza.  

THEME:  One can't humanely ask the PA to take arms against Hamasmilitants, although that's what Israel does and wants.

TEXT:  "They answered the challenge from Gaza' Islamic militarnatsin precisely the same way that the Israeli occupiers had done --bluntly, and with lethal force."

COMMENT:  Block that colon (!):  with precision like that, whoneeds circumlocution.   It's, like, `contingent precison'.
REJOINDER:  Israeli military (if possibly not GSS) open-fireregulations permit lethal force only in life-threateningsituations and only after a specified sequence (however brief) ofwarnings.  
It is not clear that those restrictions applied to the PA "police"in this incident.    

TEXT:  "Said a long-faced [?] soldier at a checkpoint in GazaCity:  "Today we proved to all the Palestinians that what Hamassays about us is true:  that we are an instrument in the hands ofthe Israelis."
COMMENT:  Pretty literate response from a randomly selected 
long-faced dog-face.
The epithet 'long-faced', evocative of the US WWII term for USinfantry, 'dog-face' (Cf. eg Maudlin), is an 'emotive-directional'term; the US reader who encounters it will be sympathetic towardthe speaker -- the more so if his speech proves literate andhumane --  regardless of the factual content and implications ofthe speech.  
                                                
TEXT:  "Israel, in response to the violence, has limited thenumber of workers allowed to cross the border daily for work."
REJOINDER:  
Put this way, it could be characterized as collective punishment.
More precisely, after terrorist murders in Israel-katan by GazanPalestinians, the government blocked entry of relatively highrisk--terrorist classes of Gazans.


