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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Uprising Without Explanation By Seth Ackerman "The Palestinians began the latest protests with old-style demonstrations. Then they started shooting at Israeli towns. Now they are attacking settlements. It's not at all clear what the next step will be, but every step seems to get bloodier." -- "Into the War Zone," Time (12/4/00) In war--especially the kind of war that has now broken out between Israel and the Palestinians--each side has its reasons. Not all reasons are equally valid, but in journalism both sides must be told, context and balance provided, and ultimately the audience should decide. When Israel is asked to explain the 300 Palestinians (compared with about 30 Israeli Jews) who have been killed in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, it generally responds that it has little choice but to defend its troops against Palestinians who attack with rocks, Molotov cocktails, even automatic weapons. And when Palestinians are asked why they persist in confronting Israel's soldiers, the reason is almost always the same: "The Israelis are occupying our land." But while Palestinian fuel bombs, rock-throwers and militias are in full view on American TV screens night after night, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land--continuous since 1967, condemned by the United Nations, and rejected as illegal by most of the world--is almost ethereal in its absence. It hovers over each report and yet almost never fully appears. The Time article quoted above never reports that Israeli settlements are built on occupied territory. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1055 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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