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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:  4/15/96
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REF:   Serge Schmemann, NYT Weekly Review 4/14/96
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SUMMARY:  Less anti-Israel than the writer usually is; I guess"the fix was in" this time, as it was with Rabin's deportation ofthe Hamas 3rd-string.  When the US-based media takes a break inbeating up on us, look behind you at what the government is up to.
Interesting because it shows how media-bias need not be blatantnor decisive, it can consist a number of nasty little digs that domore than tend to degrade, on a nearly subconscious level, theimage of Israel.

1) Title:  "Giving War a Chance" -- a bit of a dig at Israel
   
2)  "a dent anywhere in Israels' sense of security increases thesense of insecurity everywhere, among Israalis and Arabs alike". 
This must be another bitchy little dig, but I don't quite get thepoint.  I suppose it means we're control freaks who would bomb theworld back to the stone age if anyone sneezes on our perimeter.

3)  Uses the term 'Party of G-d' [hyphen mine] for the usual'Hizbollah'.  Does tend to make one feel a bit bad about droppingthe small missile through the office window of same.  It's anarguable translation, but since the Arabic term is now in theEnglish vernacular, it would seem more appopriate and precise,except maybe in a context of Graeco-Roman polytheism.
                                 
4)  "The message was clear:  Israel was on the warpath."
Goldarnit:  50 years of intilitrating Hollywood and the goyimstill cast us as the Indians.  Nobody says John Wayne went on thewarpath in Vietnam.  Wogs start at Calais and all that.  

5) "vintage Katuysha rockets" -- The subtext here is:  Goliath &David; Israel over-reacting again.  Like nuking a kid who cutacross your lawn on vintage Schwinn bicycle.  The `atmosphere'[not `connoation'; and I don't think Austin's 'perlocutionaryforce' is broad enough]  of "vintage" is:  belongs on the shelfwith the knick-knacks, couldn't hurt a fly.

6)  "the suicide bombings traced mostly to Hamas"
? "mostly" ? .
The writer does not explain his use of that qualifier.     

(7:  Does not consider that Hamas and Hizbollah may be consideredtentacles of the same movement, if not governments.).




