It’s important that people are made aware of the attempted bombing of a Haifa shopping mall on Saturday evening. The terrorists intended this to be a major catastrophe. The mall was crowded with post-Shabbat shoppers and movie-goers. Thank goodness the attempted attack was foiled.
With a few exceptions, the British media has paid scant attention to the attempted bombing. Journalists and commentators here are far too busy frothing at the mouth about the suggestions of IDF misdemeanours in Gaza, (suggestions which are being steadily discredited incidentally).
It is a familiar equation:
Shaky reports of Israel doing something bad = blanket coverage and discussion across the UK media.
Concrete reports of Israel’s enemies doing something bad = virtual silence in the UK media.
It is an equation that feeds the growing anti-Israel hatred in these shores. Each of us can make a difference by doing our bit to redress the balance. When rockets are fired from Gaza, let people know. When terrorists try and slaughter shoppers in Haifa, let people know. When reports of Israeli “war crimes” are subsequently disproved, let people know.
Make sure people know what Israel is up against.
completely right.
Can I offer this link to that people can tell ‘their’ networck *just how bad* the bombing was intended to be?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073099.html
it gives some info to start with, for those who aren’t already aware.
This was designed to cause maximum death and destruction: a huge bomb, in a busy mall, just after Shabbat.
Once again it’s the little people making the big effort at Hasbara. Chas – you’re an asset, and we shouldn’t take anything away from your efforts. But it still leaves several questions… Where’s the Israeli ‘propaganda’ machine? Where’s the voice from the embassy in London? Why are they always on the defensive instead of being out there shouting from the tops of their buildings and telling the world how it really is on a daily basis?
Chas:
Over at Z-word blog, Terry Glavin sums it up very precisely (Jews behaving badly):
Our newspapers are not filled with the preliminary results of any Hamas investigation into the circumstances of the dozens of innocent Palestinian women and men whose eyes were gouged out, or who were otherwise tortured, dismembered, crippled and executed by Hamas during those same horrible weeks. If there is a “double standard” at work here, there it is.