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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David bar-Ilan, Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:
RE:    The Semantics of 'militant settlers'
REF:   BBC World Service, 3/6 05:51 GMT
CC:   David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron; 02-247803; 257303 
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The transition is from 'militant (adj.) settlers' to 'militantsettlers' (epithet) to 'militant-settlements' (epithet).

So from a position, held within the Israeli consensus, that Kachand Kach-like extremists must be disarmed and neutralized as athreat to Palestinian, one moves to the media-cliche thatpractically all settlers are militant, and then to the latest,typicially disingenous PLO position that all settlers should bedisarmed and all settlements disbanded.

 
