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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:  16 May 96
REF:    Tom E. Friedman, NYT Weekly Review 12 May 96
Waiting for the Wild Card:  Israelis can choose peace or paralysis
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Tom E. Friedman, NYT Weekly Review 12 May 96

TEXT:  "Israel Radio opened its broadcast the other day on asimple note that every listener understood:  "Nothing hashappened, yet."

COMMENT:  Don't recall hearing that on English Radio News.

RECONSTRUCTION:

"This is Kol Israel, the Voice of Israel, broadcasting from theJerusalem.  Nothing has happened, yet.  The weather:  more of thesame.  Our next scheduled broadcast will be at ________. "

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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:  16 May 96
RE:    Qana
REF:   Newsweek 20 May 96  (Contreras)
CC:
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Ostensibly a neutral report; but it does not address the questionof a semantic obfuscation -- that the UN conflated intentionallyfiring at a target within margin-of-error radius of the UNposition, with deliberately firing at the UN position.

TEXT:  "The most damaging finding was that, at some pont duringthe artillery barrage, Israeli gunners shifted their sights fromthe suspecte Hizbollah position to the UN compound itself..  Thatled investigators to conclude that a technical error alone couldnot accouint for the shelling of the base."

COMMENT:  I'd not read that hitherto.  It sounds reasonable. Questions are: (1) What is the evidence; (2) is it true? (2) Ifit's true, what does it mean.        
	If the source is the IDF, and if IDF field-guns leave recordsof their settings, the way a jetliner does, that's one thing.  Ifthe source is a someone with a pair of binoculars, that'ssomething else.  If the meaning is that the field-gun waspreparing to fire in the direction it pointed, that's one thing;if it just means that the crew were observing in that direction,that's something else.

